SELF TEST YOUR EQ    EQ/EI or Emotional Intelligence is now recognized as one of the most critical drivers of personal, professional, business and leadership success.

What is EQ?  A learned/coached capacity to understand and manage your emotions, understand the emotions of others and use what you are thinking and feeling to inspire the best in yourself and others. IQ may get you the job, but EQ will help you keep it, develop the people centric leadership and communications skills you need to live, lead and succeed to purpose.  Yes, you can read about EQ, but the best way to build it is to be coached!

 Yes/No

_____1. Do you understand both your strengths and your weaknesses?

_____2. Can you be depended on to take care of every detail?

_____3. Are you comfortable with change and open to novel ideas?

_____4. Are you motivated by the satisfaction of meeting your own standards of excellence?

_____5. Do you stay optimistic when things go wrong?

_____6. Can you see things from another person’s point of view and sense what matters most to him or her?

_____7. Do you let clients’ needs determine how you serve them?

_____8. Do you enjoy helping colleagues develop their skills?

_____9. Can you read office politics accurately?

_____10. Are you able to find “win-win” solutions in negotiations and conflicts?

_____11. Are you the kind of person other people want on a team?

_____12. Are you usually persuasive?

If you answered “yes” to six or more of these questions and if people who know you well would agree with you, then you have a high degree of emotional intelligence. Source:  Working With Emotional Intelligence, Bantam Books, New York, 1998.