Developing Soft Skills and Personality
Developing Soft Skills and Personality. Instructor: Prof. T. Ravichandran, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Kanpur. The course aims to cause a basic awareness about the significance of soft skills in professional and interpersonal communications and facilitate an all-round development of personality. Hard or technical skills help securing a basic position in one's life and career. But only soft skills can ensure a person retain it, climb further, reach a pinnacle, achieve excellence, and derive fulfilment and supreme joy. Soft skills comprise pleasant and appealing personality traits as self-confidence, positive attitude, emotional intelligence, social grace, flexibility, friendliness and effective communication skills. (from nptel.ac.in)
| Lecture 26 - Technology and Communication: Mobile Personality |
This lecture focuses on the use of mobile-phones as a medium of communication, and insists that excessive and indiscreet use of mobile phones can lead to a harmful addiction, and that mobile phones should be used as a means to communicate effectively and instantly, but even while doing so, care needs to be taken lest the mobile phones cause excessive compulsions that are hard to overcome.
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