Reiner Lomb: How Understanding Emotions Can Enhance Leadership Skills – TPS510

Reiner Lomb is the Founder of BoomerangCoach, an executive coaching firm specializing in leadership and career development, innovation, and transformational change. Reiner’s mission is to mobilize and develop leaders to create a more sustainable and positive future for all.  Before becoming an executive coach, Reiner had a 30-plus year career in technology, started and developed software businesses, and led leadership development. Reiner’s new book is ASPIRE: Seven Essential Emotions for Leading Positive Change, No Matter Where You Are.

Highlights

• Reiner Lomb explains how his upbringing on a farm in Germany led him eventually to do the work with emotions he’s doing now.
• Leaders are often well developed intellectually but not emotionally. He explains how, when he first introduced the concept 15 years ago, he had to approach the topic of emotions very carefully.
• Reiner tells how he developed trust with teams so they would accept the idea of working on emotions.
• Family is the first team we get to work with.
• Reiner recounts that he went back to school to learn more about psychology and brain science.
• When you become aware of where your emotions began, you can decide to change your emotional expression.
• People often believe that emotions happen automatically and that they can’t change, which is not true.
• We talk about various aspects of empathy and how important it is in order to understand where people are coming from.
• Assume good intentions. Most people have good intentions, but they may come from a different value framework than you.
• Once Reiner assesses a person’s emotional state through observation, he can decide which direction to go in with them.
• Reiner talks about the seven emotions he mentions in his book.
• A foundation of leadership is developing interest in the people you’re leading and to help them develop a better vision of the future.
• Inspiration is one of the most powerful leadership tools.

Links

Reiner Lomb’s site

ASPIRE: Seven Essential Emotions for Leading Positive Change, No Matter Where You Are

Reiner Lomb on LinkedIn