Forrest Gump is known for the famous line, “Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.” The same is true for bosses. Anytime anyone accepts a position, they never really know what they’re going to get.
To really find out whether you have a good boss or not, a quick exercise in assessing your boss’s current emotional competencies against bosses with high emotional intelligence (EQ) is in order.
Even though self-awareness – knowing who we are and how we’re seen – is important for job performance, career success, and leadership effectiveness, it’s in remarkably short supply in today’s workplace. In a Harvard Business Review study, it was discovered that although 95% of people think they’re self-aware, only 10 to 15% actually are.
As most of us are in lockdown at home, we are left to wonder what a post-coronavirus-world might look like. There’s a lot unknown about how the world will transform after we get the novel coronavirus under control, but it is extremely unlikely that things will just go back to exactly the way they were before. Our workplaces are likely to change, and with it, the skills companies will require. Here are 8 job skills that are likely to be in high demand in a post-coronavirus world. [Read more…]
The conversations in recent weeks have a common theme and that we all know so well. The whole situation precipitated a rapid need for flexibility and forced an exit from the comfort zone, to which we so often settled. Different approaches to remote leadership, distance team management, family-work balance, collaboration, motivation and well-being were quickly created. Each time we go through the feed of the different social media we see an admirable number of articles, webinars, trainings that guarantee to help with precious tips on how to adapt to this whole context.
EQ-I 2.0 is an EI self-evaluation tool that measures the interaction between the individual and the surrounding environment in which he acts.
The report provides a comprehensive interpretation of an individual’s emotional intelligence; including an overview of the results, a description of each of the 15 subscales of the EQ-i 2.0 and action strategies.
It consists of 5 scales, divided by 15 subscales, as well as an indicator of well-being (Happiness).
Measuring and evaluating individual emotional intelligence helps to identify areas of development, as well as the best measures to do so.
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