EQ-i 2.0^®

EQ-i 2.0 Workplace Report

Built for coaching, development, and real-world work environments, this report explores the impact of emotional intelligence on day-to-day workplace interactions. It provides suggestions and practical guidance for working more effectively with colleagues, supervisors, and clients. Both a coach and client version are generated to support meaningful feedback and development conversations.

Specific applications for this report are:

• Individual Development
• Organizational Development
• Career Counseling/Outplacement Services

EQ-i 2.0 Leadership Report

This report examines EQ-i 2.0 results across four key dimensions of leadership: Authenticity, Coaching, Insight, and Innovation. As an option, client results can be compared against those of top leaders, creating a powerful coaching benchmark for exceptional EI performance. The Leadership Report also contains insights into the leadership and organizational implications of your client's results, identifies skills with the highest potential to be leadership derailers, and offers targeted development strategies to help your client reach their full leadership potential.

Specific applications for this report are:

• Leadership development
• Executive development and coaching
• Developing high-potential leaders
• Compare results against the top leader as a benchmark

EQ-i 2.0 Group Report

Designed for organizations focused on team-level strategies and development, the Group Report enables impactful discussion of team-level implications of emotional intelligence. It combines individual EQ-i 2.0 scores to enable interpretation at the group or team level, while maintaining participant anonymity. The report highlights group strengths, identifies area for improved effectiveness, and examines EI implications at the organizational level—offering actionable strategies to further develop the group's potential.

Specific applications for this report are: 

• Providing group or team feedback on EQ-i 2.0 results
• Team building
• Improving group dynamics
• Providing an organizational summary or report of an EQ-i 2.0 program

Reliability

The reliability of an assessment is often referred to as its consistency.

 The two most important types of reliability for assessments are:

• Internal Consistency: refers to how well all the items of a certain scale measure the same idea
• Test-Retest: refers to how well the assessment can produce the same results over time for the same person

The EQ-i 2.0 exhibits strong reliability, both in terms of internal consistency and test-retest. This means that your clients’ scores will remain stable over time (unless development efforts are used to improve their scores) and that items measuring a certain subscale all tap into aspects of that subscale. 

Validity

Validity ensures the accuracy and usefulness of an assessment. Although there are many different types of validity, they all focus on ensuring the assessment is measuring what it was designed to measure and whether it can predict important outcomes and can be assessed through a combination of several different types of validity evidence.

The EQ-i 2.0 was originally developed in North America but has been used in all regions of the world. The structure of the test, the consistency and accuracy of the items, and the results produced have been replicated across the globe and continues to enable a wide variety of cultures and languages to use the tool effectively to measure emotional intelligence. Overall, the EQ-i 2.0 has extensive evidence supporting its external validity: Predicts job performance, can be used to predict and improve leadership competencies, holds up in different regions across the world and is based on a history of assessment research spanning decades.

The general population normative sample for the EQ-i 2.0 is extensive (N=4,000) and closely representative of adults residing in the US (90% of the sample) and Canada (10% of the sample) within 4% of census data. A customer-based professional global normative sample (N=10,000) consisting of 154 countries was updated in 2014.

Other normative samples are available for the US and Canada (professional), the UK and Ireland (general population and professional), Australia (general population), Denmark (professional), Sweden (professional), Netherlands (general population), South Africa (professional).