PERSONALITY AND EIQ

Personality assessments
Personality assessments aim to measure whether your personal attributes would suit a particular work environment. They can be used to assess aspects of your individual behavior, attitudes or opinions, as well as your motivation, interests and values. Your results can then be compared to the characteristics considered essential for the job.
Did you know that a professional personality test can help you:

• increase your productivity and get that next promotion?
• identify your ideal job?
• get along better with your coworkers?
• find that special someone or improve the relationship you are in?
• reduce the likelihood of health risks?
• realize your full potential?

Your personality is without question the most important driver influencing your career, relationships, health and sense of well-being. To harness the full potential of your personality, it is critical to first measure and then gain insight into your strengths and developmental needs.

Emotional Intelligence theory (EI)
Emotional Intelligence - EI - is a relatively recent behavioral model, rising to prominence with Daniel Goleman's 1995 book called 'Emotional Intelligence'. The early Emotional Intelligence theory was originally developed during the 1970's and 80's by the work and writings of psychologists Howard Gardner (Harvard), Peter Salovey (Yale) and John Mayer (New Hampshire). Emotional Intelligence is increasingly relevant to organizational development and developing people, because the EI principles provide a new way to understand and assess people's behaviors, management styles, attitudes, interpersonal skills, and potential. Emotional Intelligence is an important consideration in human resources planning, job profiling, recruitment interviewing and selection, management development, customer relations and customer service, and more.
The EI concept argues that IQ or conventional intelligence, is too narrow; that there are wider areas of emotional intelligence that dictate and enable how successful we are. Success requires more than IQ (Intelligence Quotient), which has tended to be the traditional measure of intelligence, ignoring essential behavioral and character elements. We've all met people who are academically brilliant and yet are socially and inter-personally inept. And we know that despite possessing a high IQ rating, success does not automatically follow.
Emotional intelligence - two aspects
This is the essential premise of EI: to be successful requires the effective awareness, control and management of one's own emotions, and those of other people.

EI embraces two aspects of intelligence:

• Understanding yourself, your goals, intentions, responses, behavior and all.
• Understanding others and their feelings.

Emotional intelligence
the five domains Goleman identified the five 'domains' of EI as:

• Knowing your emotions.
• Managing your own emotions.
• Motivating yourself.
• Recognizing and understanding other people's emotions.
• Managing relationships, i.e., managing the emotions of others.

Emotional Intelligence embraces and draws from numerous other branches of behavioral, emotional and communications theories, such as NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming), Transactional Analysis and empathy. By developing our Emotional Intelligence in these areas and the five EI domains we can become more productive and successful at what we do and help others to be more productive and successful too. The process and outcomes of Emotional Intelligence development also contain many elements known to reduce stress for individuals and organizations, by decreasing conflict, improving relationships and understanding and increasing stability, continuity and harmony.