Helping Your Emotional Intelligence Work for You

Understanding and developing your emotional intelligence can help you be more effective in your work and your personal life. It can assist you in understanding what you are feeling and why. It can also help you respond more effectively to others.

Exploring and developing emotional intelligence can help you to motivate yourself, manage your stress, and resolve conflicts with others. Using emotional intelligence determines how effectively you express yourself within the contexts of family, workplace, and community. It determines how well people listen to you and how well you are heard.

In a work setting, emotional intelligence is a much stronger predictor of job success than IQ. The good news about emotional intelligence is that, unlike IQ, it can be enhanced.

The Bar-On Emotional Quotient Inventory (EQ-i) has been developed to help you better understand your emotional intelligence. The EQ-i measures your:

Intrapersonal EQ

Self regard
Emotional self-awareness
Assertiveness
Independence
Self actualization

Interpersonal EQ

Empathy
Social responsibility

Stress Management EQ

Stress tolerance
Impulse control

Adaptability EQ

Reality testing
Flexibility
Problem solving

General Mood EQ

Optimism
Happiness

The EQ-i takes approximately 30 minutes to complete on-line. You will be provided with a report that explains each of the 19 areas above, how you scored on them, and simple strategies for developing any areas that interest you. You are also provided with a thorough debrief and with the opportunity to have any questions answered.

To get a better sense of what a report looks like, contact Mark for a sample.

Mark Sachs
705 McNeill Road
Silver Spring, MD 20910

Phone 301-588-3858
mark@markasachs.com