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 40 - Nonverbal Communication: Interpreting Nonverbal Cues |
Having introduced body language, and established its importance in the previous lectures, this lecture focuses on the ways in which nonverbal communication can be effectively interpreted in order to arrive at its objective inference, all the while insisting that the first step in inferring nonverbal cues is to be aware of them.
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