Football Requires Emotional Intelligence

Emotional intelligence is as essential to winning at sports as it is to winning in everything else in life. Whether you're after the Big Win in career, school, marriage, aging, stress, or retirement ... IQ gets you through school. EQ (emotional intelligence) gets you through life. And the good news is that emotional intelligence can be learned.

"EQ in sports?" you say.

Ever watch someone in a tennis match 'psych out' the opponent? Long time-outs, arguing about calls, taking too long to serve, acting sick or injured, anything to prolong, distract ... or serving with strange sounds?

One of the ways I increased my understanding of emotional intelligence so I could teach it to others, was accompanying my cousin, the tennis pro, to matches. "It's a head game," he would tell me. Well, it's an emotional game, too. If you watch teenagers play, you see clearly that until and unless they can control their emotions, they are going to lose matches they should have won. Their emotional reactions -- their weaknesses -- will be studied by their opponents and used against them, just as surely as they'll learn where to place the serve. It's a game of skill, and part of the skill is identifying and using the other's weaknesses.

Well latest on the emotional intelligence bandwagon is the Kentucky State University football team. They're working with Dr. Dennis Rader, a professor at KSU, who says he's not a sports psychologist but an emotional intelligence coach.

Wonder if he's gotten his EQ coach certification** yet ...

I've trained and certified EQ coaches with many different backgrounds, who plan to use it in many various ways. An MBA who spcializes in business communication. An equine specialist who teaches EQ through horses. A therapist who wanted to add emotional intelligernce to her mix. A manager who just knew she needed it. A minister who had been asked to prepare himself to teach emotional intelligence at seminary. An entrepreneur who wanted to be a coach and knew that emotional intelligence applied to any problem, and held the solution to any issue a coaching client could present. And I've trained and certified coaches all over the world - Malaysia, the Philippines, UK, Scotland, Wales, Beijing, India ... all over the US, of course.

Head football coach Fred Farrier's football team is still working toward winning its first Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference championship (see article here: State-Journal.com http://www.state-journal.com/news/article/2305711) and the coach felt workshops would assist the team to overcome barriers and achieve success, so started to work with Dr. Rader. Coach Farrier is quoted in the article as saying, "We wanted to try to help our team find a way to finish projects and work around obstacles. We felt like if we were able to identify some of those issues we could work through those issues."

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