Change how your leaders read the room with the Mayer Salovey Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test, Second Edition (MSCEIT® 2)
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WorkPsych is proud to be distributing and administrating the Mayer-Salovey-Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test™ Second Edition (MSCEIT® 2), designed to objectively measure adults’ actual emotional intelligence skills.
- Executive Coaches,
- HR Practitioners,
- OD Consultants,
- Psychologists,
- Social Workers,
- Counsellors or Clinicians,
- Researchers.
More about the Mayer-Salovey-Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test™ Second Edition (MSCEIT® 2)
Developed by academics at Yale and the University of New Hampshire, the Mayer-Salovey-Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test™ Second Edition (MSCEIT® 2) is a unique measure of emotional intelligence (EI).
What differentiates MSCEIT® 2 ?
1. The MSCEIT® 2 defines emotional intelligence as an ability or skill to reason about emotions and emotion-related information to enhance thinking and decision making’.
2. Based on scenarios typical of everyday life, the MSCEIT®2’s items measure how well people perform tasks and solve emotional problems.
3. The MSCEIT®2 rests on an assumption that an individual’s EI skills can be coached and developed through self awareness, reflection and practice.
4. Offers a direct and objective measure of emotional intelligence distinctive and complementary to inferences that are derived from trait-based (self report) or behavioural approaches.
The MSCEIT® 2 report provides an overall EI ability score (also known as Total EI), as well as scores for the following four factorially supported domains:
Perceiving Emotions - The skills needed to perceive and accurately identify emotions in people and their environments. Accurately identify emotional cues in the moment and as they emerge both in oneself (somatically) and in others (reading between the lines, paying attention to facial expressions and other non verbals)
Connecting Emotions - The skills needed to feel and use emotions to assist thought and connect with others through empathy. Use this emotional information to make 'in the moment' decisions to bring the best out of interpersonal interactions
Understanding Emotions -The skills needed to understand emotional information, including the meaning, causes, changes and implications of emotionally related information.
Managing Emotions -The skills needed to be open to your own emotions and those of other people, and the ability to reflectively manage emotions in oneself and others to make optimal decisions.
THE MSCEIT® 2 REPORT (Sample)
Click here to download the sample report.
HOW DOES IT WORK?
The MSCEIT® 2 invites respondents to review and respond to items containing problems with emotionally related information, which contain more and less accurate responses, offering an indication of EI performance and skill.
This creates opportunities to directly measure skills in an unmediated manner.
Reliability and Validity
Demonstrating strong construct validity, users can trust that the MSCEIT® 2 is in fact measuring the ability to perceive, connect, understand and manage emotions.
Exhibiting strong reliability, both in terms of internal consistency and test-retest reliability, means that respondent’s scores will remain stable over time, unless targeted developmental efforts or coaching is being applied to improve specific emotional intelligence related skills.
MSCEIT® 2 APPLICATIONS
The MSCEIT® 2 is a versatile assessment that can be used in various contexts to provide greater insight into an individual’s ability to perceive emotions, connect with emotions, understand emotions, and manage emotions.
It’s application is particularly useful for individuals seeking to develop the skills to navigate the more dynamic, unpredictable and challenging interpersonal and social interactions.
Workplace
Selection and Promotion
For roles where EI is an important skill, the MSCEIT® 2 can be used to help identify candidates with more developed skills, as well as identify areas which may require attention and training for new managers or leaders.
EI is essential for sustainable and effective leadership. Leaders must understand how to navigate emotional responses to build and maintain interpersonal relationships and motivate and influence others.
Developmental Planning for Emerging Leaders & Coaching Programmes
The MSCEIT® 2 report offers more than data—it invites leaders to reflect deeply on when and how they’re leveraging these critical abilities.
Equipped with their MSCEIT® 2 results, leaders face a pivotal question: given what you now know about your capabilities, what changes are you willing to make to elevate how you show up?
For those facilitating a debrief—whether an L&D leader, executive coach, or other professional—the MSCEIT® 2 can be a powerful catalyst for bringing about individual change and insight.
Training and development
A large part of effective and smooth teamwork is ensuring that members pay attention and consider their own and others’ emotionally-related cues when making day-to-day or ‘moment to moment’ decisions. Cultivate team growth through educational workshops aimed at raising team members awareness of the MSCEIT® 2 model of emotional intelligence, it’s importance in day to day interactions, and inviting them to complete an assessment which enables them to reflect deeply on when and how they are leveraging such skills.
Research
The MSCEIT® 2 can be used in research when a comprehensive measure of overall EI ability is needed or when a researcher is interested in measuring only a specific domain
EI - Assessment and Development
Assessment, Coaching and Leadership Development
We offer each participating leader:
1) A confidential 90-minute developmentally-focussed debrief,
2) A user friendly and practical report which presents their overall score, overview of their results on each domain and related tasks, points for reflection and tangible development strategies