CHAPTER 5
Responsive Awareness
Responsive awareness is a strategy that brings together two core skills—being fully, consciously, aware and then taking action based on that awareness. This ESE strategy calls for a powerful integration—choosing responses based on well-developed awareness. In a simple, logical way, this strategy requires taking emotionally informed action. Responsive awareness is an emotional and social effectiveness strategy that goes for the gold by peeling back layers of understanding and taking integrated action, often responding to a complex myriad of factors, as we’ll explore in this chapter.
So how do you as a coach work with your clients to get to this deepened response level? While there is no magic wand; there are ...

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