"Mastering the art of leadership is a lifelong endeavor..." Michael Useem, Wharton Professor and Director of the Wharton Center for Leadership and Change Management.
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Welcome to the My EQ Deep Dive. This page provides you with a quick overview of My EQ Deep Dive. It addresses 6 key questions: 
You have completed a personality assessment which measured you on a number of personality dimensions that relate to emotional intelligence (commonly referred to as EQ or Emotional Quotient).
The purpose of My EQ is to provide you with tools to develop your EQ and in so doing enhance your leadership effectiveness.
We have divided My EQ into three phases or smaller journeys.
Journey 1: Self - Regulation
Journey 2: Working with People
Journey 3: Managing Tasks
There is strong evidence that EQ is critical to leadership and business success. For instance, a study done by Daniel Goleman makes a compelling case for the role of EQ in leadership:
Studies have shown that people with high EQ have greater mental health, exemplary job performance, and more potent leadership skills. For example, Goleman’s research in his book, Working with Emotional Intelligence, indicated that EQ accounted for 67% of the abilities deemed necessary for superior performance in leaders, and mattered twice as much as technical expertise or IQ.[5] (Wikipedia)
You will be using a number of Tools and Activities to help you to develop your EQ in each of your three My EQ journeys:
The Tools Are:
- This Website - This doubles up as the manual which explains how to go about your development.
- Roadmap - This is a tool which will help you to prioritise your development.
- Expert Guides - This is a detailed feedback report on the personality test you did.
- Workbooks - There is a companion workbook for each of the personality dimensions on which you were assessed. This is the engine room of your development and provides you with 7 development activities.
- Expert Tutor - This is a process that will help you to do an EQ Workout which is an intensive self - development exercise
The Activities Are:
- Increasing Insight and Self - Awareness
- Implementing Coaching Suggestions
- Recommended Readings
- Developing Target Behaviors
- The EQ Workout
- Deepening Insights
- Reflection
You will be applying a combination of these development activities to address your development areas. Each Tool and Activity will be discussed in detail later in Modules 2 and 3 respectively.
My EQ is a journey. It is not a training program or a quick fix that will magically improve your EQ. Every journey in life takes time and effort. My EQ is no different. It is like anything else in life. What you put in, is what you will get out. How far you progress on this journey depends on you. We can't make you emotionally more intelligent. We are confident though, that if you carry out the recommendations we make with respect to improving your emotional intelligence, that there will be learning and growth with respect to your EQ.
This depends entirely on you. You can do it superficially, in which case it may take you a week or two. Or you can do it thoroughly in which case it could take up to a year. Or you can consider it a lifelong journey and keep referring back to it as a lifelong coach that will lead to ever deepening self - insight and personal growth.
We like to think of it as a lifelong journey. Increasing self - awareness, which is the fundamental pillar of My EQ, is an ongoing requirement for personal growth. It is not an event. Uncovering our blind spots and deepening our understanding of ourselves and how we behave in different situations is a lifelong task.
We are confident that you will be able to use the tools and information we provide you in this course for the rest of your life, making you not only a better leader, but also enriching you in many other areas of your life as well.
Embrace it!
Any journey requires preparation. There are three modules that will help you to prepare for My EQ and that will show you how to use the Development Tools and Activities. Please work through them carefully before starting with the Three Journeys.
