Emotional Intelligence Self-Analysis
Carefully consider the following EI competencies. Reflect on each one and
decide which level best describes your current leadership behaviours. Try to
be open, honest and realistic with yourself about how you are and consider
how others perceive you to be.
Level one is just developing – Level four is high competent
Emotional Intelligence – Self analysis
Name:_________________
School:____________________________
Competency 1
Emotional Self Awareness – recognising our emotions and their effects
Levels:
1 aware of your own feelings
2 realise the links between your feelings and actions
3 understands implications of own emotions
4 has deep emotional insight and self knowledge
Level____
Competency 2
Accurate self-analysis – knowing your strengths and limits
Levels:
1 aware of your strengths and limits
2 reflective, learning from experience
3 open to feedback
4 able to show sense of humour and perspective about yourself
Level____
Competency 3
Self-confidence – a strong sense of our self worth and capabilities
Levels:
1 confident in job capability
2 belief in oneself
3 can voice views that are unpopular
4 has presence and controlled confidence
Level____
Competency 4
Self control – handling disruptive emotions and impulses
Levels:
1 can manage impulsive feelings and distressing emotions well
2 has patience
3 responds calmly
4 stays composed and positive under pressure
Level____
Competency 5
Transparency – maintaining integrity, acting on one’s values
Levels:
1 keeps promises
2 brings up ethical concerns
3 publicly admits to mistakes
4 always acts in accordance with own values, even if unpopular
Level___
Competency 6
Achievement – the drive to meet an internal standard of excellence
Levels:
1 improves own performance through driving self
2 sets challenging goals for self
3 anticipates obstacles to potential and progress
4 takes calculated risks to get results
Level___
Competency 7
Initiative – readiness to act
Levels:
1 addresses current opportunities
2 makes additional efforts beyond expectations
3 seeks out and uses information about future
4 mobilises others to actions
Level___
Competency 8
Empathy – understanding others and taking an active interest in their
concerns
Levels:
1 listens
2 reads non-verbal clues well
3 genuinely open to and values diversity
4 consistently recognises and values others’ perspectives
Level___
Competency 9
Organisation awareness – reading the undercurrents and power
relationships of a group
Levels:
1 understands informal structure
2 understands climate and culture
3 understands organisational politics
4 understands underlying issues
Level___
Competency 10
Service orientation – recognising and meeting customer needs
Levels:
1 makes self available
2 monitors satisfaction of staff, pupils and parents
3 takes personal responsibility
4 matches customer (children, staff, parental, UNRWA ) needs
Level___
Competency 11
Developing others – sensing others’ development needs and fostering
their abilities
Levels:
1 recognises strengths in others
2 provides support for development needs
3 gives timely and effective feedback
4 acts as a mentor or coach to develop potential
Level___
Competency 12
Inspirational leadership – inspiring and guiding people
Levels:
1 leads by example
2 stimulates enthusiasm in team
3 inspires others to improve
4 communicates an impelling vision, others buy in
Level___
Competency 13
Influence – having an impact on others
Levels:
1 engages audience
2 anticipates impact of actions or words
3 uses indirect influence
4 uses complex strategies to build consensus and support
Level___
Competency 14
Conflict management – negotiating and resolving conflict
Levels:
1 airs disagreements
2 handles difficult people with diplomacy and tact
3 spots and addresses conflicts openly
4 orchestrates win-win solutions
Level___
Competency 15
Working with others towards shared goals
Levels:
1 co-operates
2 solicits input
3 encourages others in collaboration
4 builds effective bonds, teams and partnerships
Level___
When you have considered each competency carefully, enter your selfassessed level in the table below:
E I Competency
Emotional self-awareness
Accurate self-analysis
Self-confidence
Self control
Transparency
Achievement
Initiative
Empathy
Organisational awareness
Service orientation
Developing others
Inspirational leadership
Influence
Conflict management
Teamwork and collaboration
Level
E I Strengths: (Levels 3 and 4)
E I Areas for further development: (Levels 1 and 2)
Two E I competencies I will focus on in order to develop my leadership skills
are:
Ways in which I could change my leadership behaviours to develop my EI…..