Assessing Your EQ

NAME: Sarah Hardaman

Why assess your EQ?
1. To identify specific behaviors that may hold you back.
2. To pinpoint the EQ strategies to increase your EQ competencies and
positively impact your career.

View your report - www.talentsmart.com/test, click on View my Report:

You will need your unique

passcode from the orange
envelope in your book.

Click on My EQ Scores, then arrow forward to page 3.

72
Your Overall Emotional Intelligence Score: ______
Other Scores:
Personal Competence
Self-Awareness
Self-Management

66
_______
69
_______
63
_______

Social Competence
Social Awareness
Relationship Management

79
_______
80
_______
77
_______

Thinking About Your EQ Scores

What skill earned you the highest score?

Social Awareness
What skilled earned you your lowest score?

Self-Management
What score(s) really surprised you?
None really shocked me but I was sort of surprised that my Self Awareness was so low.
What score(s) did not surprise you?
Self-Management; I am very aware that I tend to let my feelings control my actions.
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Identifying Strategies for Improvement

1. Click on the

icon to return home.

2. Click on My EQ Strategies button.

3. This section analyzes your score profile to suggest the three EQ
strategies that will increase each EQ skill the most.

This column lists your challenges,

behaviors that bring your score
down.
This column lists pages in
the book where you will find
suggested strategies can
find strategies

Hover your mouse over each of

these bars and you will see the
same type of 2 column chart.

4. Based on this information, complete the following Strategy Sheet in the

first column, list the behavior that brings your score down; in the second
column list your strategy. In the column entitled Strategies, list 1
strategy from the book that you can use to improve your score for each
of the 3 behaviors that bring your score down.

Sarah Hardaman

Name: ___________________________________

11/18/15

Date: _____________

Self-Awareness
Behavior that brings this score down

Strategy

Not owning up to your shortcomings. Open up to feedback from others.

Not fully grasping the role you play in creating the difficulties you encounter.

Jot down your core beliefs and values and know them.

Trouble understanding your emotions.

Take notice of your emotions, thoughts, and behaviors right as a situation unfolds.

Self-Management
Behavior that brings this score down

Strategy

Trouble handling frustration.

Take deep, slow breaths in stressful or emotional situations

Brushing people off when something is bothering you.

Accept responsibility for your actions and no one else's.

Not holding back when you know your actions and/or words will not help the situation.

When you find yourself getting frustrated, breath and count to ten.

Social Awareness
Behavior that brings this score down

Strategy

Withdrawing in social situations.

Acknowledge and greet people by their names.

Closing yourself off to feedback.

Look outward and seek feeback from others.

Missing out on other people's non-verbal cues.

Listen fully until the other person is finished speaking.

Relationship Management
Behavior that brings this score down

Strategy

Avoiding other people during difficult situations.

Do not avoid the situation; accept it and move forward.

Not being open and willing enough to explain yourself to others.

Explain the 'why' behind your decisions; don't just make them.

Handling conflict ineffectively.

Resist the urge to plan a comeback or a rebuttal.