By: Tunwase Dokunmu
It was a gathering of veterans, practitioners, top government functionaries and well wishers in Public Relations practice at the Annual End of the Year Cocktail and Get-together organised by Nigeria Institute of Public Relations, Ogun State Chapter, at Basic Trust International Hall, Abeokuta.
Welcoming guests at the event, the Chairman of the State Chapter, Mrs . Seun Boye, disclosed that the event was organised for members to come together, unwind and share knowledge.
She decried the present state of the Chapter without a befieting secretariat, calling on erudite and PR professionals to rise to the task that will give the State NIPR Chapter a landed property and suitable NIPR House.
Boye also challenged political aspirants at all levels to amplify on measures capable of salvaging the country from the current socio-economic and political problems in their electioneering campaigns, while leaders were called upon to initiate policies that would revamp the economy and ensure local government autonomy to make them function optimally.
Delivering a lecture on Effective Relationship Management, a past Chairman of the Chapel and Chief Executive Officer, Nigeria Council of Registered Insurance Brokers (NCRIB), Mr. Tope Adaramola hinted that human beings cannot live in isolation either in their communities or field of endeavours, hence the need for good relationship building.
He harped on the need for practitioners to imbibe Emotional Intelligence, which he explained as one's ability to discern between different feelings of others, label them appropriately so as to amicably interact with them, on the platform of good etiquette in all social interactions.
"For anyone to get on well and achieve a fulfilled life, he or she must continually develop and hewn those skills and attitudes that will make them “acceptable” to other persons, be they in the community they live, among co-workers, or any other persons they meet in the course of their daily endeavours.
"As professionals, we must continually realise that every business is people's business, hence the need to always master ourselves and master others, which is the fulcrum of what Daniel Goleman called Emotional Intelligence", he said.
In his goodwill message, Towulade of Akinale, Oba Olufemi Ogunleye (FNIPR), encouraged practitioners to seek for knowledge and not to rely on what they learnt at school, saying every practitioner should be part of decision making process in their organisations because Public Relations is not a messenger's job.
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