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 39 - Nonverbal Communication: Basics and Universals |
This lecture provides detailed insight on body language, stating that while there are certain universally acknowledged postures and gestures (like being defensive, being insecure, etc.), these can be culturally determined as well; all the while maintaining that body language is an innate human feature, and that one cannot avoid the implications of body language.
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