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1The analytically dominant executive who describes every emotional state as 'stressed'
Context
A 46-year-old VP of engineering at a software company comes to coaching sessions well-prepared, process-oriented, and precise about technical matters. When asked about his emotional state, he uses three words interchangeably: stressed, fine, frustrated. He is not being evasive — his emotional vocabulary is genuinely limited to high-level categories. The Wheel of Emotions gives him a taxonomy built for this problem: it starts with his broad labels and maps them outward to increasingly specific emotional territory.
How to Introduce
The engineering framing is an asset here. 'You work with precision every day — you know there's a difference between a 4...
2The client processing a demotion who says she's 'over it' but clearly isn't🔒
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3 coaching scenarios with introduction language, observation guides, debrief maps, and red flags
