Another categorisation on EI identifies the following 5 core areas:

Personal Skills

Self-awareness:  The ability to recognise and understand your emotions and moods and their effect on others

• Emotional Awareness: recognizing one’s emotions and their effect
• Self-confidence: A strong sense of one’s self-worth and capabilities
• Self-assessment: Knowing your limits and strength

Self-regulation:  The ability to control disruptive impulses and moods. Ability to think before acting

• Trustworthiness: Maintaining standards of honesty and integrity
• Self-control: Keeping disruptive emotions and impulses in check
• Conscientiousness: Being responsible for personal performance
• Innovation: Being comfortable with novel ideas, approaches and new information
• Adaptability: Being able to adapt and accept change

Interpersonal Skills

Self-motivation:  Enthusiasm and passion to put effort that will go beyond money or status

• Achievement driven: Wanting to get the best
• Commitment: Aligning with the goals of the group or organization
• Initiative: Being ready to act on opportunities
• Optimism: A positive outlook and persistence in pursuing goals despite obstacles

Empathy:  The ability to understand the emotional makeup of others and reacting accordingly

• Understanding others: Showing an active interest in others and sensing their feelings and perspectives
• Developing others: Detecting others development needs and helping out
• Leveraging diversity: Opportunities through different kinds of people
• Political Awareness: Ability to read a group’s power relationships and emotional status

Social skills:  The ability to build effective networks that can help you when you need them. Ability to build rapport with people

• Influence: Persuading others
• Listening Skills: Showing that you care and want to help
• Motivating others: Inspiring and guiding individuals or groups
• Conflict management: Resolving conflicts assertively and through negotiations
• Building relationships: Nurturing critical relationships
• Synergy: Energising groups towards common goals
• Change Catalyst: Initiating or managing change

As you can see, the framework is slightly different from the competencies that are measured. The framework and the competencies as a whole, will be covered in the next sections.