The chairman, Abia State Disability Commission, Mr David Anyaele has emphasized the importance of emotional intelligence in inter personal relationship, adding that it builds the ability to understand yourself and your environment.
Anyaele said this at the day two of leadership training organised for persons with disabilities in Abia State held in Umuahia.
He stated that emotional intelligence assists one to understand the people he or she is dealing with and will guide you in behaviour towards one another.
As organisations of people with disabilities, whose current agenda focuses on public engagement, Anyaele said the need to apply high level of emotional intelligence in inter personal relationship becomes very critical.
“Therefore, if it must be achieved, their organisational goal, sustain their membership, attract collaboration and cohesion within them, their capacity and capability to apply emotional intelligence in all they do will be a primary concern to them”.
According to David, if the leaders of the organisations of people with disabilities succeed, their members will succeed, their families will succeed and the state will equaly benefit from them.
He pointed out that bulk of the challenge people with disabilities have across Nigeria is that because of high level of deprivation which undermine their general wellbeing, some times they throw away issues that have to do with paying attention to their emotions, which makes them behving in a way that tends to creat disharmony between them and the public.
He stressed that if the training is able to The chairman of Abia State Disability Commission Mr David Anyaele has emphasized the need for emotional intelligence in inter personal relationship, because it builds the ability to understand yourself and your environment.
Anyaele said this at the day two of leadership training for persons with disabilities in Abia State held in Umuahia.
He stated that emotional intelligence will assist you understand the people you are dealing with and will guide you in one’s behaviour towards one another.
As an organisations of people with disabilities, whose current agenda focuses on public engagement, Anyaele stressed the need to apply high level emotional intelligence in inter personal relationship becomes very critical. Therefore, if it must be achieved, their organisational goal, sustain their membership, attract collaboration and cohesion within them, their capacity and capability to apply emotional intelligence in all they do will be a primary concern to them.
According to David, if the leaders of the organisations of people with disabilities succeed, their members will succeed, their families will succeed and the state will equaly benefit from them.
He pointed out that bulk of the challenge people with disabilities have across Nigeria is that because of high level of deprivation which undermine their general wellbeing, some times they throw away issues that have to do with paying attention to their emotions, which makes them behving in a way that tends to creat disharmony between them and the public.
He strrssed that if the training is able to address this issue, the commission must have done much for people with disabilities in the state. this issue, the commission must have done much for people with disabilities in the state.
A resource person from Lagos Mr Adegbemi King said part of the modules include effective communication of persons with disabilities because they are leaders in their own rights and have members in their clusters.
He stated that they serve as preasure groups some times and need to lobby and appeal to the government to pay attention to their clusters, and all of that require effective communication.
Mr Adegbemi said they dived into public speaking to teach them how to communicate well and how they can prepare their message, how they can deliver their message and how to deliver their need appropriately using the right medium, the right language to pass the message.
King also handled team development, stressing that as leaders, they work with teams, because no leader can survive alone. He noted that the team need to work with people and need to understand the people and being careful because of emotional intelligence which is an integral part of leadership.
He stated that the three major skills for any leader to succceasful, needs the cognitive ability, technical ability and the greatest emotional intelligence.
According to him, the skills help leaders to interact with people and understand how to be self aware, understand how to self manage yourself, understand social awareness, understand relationship management.
He maintained that all these are the four domains of emotional intelligence and they are very critical if you will be succceasful as a leader, “because one of the things i observe with disability persons probably because of the label the society has placed on them for very long time, they tend to be very aggressive by nature because they feel people want to take advantage of them, some delibrately abuse them, take advantage of their weaknesses, because of that, some of them tend to be unnecesserrily agitated and angry.
Also in a lecture on time management, Dr Charles Oboli charged them to do away with procrastination and lack of focus. He reminded them to delegate some engagements to others, as such will take care of unwanted stress, enhance workflow, poor professional reputation, financial penalties among others.
Dr Charles Oboli further described time as a systematically prioritizing tasks and competing demands to complete the most important tasks within a certain amount of time.
He therefore advised people especially leaders to always sir down and do a plan log.
Dr Oboli identified prioritization, goal setting and avioding procrastination as the principles of effective time management and techniques.
He also encouraged people to list their tasks and categorize them accordingly to help them manage their time appropriately in whatever thing they want to do.
