Emotional Intelligence

Emotional Intelligence Assessment

The MIT Center for Collective Intelligence reports that groups with the greatest Social Perceptiveness have been found to have the highest collective intelligence. This empowers them to make better decisions that lead to the best overall performance.   Social perceptiveness can be described as having an understanding of other’s verbal and non verbal behavior and actions. This can include the ability to interpret a combination of what others are saying as well as their tone of voice, body language, gestures and facial expressions. Being socially perceptive is important in all social settings, including the workplace. Similar terms include social intelligence and interpersonal intelligence.
The EQ-i 2.0 is a highly regarded instrument in the industry that has been scientifically validated and proven to be an accurate assessment of both individual and group emotional and social functioning. It has been used by all branches of the US military since the 1990’s. This instrument was updated and further refined in 2011, making it the most up-to-date scientifically proven instrument on the market.

The EQ-i 2.0 Assessment reports 22 separate scores to provide the utmost clarity in your results empowering you to focus on those areas that will provide the greatest return for your effort.  Participants will receive an overall emotional intelligence score, a well-being or happiness score, a score for each of the five main categories and a separate score for each of the 15 sub-scales as outlined below:

  • Decision Making
    • Problem Solving – The ability to find solutions to problems in situations where emotions are involved.  It includes the ability to understand how emotions impact decision making.
    • Reality Testing – The capacity to remain objective by seeing things as they really are.  It involves recognizing when emotions or personal bias can cause us to be less objective.
    • Impulse Control – The ability to resist or delay an impulse, drive or temptation to act and involves avoiding rash behaviors in decision making.
  • Stress Management
    • Flexibility – Adapting emotions, thoughts and behaviors to unfamiliar, unpredictable, and dynamic circumstances or ideas.
    • Stress Tolerance – Involves coping with stressful or difficult situation and believing that one can manage or influence situations in a positive manner.
    • Optimism – An indicator of our positive attitude and outlook on life.  It involves remaining hopeful and resilient, despite occasional setbacks.
  • Interpersonal
    • Interpersonal Relationships – The skill of developing and maintaining mutually satisfying relationships that are characterized by trust and compassion.
    • Empathy – Recognizing, understanding, and appreciating how other people feel.  Empathy involves being able to articulate your understanding of another’s perspective and behaving in a way that respects others’ feelings.
    • Social Responsibility – Willingly contributing to society, to one’s social groups, and generally to the welfare of others.  It involves acting responsibly, having social consciousness, and showing concern for the greater community.
  • Self-Expression
    • Emotional Expression – Openly expressing our feelings verbally and non-verbally.
    • Assertiveness – Involves communicating feelings, beliefs and thoughts openly, and defending personal rights and values in a socially acceptable, non-offensive, and non-destructive manner.
    • Independence – The ability to be self directed and free from emotional dependency on others.  Decision-making, planning, and daily tasks are completed autonomously.
  • Self-Perception
    • Self-Regard – Respecting our self while understanding and accepting our own strengths and weaknesses.  (Also referred to as self-confidence and feelings of inner strength.)
    • Self-Actualization – The willingness to persistently try to improve our selves and engage in the pursuit of personally relevant and meaningful goals and objectives that lead to a rich and enjoyable life.
    • Emotional Self-Awareness – Recognizing and understanding our own emotions.  This includes the ability to differentiate between subtleties in our own emotions while understanding the cause of these emotions and the impact they have on our own thoughts and actions and those of others.

Click each tab below to see additional information for each assessment option.

The best leaders aren’t just born that way, they work at it in much the same way as an Olympic athlete.  Continuously, honing their skills and stretching beyond their comfort zone to be their best every single day.  In order to be their best, they ask for and routinely receive feedback.

The EQ-i 2.0 Leadership report is set at a higher standard than the Workplace report.  It provides a snapshot of how your Emotional Intelligence skills compare to other leaders.  It offers leadership development insight tailored to your assessment results.

It provides the five composite scores plus each subscale, an overall Emotional Intelligence score, your Well-Being Indicator or Happiness score, and the Leadership Bar.  The gold Leadership Bar represents the range of scores of the top leaders.  Top Leaders were deemed those whose EQ-i 2.0 scores were in the top 50% of the leader sample.  Using the gold Leadership Bar enables you to compare your results to those exceptional leaders who demonstrate high emotional intelligence.

You will receive a 27 page report loaded with valuable information that you can use as the foundation for your leadership development efforts.  To be clear, since we are all human, by definition, we cannot be perfect and therefore are in constant need of growth and development. The good news is that we can all improve our emotional intelligence skills, regardless of our age.  We just need to be willing and dedicated to the effort.

The images below (and on the other tabs in this section) are intended to show you how straight forward and easy it is to read and use the report.  There is so much information in it that you will want to refer to it repeatedly while working towards your leadership development goals .  As you learn and grow different aspects of the report will have new meaning to you over time.   Leaders serious about enhancing their skills can expect to have different ah-ha moments each time they review their report.

