All of us need to improve our decision making abilities in this business environment. 

IQ (Intelligence Quotient) measures your overall general intelligence. EQ (Emotional Quotient) measures your emotional intelligence: your ability to sense, understand, and effectively apply the power and acumen of emotions to facilitate high levels of collaboration and productivity.  This is how effective leaders leverage their awareness of emotions for effectiveness in the workplace.

So, how in the world do we measure EQ? We now have a proven, validated assessment which meausres a person’s emotional intelligence by focusing on 5 areas within interpersonal and intrapersonal intelligence.  Intrapersonal intelligence is the ability to understand oneself, and interpersonal intelligence is the skill of understanding others.

Intrapersonal skills tested  include self-awareness (ability to recognize your own moods, emotions, and drives, and their effect on others), self-regulation (ability to control or re-direct disruptive impulses and moods , the propensity to suspend judgement and think before acting), and motivation (the passion to work for reasons that go beyond money and status and a propensity to pursue goals with energy abd persistence)

Interpersonal EQ tested for in the assessment include both social skills (managing relationships and building networks) and empathy (the ability to understand the emotional makeup of other people).

Isn’t this stuff a bit fuffy for corporate use?  Ahh, well, let’s put it this way.  Most problems in the corporate setting are people problems.  With this tool, we can improve our coaching and development process by giving superior performers the opportunity to truly understand their emotional intelligence. , identify ways they can take action to accelerate the EQ development and leverage their new knowledge to mke beter decisions on the job.

That’s not too fluffy to me….We could use some better decision-making skills.

To show you how you can leverage your emotional awareness for effectivess in the workplace, simply contact me at either 503-750-3950 or email me  Julia@Mentaliron.com for a free EQ assessment through April 15th.  Just mention this blog.

Copyright 2009 Target Training International,Ltd. and Julia Marrocco. All rights reserved.

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