Emotional Intelligence

First off can I please tell you that in the title of this post I initially misspelled "intelligence" and had to check the book cover to get the correct spelling?...yea, off to a good start! ;)

In preparation for Colorado Project all the staff and interns had to do this EQi assessment that basically asks you a lot of questions that you answer on a likert scale. Then you recieve this packet of information that tells you what areas of emotional intelligence you are strong at and which you need to work on. I'm definitely over simplifying the process and science of this assessment, but if you want more information you can look up "The EQ Edge: Emotional Intelligence and Your Success" by Stein and Book.

So, based solely off my packet (I have a phone meeting w/ Nicole tonight to go over all of this) I need to do some work on the areas of self-regard and assertiveness...yea, no big suprises there! Seriously though...I scored significantly lower on those to subscales than on any of the other 13, they were the only ones my score registers as an "area for enrichment" some others come close, but are still considered "effective functioning". In none of the subscales did I score "enhanced skills" so I guess there's room for improvement across the board when it comes to my emotional intelligence. I'm not terribly shocked, but it's kinda funny to see it in plain black and white like that. At least now I have a pretty good idea what my mentor and I are going to be working on improving in me over the summer!

Time to work on thinking good thoughts about myself and speaking my mind a bit more!! ;) There I go over simplifying things again!