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The Leadership 360 report incorporates your responses from the EQ-i 2.0 Leadership Report and the responses from your feedback raters.   It is a multi-rater measure of emotional intelligence designed to provide you with a complete 360-degree view of your emotional and social functioning.  It enables you to compare how you see yourself to how others see you.

Raters can be Managers, Peers, Direct Reports, Family/Friends, or Others.  Aside from you Manager, there must be at least three respondents in each rater group. Once this information is tabulated, you will be able to clearly see areas where your perceptions of your behavior agree with the people in your life and, more importantly, the blind spots where you may be getting in your own way of success.

This is a 31 page report packed with eye opening information designed to shine a new light on your world.  To support your efforts to improve and grow in your leadership role.  To help you reach your goals and realize your dreams.  The images below (and in the other tabs in this section) are intended to give you some insight into the report’s ease of use.

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The Executive Team of an organization plays a critical role in it’s overall success.  They serve as the role models and guiding light for every member of the organization.  As the research from the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence reveals, Social Perceptiveness is the single most important factor for high Collective Intelligence.

The Group Report combines the individual EQ-i 2.0 reports for the leadership team to reveal their combined emotional intelligence scores. Each leader can then compare the team results to their individual leadership report to gain insight in to how they may be helping or hindering the executive team’s success.

The individual leadership reports, combined with the leadership 360 reports, and a Executive Team Report combine to provide the organization with some powerful information for both individual and organizational emotional intelligence performance improvement opportunities. If your Executive Team displays symptoms of dysfunctional behavior, consider using these scientifically proven tools to reveal the root causes and address those issues so your organization doesn’t become another business failure statistic.

The Group Report provides 5 pages of straight forward information that gets to the heart of the matter by providing a breakdown of the executive team’s combined emotional intelligence assessments, an executive summary of the highest three and lowest three sub-scales, and strategies for action.  The following images (and those found on other tabs in this section) are intended to provide you with insight into the ease of  use of these reports.

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The Individual Workplace Report provides an excellent foundation for understanding your emotional intelligence scores.  It empowers you to focus your energy on those areas that will provide the greatest benefits in your transition to becoming your best self.

The 21 page Individual Workplace Report provides:

  • A summary of the EQ-I 2.0 model
  • 21 emotional intelligence scores on a single page for easy review and comparison
  • A full page explanation of your Well-Being or happiness indicator
  • A concise and meaningful summary for each of the fifteen subscales including:
    • An explanation of what that particular score means
    • The potential emotional, social, and behavioral implications that particular subscale may have at work
    • Strategies for Action
    • Suggestions for balancing that subscale with other subscales to realize the best results
  • A Personal Development Goals Worksheet
  • An Action Plan Worksheet

The following images (and those on other tabs in this section) are intended to demonstrate this reports’ ease of use.

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The Individual Workplace 360 report incorporates your responses from the EQ-i 2.0 Individual Workplace Report and the responses from your feedback raters.   It is a multi-rater measure of emotional intelligence designed to provide you with a complete 360-degree view of your emotional and social functioning.  It enables you to compare how you see yourself to how others see you.

Raters can be Managers, Peers, Direct Reports, Family/Friends, or Others.  Aside from you Manager, there must be at least three respondents in each rater group. Once this information is tabulated, you will be able to clearly see areas where your perceptions of your behavior agree with the people in your life and, more importantly, the blind spots where you may be getting in your own way of success.

This 42 page report is packed with eye opening information designed to shine a new light on your world.  To support your efforts to becoming your best self.  To help you reach your goals and realize your dreams.

The images below (and in the other tabs in this section) are intended to give you some insight into the report’s ease of use.

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Organizations are filled with teams and each plays an essential role in its overall success.  It’s common for workplace teams to struggle with communication and collaboration issues.  An examination of the individual and combined team emotional and social functions can provide a starting place for addressing dysfunctional behavior.

The Group Report combines the individual workplace EQ-i 2.0 reports for team members to reveal their combined emotional intelligence scores. Each person can then compare the team results to their individual workplace report to gain insight in to how they may be helping or hindering the team’s success.

The individual workplace reports, 360 reports, and a team report combine to provide the organization with some powerful information for both individual and organizational emotional intelligence performance improvement opportunities. If your team displays symptoms of dysfunctional behavior, consider using these scientifically proven tools to reveal the root causes and address those issues to improve your organization’s performance.

The Group Report provides 5 pages of straight forward information that gets to the heart of the matter by providing a breakdown of the team’s combined emotional intelligence assessments, an executive summary of the highest three and lowest three sub-scales, and strategies for action.  The following images (and those found on other tabs in this section) are intended to provide you with insight into the ease of  use of these reports.

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