Formerly The Work-Place Swinburne University Emotional Intelligence Test (SUEIT), the Genos EI Assessment Scale was constructed as a competency based 360-degree multi-rater measure of emotional intelligence, designed specifically as a leadership development tool for Australian workplace applications. Developed by Dr Con Stough, professor of cognitive sciences, and colleague Dr Benjamin Palmer, at Melbourne's Swinburne University, it was commercialised and marketed by Genos Pty Ltd, in association with Swinburne University of Technology. Today, it is one of the leading emotional intelligence assessment tools in Australia for use in the recruitment process and in training and development programs. And highlights the role of emotional intelligence in individual and work-team performance, management and effective leadership.

The Genos EI Assessment Scale can be applied as a self-test or as a 360-degree assessment to index the way people typically think, feel and act with emotions at work, according to an empirically-based five-factor model of emotional intelligence. It provides an overall score indicating an individual's general work-place emotional intelligence and five sub-scale scores indicating more specific capacities according to the five dimensions of the model. "Raters can include the subject themselves ('or self-ratings'), and manager(s), peers and direct reports ratings thus the term 360-degree" (Palmer & Stough 2005).

Those taking the text respond on a five-point scale asking them to indicate the extent to which the statements (items) are true of the way they typically think, feel and act at work (1 = never, 2 = seldom, 3 = sometimes, 4 = usually, 5 = always). With 123 items, the work place Genos EI takes around half an hour to complete.