September 19, 2007

New 360 Survey Measures Executive Emotional Intelligence

Executive leadership skill differs from the leadership required at lower levels of organizations. First, executive leaders create and articulate visions. Second, executive leaders must lead people to engage in those visions. Research is clear that the emotional intelligence of leaders greatly influences their effectiveness in the latter task. Thus, emotional intelligence is a great career asset for motivated leaders.

Executive EQ helps chief executive officers, presidents, and vice presidents understand perceptions of their emotional intelligence through competency scores on vision, organizational and marketplace awareness, self-awareness, energy, self-confidence, self-management, engagement and more. It is appropriate for anyone responsible for communicating vision and engaging followers in that vision.

This new survey is based on the reliable, validated Survey of Executive Leadership from Clark Wilson Group. It integrates several special qualities articulated by Daniel Goleman in his breakthrough book, Emotional Intelligence (Bantam, 1995), such as self-awareness, self-regulation, and self-confidence, and meets Wilson’s rigorous research standards.

Clark Wilson Group’s Executive EQ survey differs from other EQ surveys in two ways. First, Wilson surveys are based on a learning model. They measure observable behaviors. Thus, Wilson’s EEQ survey looks only for competencies that people can change and develop through training and reinforcement. EEQ fact sheets are available now. For sample reports, call 1-800-565-4223.