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Unit Summary
This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to develop and use emotional intelligence to
increase self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, and relationship management in the
workplace.
The unit applies to individuals who are required to identify, analyze, synthesize, and act on
information from a range of sources and who deal with unpredictable problems as part of their job
role. These individuals may be responsible for leading a team or work area.
No licensing, legislative or certification requirements apply to this unit at the time of publication.
Prerequisite Units
There are no recommended pre-requisite units for this competency.
Co-requisite Units
There are no recommended co-requisite units for this competency.
Resources
Resources: Student Learner Guide, PowerPoint presentation, Sample Policies and Procedures and
documents, Office equipment and resources, computer facilities with internet, including the “Student
Resource Folder”, accessible for every student via Rhodes College LMS (Learning Management
System.
Guideline for recruitment, selection and induction policies and procedures available at Student Resource
Folder\Sample Policies and Procedures
HR Grapevine available
(www.hrgrapevine.com/markets/hr/article/2014-06-03-5-ways-for-developing-emotional-intelligence)
Note: Students, currently employed, are encouraged to bring their current employer’s policies and
procedures and or relevant documents (with their employer’s permission) to use in their course work. This
material must be reviewed prior to use by the Institute’s Trainer/Assessor. For students who are unable to
bring adequate policies and procedures, the Institute will provide a practice set of documents.
Student Instructions:
1. Your answers should be on a separate document using word processing software such
as MS Word & or other software (handwritten submissions are only acceptable with prior
approval from your Trainer)
2. Your document should be professionally formatted and included.
a. Your Name
b. Your Student ID
c. Unit Code
d. Assessment Number (i.e., BSBPEF502 Assessment 1)
3. Please reference each question number and retype each question with your answers.
4. You must answer every question and provide enough information to demonstrate sufficient
understanding of what has been asked to achieve competency. Please ask your
Trainer/Assessor if you are unsure what is sufficient detail for an answer
5. Ask your trainer/assessor if you do not understand a question. Whist your
trainer/assessor cannot tell you the answer, he/she may be able to re-word the question for you
or provide further assistance based on the Institute’s “Reasonable Adjustment Policy”
6. Answers should be your own work, in your own words and not plagiarised, nor copied.
However, if an answer is cut & pasted (such as a definition), then the source should be
referenced
Questions
Provide descriptions in your own words for the following emotional intelligence
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terminology.
1. Communication
2. Communication Styles
3. Co-Workers
4. Culture
5. Cultural Beliefs
6. Emotions
7. Emotional Climate
8. Emotional Cues
9. Emotional Intelligence
18. Self-Management
19. Self-Reflection
10 Explain how you can control personal anger or aggression in the workplace.
List at least FIVE (5) Questions you could consider asking yourself if you experience a
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particularly unpleasant incident with a colleague at work.
List at least THREE (3) emotional responses that can be evident from the following facial
expressions.
• Smile
14 • Frown
• Blink
• Raised eyebrows.
• Down turned mouth
List at least FIVE (5) examples of workplace situations that could produce an emotional
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response from a fellow colleague.
Explain how each of the following cultural traits might impact on the work environment.
• Cultural Background
• Age
• Gender
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• Socio-economic class
• Language
• Mental ability
• Past experiences
Explain how you could provide opportunities for a workforce to express thoughts and
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feelings.
18 What are the signs that a positive emotional climate exists within a workplace?
You will be required to undertake TWO (2) Assessment tasks to successfully complete this
component of the Assessment. It will require you to demonstrate evidence of your ability to:
Student Instructions:
1. You must complete the full project and provide enough information to demonstrate
sufficient understanding of what has been asked to achieve competency.
2. Your work on this assessment should be on a separate document using word processing
software such as MSWord & or other software (handwritten submissions are only
acceptable with prior approval from your Trainer)
3. Your document should be properly formatted and titled with the Unit Code and Assessment
number (e.g., BSBPEF502 Assessment 2)
4. Ask your trainer/assessor if you do not understand what is required in this assessment.
Whist your trainer/assessor cannot tell you the answer, he/she will be able to offer you
guidance in the requirements of the task or provide further assistance based on the
Institute’s “Reasonable Adjustment Policy”.
