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 44 - Presentation Skills: Becoming a Professional |
This lecture provides valuable inputs on the art of public speaking in a formal situation, and makes practical suggestions on how one can deliver a presentation/talk effectively by not only being prepared in terms of attitude and body language, but also in terms of the presentation/talk, which needs to be well-structured, coherent, and appealing, such that the audience is successfully engaged, and the message of the presentation/talk successfully delivered.
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