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Nature of Requirements:
Tool to assess Emotional Intelligence
Title:
The Canada School of Public Service has a requirement for the
use of an instrument to assess emotional intelligence in
individuals and allow them to develop an action plan and a
commitment plan.
Background:
The School is the common learning service provider for the
Public Service of Canada. It was created to bring a unified
approach to serving the common learning and development needs of
federal public service employees and to help ensure that all
public service employees across Canada have the knowledge and
skills they need to deliver results for Canadians. The School
supports meeting the learning needs of the Public Service of
Canada through training and development that enables the Public
Service community to meet evolving challenges in fulfilling
their mission of serving Canada and Canadians. The School is
committed to promoting a strong corporate culture in the Public
Service, creating a culture of learning, and being a catalyst
and resource for the ongoing development of the Public Service
as a learning organization.
Note: Additional information about the School and about the
courses being offered can be found on the following website
address:
http://www.myschool-monecole.gc.ca/
Some leadership and management courses use in their programming
an instrument to assess one's own emotional intelligence and
develop an action plan and a commitment plan. This feedback
plays a central role and is essential to assist managers and
executives at all levels of their professional development.
Objective:
CSPS requires an instrument to assess emotional intelligence
that complies with the requirements stated below in this
Statement of Requirement.
The Specific Requirements:
The emotional intelligence instrument must perform or include
the following:
· evaluate different components of emotional and social skills,
for example: how one perceives him/herself, how one expresses
him/herself, the interpersonal skills of oneself, how one is
equipped to deal with stress and any other social skills.
· be composed of a series of questions aimed at identifying
emotional and social skills
· capture the positive and negative impressions
1) OBJECTIVENESS
Must be free of test-bias
2) STANDARDIZED
Must have been statistically analyzed to prove validity,
standardization and reliability.
The normative sample must be based on self report ratings
Must be broken down in different age groups
Must have a rating scale to allow individuals to qualify or
quantify his/her answer Examples: numerical - 0 to 3 or 0 to 5.
Qualitative : often, seldom,etc.
3) RELIABLE
Must have an inconsistency index to detect illegitimate responses
Be based on current and valid scientific research
4) PREDICTIVE
5) NON-DISCRIMINATORY
Sample must include men and women in each age group
Must be representative of North American general population
6) USABILITY
Must have an on-line portal
Must provide report options and customization such as leadership
report, management report, coaching report, etc.
Be appropriate for a workplace environment, specifically for
management and executive level employees and for leadership
development purposes
Must include a report to summarize participants results
Report must be personalized and presented in a clear format with
graphs and narrative
Must be totally administered by the School in the sense that the
School will send invitations, monitor completion, print reports
for participants and coaches
Include a detailed action plan and a commitment plan
Be available in both French and English and be localised;
Must be ordered on-line 'just in time' depending on needs
Must have an on-line resource center for the certified
coaches/debriefers.
Completed questionnaires must reside on a protected Web site and
be confidential
Delivery Date: Above-mentioned
The Crown retains the right to negotiate with suppliers on any
procurement.
Documents may be submitted in either official language of Canada.