5. The document you produce should primarily be your own words and not plagiarised, nor
copied.
6. Material taken directly from other sources must be presented in quotation marks (““) and be
suitably referenced
This assessment task will require you to undertake a self-analysis and gain feedback from a fellow
student or work colleague regarding your own emotional intelligence self-awareness.
A. SELF ANALYSIS
You are required to conduct a self-analysis to help you identify your own emotional strengths,
weaknesses, stressors, states, and triggers.
• You will need to identify and list at least THREE (3) of each of your emotional strengths,
weaknesses, stressors, states, and triggers.
B. PEER FEEDBACK
1. Once you have identified each of your emotional intelligence indicators, review your
analysis with a Peer (fellow student or work colleague) and gain their feedback. This
feedback can be recorded in the Feedback Box below.
Peer Signature:
Peer Name:
(Provide an original signature or an email
confirming completion of this task)
Relationship: Date:
2. Select ONE (1) of your emotional intelligence indicators that requires improvement.
Explain how you intend to improve this area of your emotional intelligence.
This task requires you to identify workplace situations and environments that may trigger an
emotional response in you. To complete this Assessment task, you will need to:
1. Provide an outline of your current (or previous) workplace environment. This should be in as
much detail as possible to provide context for this Assessment task (200 words minimum)
2. Outline at least TWO (2) specific workplace situations, incidents and/or environments you have
encountered and then identify the emotional responses that these situations triggered in you.
(Refer to your Emotional Intelligence Self-Analysis in Appendix One for assistance)
3. Explain how your responses from your self-analysis made you would feel and react if the same
situation occurred again.
4. How did you deal with the person involved in the situation?
6. What could you have done differently if the same situation occurred again?
D. SCENARIO
Joshua, who is normally very punctual for work, has been late on each of the past three days. You
decide to discuss this issue with him and meet Joshua alone in the staffroom.
Your submission should be prepared using business software such as MSWord, Excel,
Power Point, or similar software. (Handwritten submissions are only acceptable with prior
approval from your Trainer,)
Each task on this checklist must be found Satisfactory, to mark the assessment outcome as “Satisfactory”.
Student ID No:
The Scenario
Miguel is a new worker from South America. He commenced at your organisation six months ago
and is based on the assembly line of your factory where you bottled water for a large soft drink
supplier.
You are the supervisor of the section where Miguel works and during the past 4 weeks you have
been receiving feedback from his co-workers. It has been reported that that he is becoming angry
quite regularly with those colleagues he is in direct contact with on the assembly line. This includes
those that are in the filling process before his as well as the final boxing process which follows
Miguel’s section.
Whilst you have not observed this behaviour personally, you have received this feedback from
multiple sources. This has prompted you to speak with your HR Adviser as you require some
advice as to how to handle this situation. Your HR Advisor has subsequently recommended that
you facilitate a meeting with Miguel to determine what the issues are and work out potential
solutions to support him.
You arrange and facilitate a meeting with Miguel who asks for a support person to be present. This
is to help assist with any language and communication issues that may arise due to Miguel’s
limited English comprehension level.
During the course of the meeting you are able to determine that Miguel is feeling anger towards his
assembly line colleagues because he believes they are too slow and he has to wait for them to
finish before he can start on the next item on the assembly line. He also divulges that he is having
some issues with his family at home which is causing him some stress and anxiety whilst at work
as it means he is not able to be at home to help support his partner.
You are now feeling ready to start addressing this situation in conjunction with your colleagues and
your Manager.
