Relationship among emotional intelligence, soar, and team-based collaboration: Implications for a strengths, opportunities, aspirations, and results (soar) based approach to coaching psychology

Abstract

The aim of this chapter is to provide a theoretical overview of SOAR, a strengths-based framework with a whole-system (stakeholder) approach to strategy that focuses on strengths, opportunities, aspirations, and results, and to consider implications for its use within coaching psychology research and practice. We first present the results of an empirical study in which SOAR was found to mediate the relationship between emotional intelligence (EI) and team-based collaboration among team leaders but not team members. In finding that SOAR differentially mediated the EI-collaboration relationship in team leaders rather than team members, we suggest that SOAR may help a coach create a reservoir of positivity to support new ideas, innovations, and the best in people to emerge and thrive. We discuss how a SOAR-based coaching process may facilitate a coach's ability to promote performance enhancement through a results-oriented approach focusing on the coachee's strengths, opportunities, and aspirations.