Developing Emotional and Social Intelligence: Exercises for Leaders, Individuals, and Teams

Chapter 2. Supporting Your ESI Work: Using Assessments

The exercises in this book are presented to support your work in developing emotional intelligence in leaders and teams. The skills and competencies required can be addressed with or without the use of an assessment. Assessments can increase awareness and motivation for change, so we find that gaining the data and clarifications from credible assessments is a great strategy for success. Should you wish to use an assessment, we have described several that work well with the exercises in this book. We have organized the exercises around skills for individuals and teams as measured by two well-respected emotional intelligence instruments, the Emotional Intelligence Skills Assessment (EISA) and ...