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 45 - Presentation Skills: The Role of Body Language |
Delving deeper into the art of formal public speaking, this lecture concentrates on the role of body language in public speaking, and suggests that one needs to exude the right attitude towards the audience by maintaining eye contact, having an upright posture, modulating the voice well, and using gestures effectively, such that one emerges as a natural leader.
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