Become an emotionally intelligent leader.

Become an emotionally intelligent leader.

Emotional Intelligence

Better understand and strengthen your success-building emotional skills

“It’s not IQ that leads to success. EQ is more important: emotional intelligence, social skills, how you relate, can you get things done. That’s what makes a difference, especially in management.”
— Jamie Dimon, CEO of JP Morgan Chase, to a group of MBA students

Research has shown that an individual’s emotional intelligence is a better predictor of success than IQ. In Daniel Goleman’s book Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ, he defines EQ as the “capacity for recognizing our own feelings and those of others, for motivating ourselves and for managing emotions well in ourselves and our relationships.” Emotional intelligence is not a static factor — to the contrary, one’s emotional intelligence can change over time and can be developed in targeted areas.

You don’t have to be a coaching client or member of one of my groups to do an EQ-i assessment, although all my coaching clients undergo an EQ-i assessment. Why? What really matters for success, character, happiness and lifelong achievements is having a definite set of emotional skills — your EQ — not just purely cognitive abilities measured by conventional IQ tests.

If you’d like to learn more about how I use the EQ-i assessment to help clients become more successful, schedule a time to meet with me. Want to see a sample report? Call Mike and request one.

Emotional Intelligence FAQs

  • Q: How can an EQ-i assessment help me?
    A:

    I recommend an EQ-i assessment when you’re not getting the results you want, or the people who work for and with you are not getting the results they need. The EQ-i can provide insight into why. This makes it a powerful coaching tool. Unlike most other assessment tools, EQ-i not only tells you how you’re wired, but also opens the door to understanding why you’re wired as you are.

  • Q: What is the EQ-i assessment process?
    A:

    Taking the emotional intelligence assessment is simple:

    1. Contact me to say you’re interested and I email login instructions to you.
    2. You complete the online questionnaire (10-20 minutes).
    3. I email the assessment results to you and arrange to set up a feedback session.
    4. During the feedback session, we go over your results and identify 1 to 3 things you can work on to improve your ability to interact effectively with others.
  • Q: What is the assessment?
    A:

    The EQ-i emotional intelligence assessment is the tool I use as a standalone service for my clients. I’m certified by Multi-Health Systems, Inc. to administer the Bar-On EQ–i suite of emotional intelligence assessments.

  • Q: What does the emotional intelligence report look like?
    A:

    The EQ-i 2.0 report is a 19-page report that discusses five measures of emotional intelligence. Under each of these measures are three “competencies” of an emotionally intelligent leader. Clients receive a numeric score on each of these 15 competencies. These scores are the focus of the report and my feedback session.

  • Q: What should I expect from the feedback session?
    A:

    A feedback session normally lasts 90 minutes to 2 hours. The goals of the session are to help clients:

    • Become more emotionally self-aware.
    • Understand how they are seen by others.
    • Identify one thing they want to work on to be more effective leaders.
  • Q: How is the EQ-i different from other assessments such as Myers-Briggs, Hogan, Caliper or DISC?
    A:

    These assessments are all valuable; it’s rare to hear someone critical of the insight they offer. The value of the EQ-i is found in the scores on the 15 competencies. They help clients understand how they’re wired and how it influences their interactions with others. These 15 competencies provide grist for the mill in the feedback session to help identify that one thing to work on to become a more effective leader.

  • Q: What is the EQ 360 and how is it different from the EQ-i discussed above?
    A:

    The 360 measures the same 15 competencies as the EQ-i 2.0. It compares one’s scores with how direct reports, peers and supervisors scored the subject.

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