Emotional Self Awareness Inventory

The Emotional Competence Inventory is a test that grades your Emotional Intelligence by separating four categories (Self-Awareness, Self-Management, Social Awareness, and Relationship Management) into twenty-one competencies. After taking the test my strongest category was Self-Management where I scored an average of 4.03. Self-Management is divided into: emotional self-control, trustworthiness, conscientiousness, adaptability, optimism, achievement orientation, and initiative. This quadrant ultimately shows how well you can manage to do things without being told and how well trusted you are when given a task that you will get it done without having to be told multiple times. Looking further in, people testing high in this quadrant are trusted …show more content…
Self-Awareness is divided into Emotional Self-Awareness, Accurate Self-Assessment, and Self-Confidence. Self-Awareness is how you control and present yourself at all times. People in Self-Awareness management are expected to be aware of their feelings while being able to control them to present themselves in a prestigious manor while also being aware of their strengths and weaknesses. One of the most important things in Self-Awareness is being able to take criticism in a positive manor, this requires you to hold your feelings in check and present yourself in a way that they can tell you are trying to …show more content…
Starting with my lowest scores which was a two on Inspirational Leadership, we can think of ideas to improve our low scores. Inspirational Leadership is described as what a person does to lead a team in the direction they need to be going and how they lead them. They inspire others to feel like they are something bigger than themselves and therefore want to reach the goals set by the group. While this was my lowest score it is one that can be easily enhanced. There are many movies and books that describe what a good leader does and should do but if an employee of mine had such a problem with leadership, I would tell him to think of someone who he thinks of as a leader. Whether that person is an athlete, a parent figure, or the President of the United States the employee needs to imagine that person in a leadership role and what that person would do in similar situations to themselves. This exercise should increase not only their productivity as a leader but also the productivity of their group while bringing everyone together towards a common