EQ at Work - Exercises
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EQ Exercise
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• Go to the EQ element with which you most (or
highly) identify. If there are already two people at
that station, go to your second most highly engaged
EQ element.
• You will be presented with a scenario.
• Assuming you were in this scenario, answer the
following questions:
How would your EQ
element contribute?
2
How would your EQ
element get in the way?
EQ Exercises
EQ at Work—Exercise
You get critical feedback on an annual review that
you under-performed on an important work
assignment and that you may well be ill-suited for
the position.
How would your EQ
element contribute?
3
How would your EQ
element get in the way?
EQ Exercises
EQ at Work—Exercise
An important client has called with a last-minute
request. She has a number of report and
presentation needs that will require significant
schedule disruption for yourself and a few of your
staff.
How would your EQ
element contribute?
4
How would your EQ
element get in the way?
EQ Exercises
EQ at Work—Exercise
• Now go to the EQ element to which you are
least connected or engaged. No more than three
participants should be in any one group.
• You will be presented with a scenario.
• Assuming you were in this scenario, answer the
following questions:
How would your EQ
element contribute?
5
How would your EQ
element get in the way?
EQ Exercises
EQ at Work—Exercise
Your work group has gone multiple quarters missing
its performance goals as new challenges and
competitors continue to pop up. The latest figures
are in and this quarter’s objectives were not met yet
again.
How would your EQ
element contribute?
6
How would your EQ
element get in the way?
EQ Exercises
EQ at Work—Exercise
You have been selected to lead a team of highly
vocal and challenging sales associates through a
necessary but unpopular change process.
How would your EQ
element contribute?
7
How would your EQ
element get in the way?
EQ Exercises
EQ at Work—Exercise
To stay solvent, your company has decided to
eliminate 15% of its workforce and cut its office
space in half.
How would your EQ
element contribute?
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How would your EQ
element get in the way?
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located in Fairfax VA (just outside Washington DC).
OKA has particular expertise in the practical uses of psychological
instruments in improving the performance of leaders, teams and
organizations.
OKA consultants have published many books including Typetalk
at Work, MBTI™ Introduction Workbook, Generations: Bridging
the Gap with Type, Portraits of Jung Type Behavior, and Narrative
Intelligence: Archetypes and the PMAI™.
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