Emotional Intelligence

Today the government programs that are administered by the University Relations arm of the University of Southern California got together for a group meeting. The guest speaker is Dr Joseph Dadourian, a clinical psychiatrist with the Keck University Hospital at USC. His talk was on emotional intelligence. So many people believe it is IQ that helps determines one's successful but this proves to be far from the truth. In fact IQ may predict success in school and that's about it. Really one's emotional intelligence drives one towards success or nit. This was meant for a successful communictations among staff members at each of the three federal untis in this department, but our unit is facing some new challenges in staffing as it meet the needs of the program. Trio programs at the U.S. Department of Education has been level funded for nearly a decade. And many programs have opted for drastic measures to continue servicing the high school students that needs the program for assistance that many of ud take for granted in reaching our goals towards a college education. For many programs similar to our Upward Bound programs, this means cutting back On the summer residential programs. Our leaders decided that this is not satisfactory for our students in the inner city area of Los Angeles, so opted instead to cut back on staff. Which makes this lecture on emotional intelligence timely. Well purposefully. The administeative staff was left out of the proposal so that means the directors of the programs will have to manage their own administrative activities. So there is some mixed feelings on our staff on this decision.