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 47 - Reading Skills: Effective Reading |
This lecture focuses on the art of effective reading which is an indispensable activity towards the growth of mind, and suggests various techniques of effective and time-efficient reading, including skimming, scanning, and clustering, such that one can do adequate justice to the book that one takes up for reading, finally suggesting that every effort be made to finish a book once started.
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