The Registrar of Takoradi Technical University, Dr. Moses Maclean Abnory has called on educational administrators and institutions to actively adopt emotional intelligence in their daily activities to create awareness and maturity which would enable people embrace the current challenging agile environment.
According to him, in ensuring emotional intelligence in an institution, its council and management must buy a commitment to ensure that new recruits and older staff are taken through emotional intelligence training.
He also extended the call to all religious bodies, church workers especially counsellors, the youth, politicians, traditional authorities, parents, family institutions, cooperate institutions and organizations, transport operators and security organizations.
“Can we cautiously make sure that the youth of today appreciate the need to develop both their IQs and EQs in our trainings…?”
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Speaking at a public lecture on “Emotional Intelligence: Myth or Reality” at the Takoradi Technical University, he said confidentiality is one of the key areas of managing emotional intelligence.
He said unrealistic expectations, lack of empathy, immaturity, dependency and co-dependency, inability to assert own needs, poor communication and ineffective strategies for conflict resolutions are the reasons why relationships fail in an organization.
He therefore called on management of institutions to employ people who are emotionally intelligent.
Meanwhile, the National Leadership and UCC Local Leadership of the Ghana Association of University Administrators (GAUA) have presented a citation to Dr. Moses Abnory for his immense contribution towards the growth of the Association.
Part of the citation read “this token is to place on record our heartfelt gratitude to you for your unflinching, unabated and stalwart support to the cause of the Ghana Association of University Administrators (GAUA), both local and national”.
Presenting the citation by the national president Kwabena Antwi-Konadu on behalf of the association, it further said his amazing and impactful contributions to the professional development of the GAUA fraternity cannot go unnoticed.
SOURCE: RICHARD OSEI KORANKYE /ATLFMNEWS
