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 42 - Body Language: For Group Discussions |
The lecture emphasizes on the importance of Group Discussion as an effective and time-efficient tool of identifying and selecting a natural leader, and proposes that a right attitude, involving coordination, co-operation and courtesy leads one to succeed in a Group Discussion, and that in order to inculcate a winning attitude, one must pay due attention to nonverbal along with the verbal cues, involving body language and appearance. Thus, the lecture identifies various aspects of body language that are considered appropriate for emerging successfully in a group discussion.
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