Emotional Intelligence Testing
Emotional intelligence testing can help you develop more profound and meaningful relationships. EIQ assessments can show a current or prospective employer your potential on a different level.
Benefits of Emotional Intelligence Testing
Emotional intelligence testing can lead to new insights and deeper understanding.
Deepen Understanding
Knowing unique details about your eIQ can help you fully understand relationships with friends, colleagues, and partners in a way that can bring you closer.
Develop Skills
Emotional intelligence testing will highlight your strengths and how to improve and develop new abilities, coping strategies, and insights. You’ll enhance what you are good at and improve on weaknesses.
Improve Performance
Many employers recognize the value of eIQ in your field and will appreciate that you are working to understand and learn from yours. You will likely improve work performance.
Improve
Even those with high emotional intelligence can find ways to improve and deepen their skills. Repeated emotional intelligence testing can be done to measure the effectiveness of your strategies.
Emotional Intelligence Testing Instruments
Personality Tests
An eIQ assessment starts with general personality tests, which will help give an overview of how you develop and maintain relationships and what your basic and unique patterns of relating are.
Emotional Rating Scales
Next, specific tests will be chosen designed to measure and assess your emotional intelligence – your level of emotional sensitivity and its accuracy, for example.
Specific Add-Ons
Finally, we will add specific tests to your eIQ assessment depending on your goals and the results of the first two steps. We might add a test specific to your career or your social goals.
Emotional Intelligence Testing Overview
Our Emotional Intelligence Testing (eIQ testing) provides a process that aims to assess your ability to perceive, understand, manage, and express emotions. It also works to uniquely describe your emotional intelligence in social situations, such as your emotional awareness, empathy, interpersonal skills, and ability to perceive emotions in others accurately. eIQ testing is one of the more popular of the different types of IQ testing we offer.
We provide eIQ testing to individuals and groups and can uniquely tailor the testing battery to the questions you want answered and your overall goals.
What is Emotional IQ (eIQ)?
In order to answer “What is eIQ?” we start with several critical components of emotional intelligence:
1. Self-awareness: This is the ability to recognize and understand our emotional strengths, weaknesses, values, and motivations. Individuals with high self-awareness clearly understand how their emotions influence their behavior and decision-making.
2. Self-regulation: This involves the ability to manage and control one’s emotions, impulses, and reactions. People with high self-regulation can adapt to changing circumstances, handle stress effectively, and maintain a positive attitude.
3. Motivation: Emotional intelligence includes intrinsic motivation, the drive to achieve goals, and a passion for personal growth. Individuals with high emotional intelligence are often self-motivated, resilient, and optimistic.
4. Empathy: Empathy is the ability to understand and share the feelings of others. It involves being attuned to others’ emotions, perspectives, and needs. Empathetic individuals can establish deeper connections with people and demonstrate compassion and understanding.
5. Social skills: This component encompasses navigating social situations, communicating effectively, and building and maintaining healthy relationships. People with strong social skills excel in conflict resolution, teamwork, collaboration, and leadership.
What Does Testing for Emotional Intelligence Entail?
Our assessment of your eIQ would include the following:
1. A self-report test designed to assess the four major branches of emotional intelligence: perceiving emotions, facilitating emotions, understanding emotions, and managing emotions. These tests present scenarios and ask you to identify, evaluate, and describe how you would regulate emotions in those situations.
2. An interview about your social history, focusing on your actions in situations that pull for self-perception, self-expression, interpersonal decision-making, and stress management. We can include a parent or other caretaker who can add to this by describing how you did in these areas when you were too young to remember.
3. We may decide to get specific, looking at situations in your family or your workplace. These might include critical areas such as self-awareness, awareness of others, authenticity, emotional reasoning, self-management, positive influence, and empathy.
4. Finally, we may look at how your eIQ affects other areas of your life, such as stress tolerance, impulse control, and coping strategies.
What You Can Get from eIQ Testing
Our goal with testing for emotional intelligence is designed to provide valuable insights and practical applications of the unique aspects of your eIQ. Even if you score high, we can still provide you with ways to further develop and tap into your skills through self-reflection, practice, and feedback. Also, since eIQ plays a crucial role in personal relationships, leadership, teamwork, and overall well-being,
Organizations often recognize the significance of emotional intelligence and seek individuals with strong emotional intelligence skills. We can even tailor your report for a current or prospective employer.
We also offer more specific testing for social intelligence, which is a subset of eIQ testing.
Please don’t hesitate to contact us if you’d like to talk about your unique situation, and we can tell you what a course of emotional intelligence testing might entail, what the resulting report might include, and general questions about what IQ is. As with all of our testing services, we piece together a battery of tests from a wide range of possibilities to provide you with a uniquely tailored testing experience.
eIQ Assessment Example
Sarah has just been promoted to a high-level leadership role at her company. She will supervise five people directly, run group meetings, and manage a team. She would like emotional intelligence testing because she knows that being fully aware of her emotional reactions and the feelings of others will be critical to her success in the new role. Her employer was enthusiastic about her getting an eIQ assessment.
We decided that an emotional intelligence testing battery consisting of Personality evaluation, a specific inventory of emotional functioning in the workplace, a comprehensive interview, and a self-monitoring questionnaire would be administered. We also do an anxiety screening.
The results suggest that Sarah has excellent emotional intelligence overall but that sometimes, when in a group setting, mild anxiety interferes with her ability to perceive the emotions of others entirely. She also can sometimes misperceive people who are forceful as being angry when they may not be.
Sarah’s testing report includes suggestions for how she can maximize her strengths and overcome these challenges to be the best manager in the new role. It also provides tips that will help her well beyond work. Sarah even decides that she might ask us to deliver a brief battery to her team to help with their professional development.
FAQ
Here are some of the common questions about emotional intelligence testing.
You can also contact us or schedule a consultation to get more information about eIQ assessments we provide.
How Long Will Emotional Intelligence Testing Take?
Career testing involves two testing sessions of 60-90 minutes, and then a one-hour feedback session after the results are in. The first session is longer because it includes an intake.
How Specific are the Results of eIQ Assessments?
This depends on your goals, but we can design career testing that points you toward specific vocations, or we can give you ideas about your strengths that will help you find new opportunities. A subset of eIQ testing called social intelligence testing can provide specific results in that area.
When Will I Get the Report and Results
We try to produce a draft psychological testing report between 2-3 weeks from testing. Then we will meet to make sure it answers your questions. A final report will come a week later.
Can Career Testing be Combined with other Tests?
Yes, we often do career testing in combination with other testing assessments such as Personality evaluation, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Intelligence Quotient (IQ), and Autism Spectrum Disorder. We may suggest a good combination as we get to know you.
Contact Us About Emotional Intelligence Testing!
We’d be happy to talk to you more about how testing can benefit you.