The Booth Company introduces the new Executive Leadership Survey (ELS) (http://www.boothco.com/solutions/overview-of-360-solutions.php) has included three new dimensions in the new ELS: "Awareness of Others,"Self-Awareness" and "Self Management." These additions allow the executive to receive confidential feedback regarding his or her abilities to professionally interact with others, master personal impulses, and make rational choices in situations that often involve pressure and disagreement.
Evaluating such competencies has become an increasingly common industry practice in recent years, typically under the label of "emotional intelligence." Known as "E.Q." (Emotional
Intelligence Quotient) - primarily to differentiate it from the more traditional intelligence assessment, I.Q. (Intelligence Quotient) - emotional intelligence provides an interesting
model to assess interpersonal leadership skills and rationality in pressured decision-making situations. However, this approach has also received its share of criticism, mostly stemming
from emotional intelligence tests that evaluate personality traits and characteristics instead of skills and abilities that may be developed.
The new ELS dimensions and their time-tested counterparts (such as "Business & Financial Acumen,"Industry & Market Insight," and "Organizational Savvy") combine to provide the
executive with feedback from peers that is used to develop relevant skills. In this way the new E.Q. dimensions reliably augment the 360 feedback assessment (