Identifying your own emotions
Recognising what you feel, distinguishing similar emotions and understanding their triggers. Naming an emotion helps you use it as information.
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Emotional intelligence: understanding and assessing your skills
Understanding emotions and taking them into account can support decision-making, communication and relationships.
Emotional intelligence does not mean always being calm, feeling everything intensely or accurately guessing what others think. It involves abilities and skills that can vary between people and situations.
Six skills to explore
Perceiving other people’s emotions
Attending to words, tone and expressions while checking your interpretations. Empathy does not guarantee accurate knowledge of another person’s inner experience.
Using emotions in thinking
Using feelings to notice what matters, guide attention or explore a problem. Intuition can be a useful starting point, but should be checked against the facts.
Expressing emotions
Communicating feelings clearly and in a way suited to the situation. This also means choosing the moment and expressing needs without blaming the other person.
Regulating emotions
Finding ways to experience an emotion and act alongside it, rather than trying to feel nothing. Helpful strategies depend on intensity, context and available resources.
Understanding your impact on others
Anticipating the possible effects of your words and adjusting how you communicate. This does not mean controlling other people’s emotions or being responsible for keeping everyone happy.
An established research topic with several models
In Mayer, Salovey and Caruso’s ability model, emotional intelligence involves four broad dimensions: perceiving emotions, using them to facilitate thought, understanding them and managing them. The six skills presented here are practical pointers, not a universal classification.
Other models explore how people describe themselves, or broader skills that overlap with personality. These approaches do not assess exactly the same things, and their results are not directly interchangeable.
How is it assessed, and what does EQ mean?
Emotional intelligence is assessed through an emotional and personality assessment. A scientifically grounded evaluation combines validated instruments suited to the abilities being explored, an in-depth clinical interview and rigorous interpretation of the results. This approach clarifies emotional skills and how they relate to personality, personal history and relationships.
Emotional Quotient (EQ) provides a reference point for comparing the abilities assessed with the norms of the instrument used. The assessment gives this result meaning by examining strengths, difficulties and how these abilities appear in everyday life. An online screening questionnaire can guide initial reflection; an emotional and personality assessment explores the questions in depth and evaluates the profile.
High Emotional Potential
High Emotional Potential refers to particularly strong emotional abilities, notably in perceiving and understanding emotions, using them in thinking and regulating them.
Discovering your High Emotional Potential can be an essential step towards understanding yourself. Assessment helps you make sense of your personal history, emotions and relationships, understand past experiences and recognise strengths that may have gone unnoticed for years. This discovery offers practical ways to live more comfortably with your sensitivity, express your needs and build more fulfilling relationships.
Assessment also explores sensitivity and its relationship with emotional skills. It reveals an individual profile, including strengths and abilities that can develop further.
Emotional intelligence, IQ and creativity
Emotional, cognitive and creative intelligence offer complementary strengths. Exploring them together helps clarify what makes a profile distinctive: how a person reasons, feels, imagines and relates to others. Recognising these strengths supports choices that better suit their needs and ways of functioning.
Skills you can develop
Learning to name emotions, check interpretations, express needs and try regulation strategies may improve everyday life. The aim is greater freedom in how you respond, not an obligation to control everything. Emotional and personality assessment can take place at the practice or online.
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