Emotional Intelligence Instruments

Reflect on what you learned about the concept of emotional intelligence based on what you read
in your textbook and online. Based on your results with the EI tools, summarize your results
and discuss your strengths and weaknesses with respect to emotional intelligence.
Then discuss the concept with a loved one, friend, or trusted colleague. What are their
perceptions with respect to your self-appraisal?
Your Answer:
I feel that I am very emotionally intelligent in every situation except for one. That is when I
receive feedback in a non-constructive way from a superior. These moments are my stressors
that put me into a resistance phase of my stress cycle. I cannot seem to control my anger and I
just end up walking away so that I do not say something I will regret later which is a result of me
understanding my emotions at the time, but not being able to control them. I feel this is my only
weakness as far as EI. I have had this conversation with my mentor, and he is working with me
on this skill. He agrees that it is my main weakness and that I am very strong in every other
aspect of leadership and emotional intelligence.
Radical Experiment in Empathy
What did you think of the "Radical Experiment in Empathy" video? Were you able to “step
outside of your thoughts and behavioral patterns” and reserve a part of your mental capacity to
“listen” to and monitor your internal reactions as a means of gaining a deeper insight into the
nature of yourself? What’s your perspective on this notion of “self-awareness” in the present
moment as a tool to learn more about yourself? Was this “radical experiment” an effective one
in terms of helping you understand the concept of empathy?
Make some connections between the “Radical Experiment in Empathy” TED Talk and the ideas
you have been reading and learning about this week. Be sure to describe your connections
carefully and use in-text cites as applicable.
Your Answer:
I think his point of being able to have empathy with someone we hate means it should be easy to
have empathy for everyone else. I was able to understand and think about what he was asking us
to do, but it was still very hard to feel ill towards the American soldiers and their family. I did
feel that I gained some self-awareness of understanding that people’s opinions are made from
the information they have, which may not be all of the information. Even myself. I think this was
a great example of how empathy works on a grand scale. This is also a great example of
organization commitment, the organization being the country and religion for each group.