"John was fantastic! His impact - every coaching session I walked away from I felt empowered and confident that I will do better going forward in life. John always sounded very high energy, positive and receptive. His questions made me think and they also lead me into a few personal discoveries about myself as a person."

Check out this link from The Center for Conflict Dynamics for a very interesting and informative blog about "Generational Conflict" - http://www.conflictdynamics.org/cdp/blog/
This is something that more and more people are becoming aware of in the workplace as the differences between 'Boomers' in managerial positions and 'Gen X' can contribute to conflict at work.
John uses the Conflict Dynamics Profile to help his clients become more comfortable and competent to deal with conflict. Contact us to find out more!

“Who’s more empathetic? Men or women? The politically correct answer is to say neither – that empathy depends on the individual. And to a large extent, that’s true. But a growing body of research has begun making that politically correct view untenable. Dozens of studies, for instance, have shown that women are generally better at reading facial expressions and at detecting lies....The female brain is predominantly hard-wired for empathy. The male brain is predominantly hard-wired for understanding and building systems.”

Daniel Pink (from "A Whole New Mind") continues by referencing a Cambridge University psychologist, Simon Baron-Cohen and his own book "The Essential Difference" where he states that “...not all women have ‘female’ brains and not all men have ‘male’ brains. But he (Baron-Cohen) marshals an array of support for his central point: that more males than females have brains that systematize and that more females than males have brains that empathize...Systematizing involves exactness, excellent attention to local detail and an attraction to fixed rules independent of context...to systematize, you need detachment...But empathizing is different. To empathize, you need some degree of attachment in order to recognize that you are interacting with a person, not an object, but a person with feelings, and whose feelings affect your own. Empathy he says involves inexactness...attention to the larger picture...context (a person’s face, voice, action and history are all essential information in determining that person’s mental state) with no expectation of lawfulness...The male brain sounds a little like L-Directed Thinking. And the female brain sounds a lot like the high-concept, high-touch approach of R-Directed Thinking.”

He concludes to say that we need both – “Sometimes we need detachment; many other times we need attunement. And the people who will thrive will be those who can toggle between the two. As we’ve seen again and again, the Conceptual Age requires androgynous minds.”

Visit http://ezinearticles.com/?id=1838712 to read "Coaching With Emotional Intelligence".