What is emotional intelligence?
The ability model of emotional intelligence concerns perceiving emotion, using emotion to support thought, understanding emotional information, and regulating emotion in service of useful goals.
Reflect on how accurately you notice, use, understand, and regulate emotion in yourself and interaction with others.
Answer as you are today
Choose the answer that best describes your recent behaviour at work. No email required.
What does emotional intelligence mean?
The ability model of emotional intelligence concerns perceiving emotion, using emotion to support thought, understanding emotional information, and regulating emotion in service of useful goals.
Why it matters at work
Emotional intelligence is not constant calm, charisma, or guessing feelings from facial expressions alone. Leaders need to integrate emotional signals with context, language, behavior, and evidence while respecting privacy and individual difference.
What this assessment measures
Perception & naming
Noticing emotional signals and identifying them precisely without overconfidence or mind-reading.
Understanding & meaning
Connecting emotion to context, needs, patterns, mixed states, and likely changes over time.
Regulation & action
Influencing emotional intensity and choosing behavior without suppressing all feeling or acting on every impulse.
How to interpret your score
Your overall result is normalised to a 0–100 scale. Use it to choose a practice area, not to compare your worth with somebody else.
Build your emotional intelligence foundation
Your answers identify situations where one visible practice could make this capability more dependable.
A developing emotional intelligence pattern
You use this capability in some conditions. Focus on the dimension that becomes least reliable under pressure.
A strong emotional intelligence pattern
Your answers suggest a reliable pattern. Keep testing it against harder work and evidence from people affected.
Designed for reflection, not diagnosis
The ten behaviour-based statements cover 3 practical dimensions. Responses run from “Never” to “Almost always”; negatively worded items are reverse-scored. Overall and dimension results are converted to a 0–100 scale. The assessment is educational and has not been psychometrically validated.
Read the full assessment methodology and editorial standards.
Research that informed this page
John D. Mayer, Peter Salovey, and David R. Caruso (2004), “Emotional Intelligence: Theory, Findings, and Implications”, Psychological Inquiry.