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Assessing Social Awareness Checklist

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"Assessing Social Awareness Checklist"

This checklist provides you with a quick and easy way to assess the social awareness aspect of emotional intelligence. With good social awareness you can accurately read situations and people because you are able to understand and empathize with their emotions.

Management is about getting work done and achieving objectives through other people. If you have poor or no understanding of others and you cannot relate to them you will have difficulty being successful in this role.

This often means perceiving what other people are thinking and feeling even if you do not feel the same way. It's easy to get caught up in your emotions and forget to consider the perspective of the other party. Social awareness ensures you stay focused and absorb critical information. Listening and observing are the most important elements of social awareness.

There are several research studies that show EQ is becoming an increasingly important factor in those who succeed in the workplace. This enables individuals to be more suited to more autonomous work environments common today. The less autocratic management style prevalent in such organizations improves the individual's productivity. This enables people to gain recognition in the more knowledge based, team working and customer focused roles.

To assess your level of social awareness aspect of your EQ 'social' competencies you need to expand your awareness to include the emotions of those people around you and not just your own emotions. Your ability to be socially aware of other emotions requires you to demonstrate the following competencies:

  • Empathy
  • Organizational Awareness
  • Service Orientation


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