Sharon A. Kuhn is an Emotional Intelligence Trainer who coaches executives and leaders in optimizing their own and their teams’ unique potential. She is the author of Empathy: A Guide to Maximizing Human Potential where she introduces the idea of Unique EQ. Sharon is a member of the Forbes Coaches Council and is certified in the Working Genius Assessment, an affiliate of Table Group Consulting.
Highlights:
- Sharon shares the brain science that gives us our sense of self-esteem and what she means by Unique EQ.
- When we can share with people states of mind or reflect their state of mind, that releases oxytocin and causes them to feel more confident.
- We are all trying to gather the strength that we have within to interpret other people and to be seen and interpreted by them.
- When Sharon works with teens in corporate, people are often reticent about looking at the internal issues.
- Emotion is a physical response to an internal or external stimulus.
- What the body wants most is the feeling of connection. Relationship is our drug of choice.
- Love is the most powerful thing that we can use to help people move forward.
- Your empathy releases brain chemicals of belonging in the other person.
- When someone else is feeling our feelings, they are, in effect managing our stress.
- As a leader, I can feel people’s emotions, but I don’t get sucked into their feelings. I’m able to stay true to myself.
- There are logical ways of coordinating with others so we are emotionally synchronistic.
- The more we understand ourselves, the less fearful we are.
- Sharon talks about reflective listening and mirroring.
- We must experience the chemicals of connection in order to thrive and survive.
- The feedback that we get from one another is shaping our brains daily.
- The brain often becomes disorganized as a result of confusing experiences.
- The more we identify with each other, the more we draw out our true self.
Links:
Sharon’s site
Sharon’s Book: Empathy: A Guide to Maximizing Human Potential