Experts with suboptimal emotional intelligence lack the personal discipline to be individually effective. They also lack interpersonal skills to engage with and influence others.

Ask yourself these questions:

• Would there be value in undertaking an emotional intelligence assessment (such as the free test in the book Emotional Intelligence 2.0 by Bradbury and Greaves)?

• Should I invest in a more extensive assessment? One in which the views of my colleagues are included, such as the Genos International EQ test. (We highly recommend this.)

• What ad-hoc feedback might I be able to gather about how I interact with other colleagues around my emotional intelligence?

• Are there some gaps that are obvious to me from reading this chapter?

• Does my organisation have some existing tools I could leverage to inform the extent of my current emotional intelligence?

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