Emotional Intelligence
Emotional Intelligence
understand yourself before trying to understand others
understand yourself before trying to understand others
Why Traits?
There are two main ways to measure Emotional Intelligence:
Trait: This places people on a continuum for each of a series of personality traits, which allows for shades of grey indicating the typical responses. There are no right or wrong answers in this form of measure.
Ability: This measured by tests of maximum performance. Answers will be right or wrong, therefore someone could be high or low scoring.
The table to the right illustrates these key differences.
There are two main ways to measure Emotional Intelligence:
Trait: This places people on a continuum for each of a series of personality traits, which allows for shades of grey indicating the typical responses. There are no right or wrong answers in this form of measure.
Ability: This measured by tests of maximum performance. Answers will be right or wrong, therefore someone could be high or low scoring.
The table to the right illustrates these key differences.
The traits we use are:
