People skills account for 80% of your success. Develop yourself. Be better.

Very simply, Emotional Intelligence is the ability to identify, use, understand and manage emotions – yours and other people. While IQ gives you your intellectual ability, EI is your social ability and study after study shows that as much as 45% of your success depends on your people skills.  It is not what you know but what you do with what you know.

Daniel Goleman, psychologist, brought Emotional Intelligence into the collective consciousness. He  defined the following 5 elements of EI:

1. Self-Awareness.  Understanding and knowing your emotions, willing to look within and make the changes necessary to perform your best, trusting intuition, having an inventory of strengths and weaknesses are all part of being self aware. This may be the most important element of EI.
2. Self-Regulation.  Do you control yourself emotionally? Think before you act? Avoid swings of emotion – not too angry or jealous or hurt? Characteristics of self-regulation are thoughtfulness, comfort with change, integrity, and the ability to say no.
3. Motivation.  Are you able to  work for the long term gain and defer immediate gratification? Highly productive, embraces the challenge, and effective are characteristics of the motivated individual.
4. Empathy.  Do you identify with and understand the wants, needs, and viewpoints of those around you? Do you know the difference between sympathy and empathy? Sympathy is  “feeling one’s pain.”  In our coaching and training, we help you engage the heart’s intelligence and enhance your ability to empathize without draining you in the process.  As you develop greater empathy you become good at communication, relationships, avoiding stereotyping and judging too quickly.
5. Social Skills.   Are you easy to talk to? Are you a team player and interested in helping others?

People Skills Determine Your Success

The EQi 2.0 is a great tool to build awareness and develop strengths in the individual and the overall team and culture of your organization. Emotionally intelligent people communicate effectively, form strong relationships and create powerful coping strategies; emotionally unintelligent people don’t—no matter how high their IQs. Emotional Intelligence can be measured—more reliably and less controversially than IQ—and, unlike IQ, it can be substantially strengthened and developed.

Taking the assessment is convenient, takes 20 minutes and is accessed online. The Feedback session is provided individually with ongoing coaching as needed.

Details on the EQi

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The following are applications for the assessment of Emotional Intelligence:

Selection and Succession Used in conjunction with existing evaluation criteria (experience, qualifications, interview results), properly interpreted Emotional Intelligence test scores provide unprecedented predictability. You will better know whom to hire and whom to promote, have better success aligning the right people with the right jobs, and achieve greater clarity in planning for the succession of senior leadership.

Development Emotional Intelligence is elastic. Those who lack it can acquire it; those who have it can enhance it. Our Emotional Intelligence tools identify areas of strength and weakness that training and coaching can be designed around. People at every level of the organization, from new hires to senior managers, can develop their Emotional Intelligence skills and see their job performance improve significantly.

Leadership As most experienced leaders are acutely aware, social and emotional competencies are critical to managerial success. Our tools, along with specialized reports and development plans, have helped organizations formulate clear profiles and development plans for up-and-coming leaders.

Team and Organization Building The Emotional Intelligence tools go beyond the success of the individual. Using these tools will help you build strong, cohesive and highly functioning teams.

These assessment tools can be used as part of Executive Coaching or team building program. It is well known that the more you know about yourself the better you perform. Developing your capacity for stress improves your ability to function under any circumstances.

Taking the Assessment Accessing this assessment online is easy. We send you an email with a link to take the assessment. Once online it takes 10-20 minutes to complete the assessment. Once completed, we schedule your 1:1 feedback session. You receive a detailed report with an action plan for further development.

Follow up We work with your team to develop Leadership Competencies and ultimately to increase performance. With over half of new Executives and managers burning out after 18 months, it really does pay to support yourself and your team.

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