Emotional Skills Assessment Process® – ESAP®

The Emotional Skills Assessment Process® (ESAP®) is a cornerstone positive assessment instrument of Emotional Intelligence Learning Systems, Inc.  The instrument was created for students and educators in 1998 and now exists in four forms.  The original 213-item education ESAP® is available online and also embedded in the instrument’s authors’ book.  Two shorter parallel forms (ESAP-A/B®) are also used by educational institutions and suitable for use in pre- and post-test research designs.  Our shortest version, the ESAP-C®, was designed to engage employees meaningfully in corporate settings and includes an extended profile report for self-guided or facilitated learning of ESAP skills.

Why Use the ESAP® in Education & Training Programs?

• A positive self-assessment to identify current strengths and target areas for focused skill development and/or change of problematic behaviors
• Research-derived with a long and substantive research base and integral for person-centered teaching and learning for self and leadership development
• A valid and reliable measure of constructive thinking and emotional intelligence skills that engender effective and productive behaviors
• ESAP skills profile is a map or guide for students to use for positive self development and provides the first essential step for Emotional Learning System
• Extensive research and experience over the last four decades suggest that skills and behaviors measured by ESAP are related to high achievement and healthy outcomes
• ESAP profile is the visual and cognitive model for developing intelligent self-direction for learners in education and training programs
• A reflective learning tool that is valid and reliably measures on how we currently think about: (1) how we think, (2) how we identify, manage and express emotions, and (3) how we choose our behaviors
• ESAP skills lead to intelligent self direction – the top priority skill for effective leadership and work in the 21^stcentury
• Doctoral research links emotional intelligence with academic achievement, college success, personal and organizational excellence
• Research studies have identified the need to provide emotional intelligence instruction as an experience based curricula to improve levels of engagement in learning, academic achievement, program completion, and personal well-being
• Emotional intelligence and transformative learning are learned
•  ESAP is a learning tool and a positive assessment of current skills and provides a meaningful way to explore the key skills for high performance and healthy outcomes
• ESAP is a tool for understanding how your emotions work and gain the positive contributions of the emotional mind
• ESAP is organized around 4 skill competency areas: Interpersonal, Leadership, Self Management, and Intrapersonal Skills
• Leads to adaptability, healthy adjustment, effective transitions for work and career
• ESAP emotional intelligence skills are related to achievement, performance, healthy behaviors, leadership, and well-being
• ESAP Interpersonal Skills teach the value and importance of healthy and effective relationships as keys to successful living and working.  The business of life is relationships and relationships are key to career, life, and leadership success
• Leading with emotional intelligence requires a commitment to personal excellence and to learn and model key leadership ESAP skills of Social Awareness/Comfort, Empathy, Decision Making, and Positive Influence
• ESAP Self Management Skills are essential for high achieving behaviors, attitudes, and intelligent self-direction.  Self Management skills are key to high goal achievement, personal responsibility, and character development
• ESAP Intrapersonal Skills improve our overall outlook in life, quality of life, confidence, and improves survival skills.  Intrapersonal skills are essential for personal health, a sense of well-being, and managing the pressures and stress of life experiences
• ESAP and Personal Excellence Map are integrated in self and leadership programs. Personal Excellence Map and PEM 360 process for pursing personal excellence and leadership development in organizations are already used in Air Force programs.  ESAP and Personal Excellence Map are already used together in Air University programs.

Education Institutions With Firsthand ESAP® Experience

Abilene Christian University, Abilene, Texas

Air University, Maxwell-Gunter Air Force Base, Alabama

Coastal Bend College-Alice, Beeville, and Kingsville, Texas

College of the Mainland, Texas City, Texas

Galveston College, Galveston, Texas*

Hallmark College, San Antonio, Texas

McLennan Community College, Waco, Texas*

San Antonio College, San Antonio, Texas

San Jacinto College, Houston, Texas

Scott & White Medical Center, Temple, Texas

St. Edward’s University, Austin, Texas

South Texas College, McAllen, Texas

Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi

Texas A&M University-Kingsville

Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas

Tshwane University of Technology, Pretoria, South Africa

University of North Texas, Denton, Texas

University of the Southern Caribbean, Trinidad

* Used as defining elements of the Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP) and accreditation process.