Emotionally Intelligent Leadership for Students: Inventory

The Emotionally Intelligent Leadership for Students: Inventory is a valid and reliable, quantitative and qualitative, self assessment of emotionally intelligent leadership skills. The inventory is built on the three facets and twenty-one capacities of emotionally intelligent leadership as described in the authors' book Emotionally Intelligent Leadership: A Guide for College Students. The Inventory helps students uncover their own emotionally intelligent leadership skills and includes guidance for further development on the capacities where the student has growth potential.

“Intelligent, user-friendly, and grounded in research, the Emotionally Intelligent Leadership for Students: Inventory provides a critical tool for the inner and outer work of developing leaders. Shankman and Allen’s model clarifies emotional intelligence for emerging leaders, and now this tool brings it to life.” —Tony Middlebrooks, School of Urban Affairs and Public Policy, University of Delaware

“Shankman and Allen have created a holistic, yet simple tool for educators to teach students how to enhance their leadership capacity. They have masterfully condensed years of leadership research into an intuitive framework that can be easily facilitated by just about anyone.” — Judson A. Horras, Administrative Secretary, Beta Theta Pi Foundation and Administrative Office

“The Emotionally Intelligent Leadership for Students: Inventory is a highly effective instrument for high school students because it provides an opportunity for self-assessment that is intentionally authentic and viewed as practically valuable to their lives.” —Todd R. Sweda, Assistant Headmaster, Gilmour Academy, Ohio

“The Emotionally Intelligent Leadership for Students Inventory is a fresh, approachable, and important contribution to a student leader’s toolbox. The concept of developing ‘edge experiences’ with ‘intentionality’ is sure to motivate both the novice as well as even the most skilled leaders.” —Darby Miller Steiger, Consultant