TY  - JOUR
TI  - Emotional intelligence assessment in leadership succession management.
AU  - Palmer, B.
AU  - Lee, J.
AB  - This article reports the results of, and discusses methods for, using a behavior-based 360-degree emotional intelligence (EI) assessment to help determine the readiness of frontline leaders to step up into more senior leadership positions. Participants (n = 485) were frontline school leaders in a public school system who were rated by 2,435 raters on a 360-degree leadership assessment measuring leadership performance proficiency, the Genos Social and Emotional Competency Survey, and two global items measuring leadership capability: specifically, a single item measuring how well the participants interacted with others at work and a single item measuring the participants’ overall job performance. The EI 360 was shown to account for an additional 17% of the variance in how well the participants interacted with others at work and an additional 8% of the variance in their overall job performance over the leadership performance proficiency. Participants (n = 70) deemed “not yet ready” for more senior leadership positions (based on low observer-rated EI scores) participated in a longitudinal EI development program. Their EI was then retested using the same raters 6 months or more later. Comparisons of their Time 1 and Time 2 EI 360 results show that the EI development program improved how well participants demonstrated their EI by on average 43 percentile points. Although further research is needed to substantiate the claim, we argued these results show that an EI assessment can contribute significantly to organizational decisions on leadership talent above and beyond the more traditional measures used in this context. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)  
IS  - 3
JO  - Consulting Psychology Journal 
PY  - 2025
SP  - 285
EP  - 304
UR  - psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-24323-001
VL  - 77
LA  - English
ER  -