Emotional Intelligence Skills Assessment

Designed for management development, the Emotional Intelligence Skills Assessment measures adult emotional intelligence on five scales; perceiving, managing, decision making, achieving, and influencing.  

This emotional intelligence assessment can be used as a standalone training resource or a powerful complement to assist leadership development, team building, and communication effectiveness programs.

What It’s Best Used For

• Management & Leadership Development: Training leaders to accurately perceive, manage, and use emotions to lead change, handle workspace pressure, and solve complex interpersonal problems.
• Enhancing Corporate Training Programs: Serving as a modular component to upgrade existing training initiatives focused on professional communication, team dynamics, and interpersonal soft skills.
• Evaluating Core Emotional Dimensions: Auditing individual capabilities across five precise scales: perceiving, managing, decision-making, achieving, and influencing.
• Facilitating Interactive Workshops: Equipping internal trainers with a full plug-and-play package—including a Facilitator Guide, PowerPoint presentations, and group exercises—to run a 1 to 1.5-day team seminar.
• Gathering Multi-Rater Perspective: Deploying the specialized EISA 360° Multi-Rater variant to allow participants to receive unlimited anonymous feedback from managers, peers, and direct reports.
• All-Level Professional Self-Awareness: Helping employees at any tier of an organization evaluate their personal strengths, map out growth opportunities, and build better working relationships.

How It Works

Built on a proven, scientifically verified framework, the EISA is easy to use and requires no professional certification. The 50-item self-assessment accurately measures emotional intelligence on five scales:

1. Perceiving
2. Managing
3. Decision making
4. Achieving
5. Influencing

The accompanying Workbook and workshop curriculum familiarizes individuals with the concept of emotional intelligence. It allows them to learn more about themselves and identify strategies to leverage their strengths and find opportunities for improvement.

The Facilitator Guide includes everything you need to lead a successful training session, from comprehensive background information and activities to reproducible handouts and a professional PowerPoint presentation.

Uses and Applications

The EISA can be used as a standalone training instrument, or it can be incorporated into a more comprehensive program on emotional intelligence. The EISA can be applied as a(n):

• Effective component in training programs on related topics such as leadership, communication, and team building
• Addition to any program that focuses on interpersonal skills
• Tool for addressing the five emotional intelligence factors
• Discussion starter for groups about team dynamics

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this assessment, participants will have the skills to:

• Uncover the major components of emotional intelligence
• Recognize the behaviors and characteristics of an emotionally intelligent person
• Identify areas where emotional intelligence skills can be applied
• Evaluate personal strengths and growth opportunities
• Generate action steps to improve emotional intelligence and success

Product Details

Product Type

Assessment and workshop. The EISA Facilitator Guide includes everything you need to lead a successful training session.

Target Audience

This assessment is appropriate for individuals at any organizational level who want to discover more about their communication and emotional intelligence skills.

Measures

To assess and develop emotional intelligence.

Dimensions

The EISA measures and addresses emotional intelligence on five key scales:

1. Perceiving: The ability to accurately recognize, attend to, and understand emotion
2. Managing: The ability to effectively manage, control, and express emotion
3. Decision Making: The application of emotion to manage change and solve problems
4. Achieving: The ability to generate the necessary emotions to self-motivate in the pursuit of realistic and meaningful objectives
5. Influencing: The ability to recognize, manage, and evoke emotion within oneself and others to promote change

What to Order

Facilitator Guide: Order One Guide Per Trainer – The Facilitator Guide provides everything you need to facilitate a full-day workshop. Included are background information, assessment instructions, scripts, discussion questions, activities, and samples of the assessment. Facilitator support materials will be available to you as a digital download link in your order confirmation.

Paper Assessment 5-Pack: Order One Pack For Up to Five Participants – The print version is ideal for facilitators who prefer to oversee scoring and administration of the assessment, if you don’t know who the participants will be before the class begins, or if your learners do not have easy access to computers. It includes pressure-sensitive forms for scoring to aid manual tabulation.

Workbook 5-Pack: Order One Pack For Up to Five Participants – A comprehensive takeaway including critical content, worksheets, and forms used during the workshop, as well as additional tools for on-the-job use.

Workbook table of contents

• Introduction
• Overview
• What is Emotional Intelligence and Why is it Important at Work
• The Five Factors of Emotional Intelligence
• Understanding Your Results
• Developing Your Emotional and Social Skills
• Development Exercises for each of the 5 EI Scales
• Development Strategies for each of the 5 EI Scales

Online Assessment: Order One Per Participant – A detailed report is delivered electronically to the facilitator when complete.

Online Assessment with Digital Workbook: Order One Per Participant – Includes the Online Assessment with a digital version of the workbook component described above.

Online Assessment 360° Multi-Rater Version: Order One Per Participant – Includes the Online Assessment with a digital version of the workbook component described above, and the additional functionality of allowing unlimited feedback for each participant. The multi-rater version includes:

• The EISA Advantage
• Access to the EISA: 360
• About the scoring
• Your EISA: 360 results summary
• Areas showing the greatest consistency and opportunity