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The Top Tip For Making The Most Of Your IQ

February 28th, 2008 by Galba Bright

If a Mensa member shared his top tip for helping you make the most of your IQ, would you want to know more?

Tune your EQ reader, Ray Hobby’s revelation is unusual. It’s sure to get you thinking. He also explains exactly what an emotional intelligence coach CAN’T do for you. Finally, Ray warns why you must approach the results of Emotional Intelligence assessments carefully.

Be sure to read this article at least twice. It’s well worth bookmarking as well. There are lots of valuable insights to help you improve your quality of life .

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Ray’s Top Tip

“Perhaps the only tip I would risk offering to anyone is embodied in all the foregoing – as an intrinsic component in ALL that I now do professionally.”

Please – Please – THINK about your situation – no one can do that for you, not even the ‘best’ coach […whoever and whatever s/he is]. “

” A ‘good’ coach will NOT provide all your answers to all of your problems, but s/he may ask [some of] the right questions to enable you to find ‘a route’ so that you find your own answers.”

“With integrity you will then be able to find some of the other questions to facilitate the route so you can find more “about your [real] self.”

“Interestingly, as I have already said, it is important to recognise that IQ levels are not the full story …BUT the use of the word ‘integrity’ is so very important.”

“IQ tests – particularly the best [Cattell and Wechsler, for instance] - are so well structured [after some 80 years or so of development] that they are not easy to fool or fiddle. The IQ value is usually pretty accurate and taken from the content – you either know a synonym or an antonym …or you don’t - or follow a syllogistic link …or you can’t. So, an IQ number ‘suggests’ a level of intellectual intelligence.”

“EQ tests, however, can, to a certain extent, be fooled …unless they have a very strong 360 contribution from colleagues and close associates. (Ray’s argument is that a more reliable assessment includes the observations of other people, rather than relying on the information that the person being assessedprovides) . If you say that you help other people, for instance, when in reality you don’t care at all, then you will have an EQ rating that is not deserved, earned or realistic. “

“In consequence no genuine, personal development can take place. The questions examine your self knowledge and social relationships in various categories.”

Ray’s Provocative Closing Statement

“An EQ number, as an end result, is therefore meaningless, since it is the further consideration of the components that provide the basis for personal development and improvement.”

So Ray says that if you want to make the most of your IQ, you must THINK.

Could Ray’s tip help you make the most of your IQ?

How do feel about what Ray says about emotional intelligence coaching and assessment?

Ray believes that a good coach can help you by asking the right emotional intelligence questions.

Read my 13 Emotional Intelligence Questions Every Leader Should Ask guest post 4 part series for Steve Roesler’s All Things Workplace Blog.

Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4

Download The 13 Emotional Intelligence Questions Every Leader Must Ask in pdf format

This is the sixth article in the interview series between Ray Hobby and myself. In the next article, Ray explains why Emotional Intelligence is important.

Download the entire 5 question interview series with Ray Hobby in pdf format.

More Insights From Ray Hobby

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Is EQ Old or New?, Part 2

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