Dr. Gosling orginated the EASEQuadrant Model in 2002 for his doctoral thesis, as a theoretical framework for classifying and interpreting mental abilities scored using the Mayer-Salovey-Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test (MSCEIT™). EASEQuadrant is Dr. Gosling's vision of how emotional intelligence may be learned and applied to everyday living exercising emotional leadership; behaving with emotional intelligence in your relationships in the home, community, and workplace.

EASEQuadrant is a matrix for emotionally intelligent leadership; a structure for a training workshop in emotional leadership, which explores and develops an individual's emotional intelligence. Set on two axes of experiential emotional leadership and strategic emotional leadership, the model comprises four quadrants, each undergirded by a branch of the MSCEIT™: (1) Evaluating Perceptions (Perceiving emotion), (2) Attending to Mood (Using emotion), (3) Strengthening Knowledge (Understanding emotion), and (4) Enhancing Relationships (Managing emotion). Each quadrant is a right of passage along a journey to learning and applying emotionally intelligent behaviour to build a long-term feeling of trust in business, professional, and social relationships.

It is argued that perceiving and using emotion enhances experiential emotional leadership while understanding and managing emotion enhances strategic emotional leadership.

EASEQuadrant was created by Dr. Gosling to classify and interpret MSCEIT scores and teach successful leaders and others how to apply their emotional intelligence abilities in every day living. EASEQuadrant is underpinned by the mental ability model of emotional intelligence (Mayer, DiPaolo, Salovey, 1990; Mayer, Salovey, 1997; Salovey, Mayer, 1990) and is central to the classification and interpretation of the emotional intelligence of 86 managers who responded and were tested in this study by the online MSCEIT.

It is argued in this study that emotional intelligence in and of itself is valued as a capacity required for organisation effectiveness and individual performance. EASEQuadrant provides a framework that teaches successful leaders how to apply their emotional intelligence skills to achieve positive long-term change in behaviour leading to improved individual and organisation success.

The EASEQuadrant framework underpins Dr. Gosling's EASEQuadrant Professional Success System - EASEQuadrantPro.

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