By Staff Reporter
LEADERS at public and private institutions have been urged to learn how best to manage their emotional intelligence in order to maintain mutual relations with the other workers that they're supervising.
A good leader, it has been unveiled, should be a person with high skills interms of personal confidence, social competence as well as self awareness, among others.
The Chief Court Administrator, Prof Elisante Ole Gabriel, in his presentation at the 14th Annual General Conference of the Procurement and Supply Professionals held in Arusha Region insisted over the need for the leaders to also acquire necessary skills on how to control their emotional stresses.
The Don presented a key topic, titled " Emotional Intelligence and Working Balance"
"A smart leader must be equipped with vital awareness on how to deal with possible sources of stresses at working places and life, the development which will assist him/ her to professionally lead others," he unveiled.
He told the procurement professionals that a normal human being has two major behaviour parts, which are software and hardware parts.
"The software is unseen part and the hardware is the visible part, and these two are critical in human behaviour, " he unveiled.
He reminded them that, in leadership the goal is not only to supervise others, but how to manage personal emotions in order to maintain good relationships with others and make sober decisions for ensuring the intended visions are achieved.
"In order to be a sensible leader, you must know who you are, how you interact with others at working places, but most important, you must understand your position, " he said.
Prof Gabriel added that a leader must always be a great- minded person, and not a simple minded one.
" A great minded leader is someone who make positive things to happen, but a simple minded is one who only watch things happen," he expressed.
In his long presentation which was welcomed with vote of thanks from the participants, Prof Gabriel said most of leaders in various top positions and institutions in the country are failing to perform professionally due to lack of awareness on how to control their emotional intelligence when challenges crop up.
For instance, he stated that personal lifestyle has great possibility to influence performance of a leader, and event other workers at working places.
In this, he undescored a need for all, leaders and workers to master how best to balance work and personal life in order to contain possible stressors.
"Some of the possible stressors include living above your budget, selfish, too demanding, arrogant, family member's pressure, as well as spousal conflicts," he mentioned.
As human being are usually facing a number of challenges and stresses, he urged the leaders to take a major role of helping the workers in their respective departments and institutions to overcome such stresses.
For instance, he unveiled that, records depict that within a period of just four years, between 2016 and 2019, a total of 666 people in Tanzania committed suicide due to various stresses.
These, according to the country's Chief Court Administrator, Prof Gabriel, ended their life through different bad ways, such as self-hanging, self shooting, self- stubbing, as well as poisoning.
"These discouraging events is a result of lack of emotional intelligence among the public, and it communicating a clear message how the public need assistance," he told the officials.
Together with that, he cautioned the leaders not to use their positions to suppress the workers under their supervision, but rather to give them a helping hand to assist them psychologically as well as professionally.
"The best example is President Samia Suluhu Hassan, i can assure you that she is the best president in the world who have master how to manage emotional intelligence and stresses, " he added.
Around 2000 experts in the public procurement and supply chain management field convened for three consecutive days at the Arusha-based International Conference Center (AICC) for the 14th Annual General Conference of Procurement and Supply Professionals.
The vital gathering which is expected to climax today majored on the discussion of various topics for the metamorphosis of the vital sector.
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