Rock U - Assessments - EQ Assessment

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The emotional intelligence or EQ assessment is designed to measure how aware someone is of their own emotions, as well as the emotions of others. And it can give you a little bit of insight into how well someone is able to harness their emotional responses to certain situations. And so, as with any assessment, the first step is that you can request the assessment from an individual's person profile page, and when you do that, you can select one or more assessments. In this case, of course, we're going to select the emotional intelligence, the EQ assessment. You can do that for an individual, or you can send out a request to groups or lists using the communication wizard. However they get there, people will go to my account, and they'll click on the assessment that they want to take. They'll be given with instructions that are specific to the assessment. So in this case, this is the EQ assessment's instructions. Unlike some of the other assessments, the EQ assessment is going to give the person a statement, and then they'll respond to that statement by selecting never, rarely, sometimes, usually, or always. Once they go through all of the statements and have made all of their selection, they'll be immediately provided with the results. And as you can see, there's all sorts of different measurements, and we're going to go into each of those. We have the primary measurements, which are self awareness. Self awareness is being aware of what emotions you're experiencing and why you're experiencing those emotions. We have self regulating, which is appropriately expressing your emotions. It doesn't mean that you suppress your emotions, but rather that you can express them appropriately, so you can regulate yourself. We also have others awareness, which, as you might guess, is being aware of what emotions others are experiencing around you and why they are experiencing those emotions. And last but not least, in the primary measurements, we have the others regulating, which is helping those around you express their emotions appropriately. And this skill centers on helping others know what emotions they're experiencing, and then asking questions or giving them permission to freely and appropriately express their emotions in the context of your relationship, however that fits. Now, as part of the results in addition to the primary measurements, you'll also be getting leadership measurements. There are two of those. We have the EQ and problem solving, which identifies how proficient you are at using emotions to solve problems, which can be very useful to know. And we have EQ under stress, which is how capable you are of keeping a high EQ under high stress moments, which is particularly challenging. It also involves being able to articulate the appropriate emotions under pressure, which may be different from articulating them when not under pressure. So, taking these all together, hopefully you can see a little bit of the value of the emotional intelligence or EQ assessment. We all have emotions. We all deal with a variety of different emotional situations. And so being aware of how we and those around us react and interact in those scenarios is, of course, very helpful. Thanks for watching, and we hope you dive in and take the assessment if you haven't already, and be sure to encourage others in your organization to do the same.