Coaching practices for Implicit Emotional Knowledge
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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- People keep asking me how I just know the right call in my work, and I freeze
- I’ll snap at someone or make a bad call and only realize hours later that I was already in a mood the whole time
- There’s a subtle difference I can feel instantly
- On paper this is the obviously rational call, but there’s a gut unease about it nobody will say out loud because we can’t justify it logically
- I just nailed something hard and in that exact moment I can feel what I did and why, but by the next day it’s slipped away and all I’ve got left is a tidy story that misses the real thing
Practices that may help
- Elicit your own tacit knowledge by working through cases
Use concrete case analysis to surface the implicit rules you already follow but cannot state.
Tacit Knowledge: The Skill You Can’t Fully Explain - Self-awareness
Notice your emotions as they arise and recognize how they shape your judgment and behavior.
Emotional Intelligence, Made Practical - Develop a shared vocabulary for tacit distinctions
Name the subtle distinctions you can detect but not yet explain — giving a word to a perception accelerates its transfer.
Tacit Knowledge: The Skill You Can’t Fully Explain - Red hat: name the emotions without justifying them
Give feelings a legitimate place in the discussion — the red hat makes emotional data explicit so it stops running covertly.
Six Thinking Hats, Made Practical - Externalize tacit knowledge through structured reflection after performance
Immediately after a performance, narrate what you did and why — to capture the living rule before it fades.
Tacit Knowledge: The Skill You Can’t Fully Explain - Empathy
Accurately read and take seriously what other people are feeling.
Emotional Intelligence, Made Practical - Build mindsight by reflecting inner experience
Describe your own inner experience in everyday conversation to build the child’s "mind-seeing" capacity.
The Whole-Brain Child (Siegel & Bryson) - Tacit Knowledge: The Skill You Can’t Fully Explain
Tacit knowledge, coined by Michael Polanyi, is the practical know-how embedded in action and performance that cannot be fully articulated — "we know more than we can tell." Expert cyclists cannot fully explain how they balance; experienced coaches cannot completely verbalize what tells them a client is ready to shift. Developing tacit knowledge requires practice-based immersion rather than instruction, and transferring it requires close apprenticeship rather than documentation. - Articulate the cues that triggered your recognition
Name what you noticed that made the situation feel familiar — this tests the recognition and transfers it.
Recognition-Primed Decision Making - Feeling of Knowing: Why Your Confidence Misleads You
The feeling of knowing (FOK) is a metacognitive judgment about whether you would recognize or recall information you cannot currently retrieve — the "I know it but can’t say it" experience. Janet Metcalfe’s research shows FOK judgments are often accurate for recognition but systematically overestimate actual recall ability, leading learners to stop studying material they feel they know but cannot actually retrieve.
Related concerns
- Tacit Knowledge The Skill You Can T Fully Explain As A Parent
Tacit knowledge, coined by Michael Polanyi, is the practical know-how embedded in action and performance that cannot be fully articulated — "we know more than we can tell." Expert cyclists cannot fully explain how they balance; experienced coaches cannot completely verbalize what tells them a client is ready to shift. Developing tacit knowledge requires practice-based immersion rather than instruction, and transferring it requires close apprenticeship rather than documentation.
- Apprenticeship Tacit Knowledge Transfer
Tacit knowledge, coined by Michael Polanyi, is the practical know-how embedded in action and performance that cannot be fully articulated — "we know more than we can tell." Expert cyclists cannot fully explain how they balance; experienced coaches cannot completely verbalize what tells them a client is ready to shift. Developing tacit knowledge requires practice-based immersion rather than instruction, and transferring it requires close apprenticeship rather than documentation.
- Community Of Practice Tacit Knowledge
Embed yourself in a group of practitioners — shared tacit knowledge circulates through collaboration and culture, not documentation.
Participate in a community of practice to absorb shared tacit knowledge
- Elicit Tacit Knowledge
Tacit knowledge, coined by Michael Polanyi, is the practical know-how embedded in action and performance that cannot be fully articulated — "we know more than we can tell." Expert cyclists cannot fully explain how they balance; experienced coaches cannot completely verbalize what tells them a client is ready to shift. Developing tacit knowledge requires practice-based immersion rather than instruction, and transferring it requires close apprenticeship rather than documentation.
- Externalize Tacit Knowledge
Tacit knowledge, coined by Michael Polanyi, is the practical know-how embedded in action and performance that cannot be fully articulated — "we know more than we can tell." Expert cyclists cannot fully explain how they balance; experienced coaches cannot completely verbalize what tells them a client is ready to shift. Developing tacit knowledge requires practice-based immersion rather than instruction, and transferring it requires close apprenticeship rather than documentation.
- Immersive Learning Tacit Knowledge
To develop know-how you cannot be taught, you must perform it repeatedly in authentic contexts.
Acquire tacit knowledge through extended immersive practice
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