Assessing for Emotional Intelligence Competence, technical skills, integrity and determination are traits most people would agree are important for leadership. But what about self-awareness,...

Running Head: ASSESSING FOR EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE    1
ASSESSING FOR EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE    4
ASSESSING FOR EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE
Table of Contents
a)    5
Concept of EI    5
EI as an Evolved Factor Associated with Leadership Performance    5
EI is a Distinct Component of Intelligence    6
Importance of Classification of EI for Senior Leadership    6
b)    6
Criticality of EI as Compared to Cognitive Ability in Determining Leadership Success    6
c)    7
Assessment 1: Emotional and Social Competence Inventory    7
Theoretical Framework    7
Uses    7
Target Population    8
Assessment 2: Emotional Aperture Measure    8
Theoretical Framework    8
Uses    8
Target Population    9
Assessment 3: Genos Emotional Intelligence Assessment    9
Theoretical Framework    9
Uses    9
Target Population    10
d)    10
Assessment 1: Emotional and Social Competence Inventory    10
Reliability and Validity    10
Administration Considerations    10
Costs    10
Assessment 2: Emotional Aperture Measure    11
Reliability and Validity    11
Administration Considerations    11
Costs    11
Assessment 3: Genos Emotional Intelligence Assessment    11
Reliability and Validity    11
Administration Considerations    12
Costs    12
e)    12
Assessment 1: Emotional and Social Competence Inventory    12
Advantages    12
Disadvantages    12
Circumstances to Recommend ESCI    12
Circumstances to Not Recommend ESCI    13
Assessment 2: Emotional Aperture Measure    13
Advantages    13
Disadvantages    13
Circumstances to Recommend EAP    13
Circumstances to Not Recommend EAP    13
Assessment 3: Genos Emotional Intelligence Assessment    14
Advantages    14
Disadvantages    14
Circumstances to Recommend Genos Emotional Intelligence Assessment    14
Circumstances to Not Recommend Genos Emotional Intelligence Assessment    14
References    15
a)
Concept of EI
Emotional Intelligence (EI) is offering the ability to a person for understanding the emotional aspects of others. Therefore, EI offers opportunity in front of individuals to manage their emotions in the positive perspectives and manage different operations in the organization. It helps managers or leaders to make effective communication with employees as well as associated people of the company with the fluent manner (Potter et al., 2018). Self-awareness, self-regulation, internal motivation, empathy and social skills are the five main components of emotional intelligence. It shows that EI helps a person to manage all those components in case of performing different operations.
EI as an Evolved Factor Associated with Leadership Performance
EI serves its contributions in the leadership operation of the leaders with the developed contexts. Within this context, it can be noted that leaders of the organization can manage the emotions of their employees with the application of EI in their leadership activities. This helps leaders to adopt the best workforces from their employees. Therefore, EI help leaders to serve empathy to the employees of the company (Yildizbas, 2017).
This process helps employees to take motivation from the leader to achieve the destined goals of the company based on their developed ornaments. On the other hand, EI allows leaders to make their self-awareness involve developed leadership strategies in their performances. It resulted in the successful composition of leadership activities in the organization to achieve its destined success graph.
EI is a Distinct Component of Intelligence
As suggested by Mfikwe and Pelser (2017), EI is the distinct component of intelligence as it serves the ability of the leader to recognize their own emotions in the critical situation of their activities. It not only helps in the management of personal emotion, but it helps to create awareness regarding the effects of actions that are performed by leaders in the company.
On the other hand, EI offers the ability for individuals to be flexible to the time of making changes in different activities. It helps in the development of conflict management activities. Through this process, the leader of the organization gets the ability to managing critical situations in the organizational plans.
Importance of Classification of EI for Senior Leadership
Classification of EI is the most important aspect for the performances of leadership activities with success. In that case, it can be mentioned that the requirements of the leadership activities are not the same every time (Nabih et al., 2016). On this note, the classification of EI is required as it helps in the implementation of the specific characters of EI in its required places. Thus, the classification of EI helps to meet the emotional needs of individuals. It also helps to develop the resilience capacity within a person at the time of performing multiple activities.
b)
Criticality of EI as Compared to Cognitive Ability in Determining Leadership Success
According to Maamari and Majdalani (2017), emotional intelligence is the best predictors of leadership activities of leaders in the organizational operations. It helps the leaders of the organization to understand the behaviors of the followers of employees in the company in case of following the instruction of the leader. EI helps to measure the success of the leading operations of the leader by analyzing the involvement of the employees in the leadership activities. It is noted as the powerful indicator of the true leader of a leader.
On the other hand, as argued by Neil et al. (2016), EI is the most crucial factor to analyze the execution of leadership strategies of leaders in different operations. On this note, EI helps to analyze the achievement of successful results of leaders based on the execution of their leadership culture in the organizational structure. Therefore, EI helps leaders to make the engagement of all the employees in the...