Leadership Step 0

Outcomes

To achieve Step 0, learners will need to be able to identify their feelings about something – whether positive or negative. This is the first step for Leadership and focuses on building empathy as an important foundation for being able to lead others.

Learners need to be able to:

• Know what different emotions might look and feel like

• Recognise positive and negative emotions, and what might cause them

Introduction

• An emotion is a strong feeling that is caused by something that is happening. 

• There are broadly two different types:

  • Positive emotions make us feel good, and that we want to continue to feel like this, such as being happy, excited or calm.

  • Negative emotions make us feel bad, and we want to stop feeling like this, like feeling sad, angry or scared.

Teach & Apply

• An emotional response is how we feel about something that has happened. We often have an emotional response before you we have time to think about what has fully happened.

• People sometimes call this our ‘gut reaction’.

• If you think something is a good thing, you will typically have a positive emotional response. If something is a bad thing, you will typically have a negative emotional response

Reflection & Assessment

Embed these strategies across your teaching and coaching to help learners apply what they’ve learnt.

• Begin each session with an opportunity for learners to reflect on how they are feeling, using coloured cones/visual prompts if appropriate.

Use these ideas for ways of assessing this skill step to help you check learners’ understanding and confidence.

• Praise good non-verbal communication to show how they are feeling, e.g. smiling to show they are happy.

• Ask these reflective questions:

  • What are different emotions?

  • When do you feel different emotions?

  • Can you give examples of what has caused different emotions for you?