Your manager has requested that you prepare a written report which should be based on the
outcomes of your meeting including the following topics:
• Any cultural behaviours and beliefs that may be impacting Miguel’s interactions with his
workplace colleagues
• Suggestions for how you and your team may be able to recognise and respond to the
emotional states of Miguel or other employees in your workplace
• Recommendations for how your own emotional intelligence can support and enhance your
team’s performance
• The topics/content you might cover if you were to facilitate a training session with your team to
promote the development of emotional intelligence of each of the teams in your workplace
including:
o How you can provide opportunities for team members to express their thoughts and
feelings
o The methods you can adopt to assist your team members to understand the effects of
their behaviour and emotions on others
o Ways you can encourage the self-management of the emotions of individual team
members.
o What your team can do to encourage their colleagues to express their thoughts and
feelings
o Suggestions for how you and your team can create a positive emotional climate in your
workplace
o How you can use the strengths of your team to achieve a positive climate
o Provide at least TWO (2) opportunities in your own workplace, or one with which you
are familiar, for you to improve the emotional intelligence of the workforce. Ensure your
suggestions are in line with company policies and procedures.
You are now ready to prepare the Written Report which you will then need to submit a copy
to your Manager (Trainer/Assessor) for review.
Your submission should be prepared using business software such as MSWord, Excel,
Power Point, or similar software. (Handwritten submissions are only acceptable with prior
approval from your Trainer).
Each task on this checklist must be found Satisfactory, to mark the assessment outcome as “Satisfactory”.
Student ID No:
2.2.B
• Provide opportunities for team Yes No Yes No Yes No
members to express emotions.
You will be required to undertake ONE (1) Assessment tasks to successfully complete this
component of the assessment. This Project Assessment will require you to demonstrate evidence
of your ability to:
• Promote the development of emotional intelligence in others.
Student Instructions:
1. You must complete the full project and provide enough information to demonstrate
sufficient understanding of what has been asked to achieve competency.
2. Your work on this assessment should be on a separate document using word processing
software such as MSWord & or other software (handwritten submissions are only
acceptable with prior approval from your Trainer)
3. Your document should be properly formatted and titled with the Unit Code and Assessment
number (e.g., BSBPEF502 Assessment 3).
4. Ask your trainer/assessor if you do not understand what is required in this assessment.
Whist your trainer/assessor cannot tell you the answer, he/she will be able to offer you
guidance in the requirements of the task or provide further assistance based on the
Institute’s “Reasonable Adjustment Policy”.
5. The document you produce should primarily be your own words and not plagiarised, nor
copied.
6. Material taken directly from other sources must be presented in quotation marks (““) and be
suitably referenced.
Your manager was so impressed with your written report that they have now asked you to facilitate
a training session with each of the teams in your workplace.
The main objective of this training session will be to promote and encourage awareness around
emotional intelligence.
You are therefore required to arrange a Training Session (Date, time, and venue to be negotiated
with your Trainer) in collaboration with your particular work team where you will present your
findings and promote the development of emotional intelligence with your team in your workplace.
The key resource to support the delivery and facilitation of your Training session will be a
PowerPoint Presentation (or similar). You will use this PowerPoint Presentation (or similar) during
the observation role play and a printed copy will need to be included with your final assessment
submission.
The Team Training Session Role Play should be at least 15 to 20 minutes in duration and cover
the following elements:
• How you plan to provide opportunities for team members to express their thoughts and feelings
• A discussion regarding the methods you plan to adopt to assist your team members to
understand the effects of their behaviour and emotions on others.
• The ways you intend to encourage the self-management of each team members emotions.
o What your team can do to encourage each other to develop their own emotional
intelligence
o How you and your team can create a positive emotional climate in your workplace
o How your team can use their combined strengths to achieve a positive workplace
climate
The Training Session you conduct in conjunction with your team will be observed by your
Manager (Trainer) and assessed using the Observation Checklist attached.
Your submission should be prepared using business software such as MSWord, Excel,
Power Point, or similar software. (Handwritten submissions are only acceptable with prior
approval from your Trainer,)
Each task on this checklist must be found Satisfactory, to mark the assessment outcome as “Satisfactory”.
Student ID No:
Time Observed:
- Working out how the team can create a Yes No Yes No Yes No
positive emotional climate in their
workplace
Yes No Yes No Yes No
- Determining how the team can use
their combined strengths to achieve a
positive workplace climate