And while the conservationists congregated at the Biltmore, a group of women gathered at the ITVET campus for a training session with BELTRAIDE. These women were engaged in informative sessions on emotional intelligence in the workspace. Jomarie Lanza was also there today.
Women who hold leadership positions across various entities gathered together this week for a two day training being hosted by BELTRAIDE to talk about how they can improve their emotional intelligence within the workplace when it comes to making decisions and dealing with employees as leaders. The training coordinator told us more.
Sarita Bejerano, Manager, Belize Training and Employment Center
"So we are facilitating a two day training regarding emotional intelligence for women in leadership. The reason for the training is to particularly highlight the women's role particularly in March due to the celebration of women's month. We have been doing this for the past two years now and this is our third year executing this emotional intelligence training so far it has been a great opportunity to bring together women throughout the country of Belize in leadership roles. What we are covering in this two day training is particularly how to understand your emotions how to convert emotional intelligence into your day to day activities in the work place."
"I think as women in leadership positions one of the main issues women face is being judged or stigmatized by having too much emotions and more than likely these emotions do play a critical role when it comes to your work place. In order for you to properly make decisions as a woman in a leadership role you need to have clear understanding of your emotions and how these can be used to make proper decisions, influence your team and of course create a vision for the organization or the group you are representing."
And for UB students like Nolie Avella she says that
this training will help her to pass it on to other women in leadership roles around her
Reporter
"How will you use this as a student?"
Nolie Avella, UB Business student
"As a student for sure I will involve my peers and let them know about the stuff I have learnt and also to mold me into being a good student at school and to just take all these things I have learned and to mold it not only at school but not only to help my peers but also the teachers and lecturers and other people around me."
"When I heard about it it was very exciting to me because I love these types of trainings because us as women we have a lot of abilities and in many ways. In school at work and at home in the community so it has helped me build in becoming a great young woman and hopefully I inspire other young women to be involved in trainings like this."
