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EQ Test Checklist
EQ Test Checklist
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As a team leader, manager or business owner, there is a lot you can do to make your
team more emotionally intelligent. The benefits of higher team EI should include:
better morale, more creativity, better staff attraction and retention, and higher
levels of 'discretionary effort' (people putting in more than the minimum their job
description requires).
How many of these questions can you give meaningful answers to?
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Self-Awareness
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ć Does your team know what it's there for? What is its purpose? Does every team
member know this? How?
ć Does everyone in your team understand what is important about achieving the
purpose (the team's ends values)?
ć Does your team solicit honest feedback - from customers, suppliers and other
outside stakeholders?
ć Do your team members feel they can talk honestly you (if they do, the evidence
will be you sometimes get critical feedback)?
ć Are there no serious issues between team members that you don't know about?
Really? How do you know?
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Relationship Awareness
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ć How good are you and your team at putting yourselves into the shoes of
customers, employees, and other stakeholders?
ć What are you doing to maintain and improve your own and your team members'
ability to see yourselves as others see them?
ć How diverse is your team (gender balance, different personality types, cultural
backgrounds)
ć How long does it take a new entrant to become a productive member and feel
part of the team? How can the team make this easier?
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Self-Management
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ć What mechanisms are in place for resolving conflict within your team - and do
they work?
ć What is the length of the typical working day and week (more than a five-day
week or an eight-hour day will tend to have adverse effects on health, stress levels
and performance)?
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Motivation
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ć Does everyone in your team know how their job fits into the bigger picture?
ć Do you know for sure what motivates each of your team members? How?
ć Is the rate of staff turnover significantly below the average for comparable teams
(within or outside your organisation)?
ć Does each team member get feedback as often as they want/need it?
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Relationship Management
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ć To what extent do employees act as advocates for the products, services or work
of your team outside working hours?
ć What is the tone (verbal and 'non-verbal') of your communication with team
members?
ć Does your team embody a win/win ethos in its dealings with others?