Overview

Before you can decide which strategies will help you improve your emotional intelligence, you need to know more about the current emotional intelligence skills you possess. In this assignment, you will take a short emotional intelligence test to learn more about your strengths and weaknesses. Then, you will outline some strategies to develop and improve on these skills.

Prompt

Take the Emotional Intelligence test and reflect on the results. Then, write a short paper to discuss the results and describe an action plan to improve your emotional intelligence.

Specifically, you must address the following rubric criteria:

• Summarize the results of the test:
  • Explain whether you agree with it and why.
  • Describe what you’ve learned from it, such as your strengths and weaknesses.
• Write at least two specific, measurable, attainable, realistic, and time-bound (SMART) goals to improve your emotional intelligence skills.
• Describe the strategies you will use to reach these goals.

Guidelines for Submission

Write and submit a short paper of about 500 to 750 words that describes an action plan to improve your emotional intelligence skills. Include all citations for resources you reference in APA format.

Module Eight Activity Rubric

CriteriaExemplary (100%)Proficient (85%)Needs Improvement (55%)Not Evident (0%)ValueExplain the Results of the TestExceeds proficiency in an exceptionally clear, insightful, sophisticated, or creative mannerSummarizes test results, provides well-thought out arguments to support or refute whole or part of the results, uses test results and self-reflection to identify strengths and weaknesses related to emotional intelligenceShows progress toward proficiency, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may include vague or generic explanation with minimal self-reflection and insightDoes not attempt criterion20Create Goals to Improve Emotional IntelligenceExceeds proficiency in an exceptionally clear, insightful, sophisticated, or creative mannerDescribes at least two specific, measurable, attainable, realistic, and time-bound (SMART) goals to improve emotional intelligence skillsShows progress toward proficiency, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may include missing, incomplete, or vague goalsDoes not attempt criterion30Describe Strategies to Improve Emotional IntelligenceExceeds proficiency in an exceptionally clear, insightful, sophisticated, or creative mannerDescribes at least one relevant strategy each to reach the identified goalsShows progress toward proficiency, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may include missing or vague details about proposed strategies, missing details about how they will help reach a specific goalDoes not attempt criterion30Articulation of ResponseExceeds proficiency in an exceptionally clear, insightful, sophisticated, or creative mannerClearly conveys meaning with correct grammar, sentence structure, and spelling, demonstrating an understanding of audience and purposeShows progress toward proficiency, but with errors in grammar, sentence structure, and spelling, negatively impacting readabilitySubmission has critical errors in grammar, sentence structure, and spelling, preventing understanding of ideas15Citations and AttributionsUses citations for ideas requiring attribution, with few or no minor errorsUses citations for ideas requiring attribution, with consistent minor errorsUses citations for ideas requiring attribution, with major errorsDoes not use citations for ideas requiring attribution5Total: