MCeFF Programme

The e-Factor® is designed from research with adults, not for children and adolescents so we can’t support use or applications with those under 18 years of age. We are working in parallel on a children’s model, and assessment methodology, as our goal is to get EI into the 4–9-year-old demographic. Prevention of emotional skill problems, as children grow up, is, in our view, much more humane and simpler than resourcing, and defaulting to, prisons and increased mental health care demand.

In addition to the interpretation notes attached to each profile, we provide all participants with a link to the ‘Making Sense of your e-Factor® Score’ guide. This is also included in a wider Manual about interpreting profiles for you. You can use that for reference in facilitation discussions of course. We have mapped knowledge, understanding and skills against each of the 12 competences. This helps learners and coaches/trainers to develop interventions that will increase the scores. We built our MSc (https://www.eiagroup.com/course/masters-degree-in-communication-behaviour-and-credibility-analysis/) on this curriculum (apart from criminology aspects) so that syllabus gives you a good idea. We are adding an optional module instead of criminology on “Individual Differences, Traits and Personality” as this is a gap we need to fill for the e-Factor® range of factors.

It must be taken online as it’s a time-controlled test deployed from our LMS. Profiles are instant following submission of the last response emailed to the client as back up. The reliability of the platform is high, subject to internet connections at the user end, but live coaching should be planned for when the client has completed all 3 tests. We recommend face-to-face sessions (or virtual ones like ‘Zoom’ so screens and profiles can be shared by those clients who feel safe with you to do that). Some may just choose to focus the sessions on what they feel are their priorities (elicited at the start).

The e-Factor® is a generic tool that includes a mixture of work and life contexts, so the outcome represents the whole person. We also recognize that those with high EI might not have ‘well-being’ or ‘pro-social’ agendas or goals (e.g., competitive sport, rival businesses). We hope they do, but we chose not to bias the tool towards specific roles or values. That would possibly introduce cultural bias and is outside the scope of EQ, as in IQ.

An e-Factor® facilitator may only administer e-Factor® once they have successfully completed the following stages:

• a post-course online test to check you fully understand the instrument and the facilitation processes (70%+),
• attended (live) the 2 x three-day MCeFF workshops,
• passed ongoing EIA Tutor assessment during the workshop around your development and adherence to the principles and processes expected of a professional MCeFF, and
• achieve the required e-Factor® score of 140,

–      received the MCeFF Certificate.

EIA will provide you with a range of resources, some that you can share freely with e-Factor® clients, plus a series of templates and guidance notes that help you to help users to convert the data from their profiles into meaningful PDPs. This includes the research behind the model and e-Factor® and we will supplement that with validation reports on an ongoing basis to help you and your clients stay up to date with its impact. We will also provide a curriculum outline matrix, and an extensive repository of EIAs models, files, so that you incorporate those knowledge, understanding and skills resources to underpin each of the 12 competencies to help users to build their EI capabilities.

That is up to you and EIA will not be asking for, or expecting, any commissions or any percentage of your income. You cannot offer e-Factor® assessments publicly at prices less than the EIA prices but you can bundle assessments into wider products as you wish.