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Enhancing Soft Skills and Personality

Enhancing Soft Skills and Personality. Instructor: Prof. T. Ravichandran, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Kanpur. The course aims to cause an enhanced 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. The focus of this course is on interpersonal and management skills. (from nptel.ac.in)

Lecture 03 - Mindset: Definition and Types

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Lecture 01 - Introduction: Highlights of Developing Soft Skills

Lecture 02 - Introduction: Highlights of Developing Soft Skills (cont.)

Lecture 03 - Mindset: Definition and Types

Lecture 04 - Mindset: Learning Mindsets

Lecture 05 - Mindset: Secrets of Developing Growth Mindsets

Lecture 06 - Managing Time: Importance of Time and Understanding Perceptions of Time

Lecture 07 - Managing Time: Using Time Efficiently

Lecture 08 - Handling Delay: Understanding Procrastination

Lecture 09 - Handling Delay: Overcoming Procrastination

Lecture 10 - Assertiveness: Don't Say Yes to Make Others Happy!

Lecture 11 - Assertiveness: Type of People

Lecture 12 - Assertiveness: How to Say No

Lecture 13 - Managing Negative Emotions: Controlling Anger

Lecture 14 - Channelizing Positive Emotions: Gaining Power from Positive Thinking

Lecture 15 - Channelizing Positive Emotions: Gaining Power from Positive Thinking (cont.)

Lecture 16 - People Skills: What Makes Others Dislike You?

Lecture 17 - People Skills: What Makes Others Like You?

Lecture 18 - People Skills: What Makes Others Like You? (cont.)

Lecture 19 - People Skills: Being Attractive

Lecture 20 - People Skills: Being Attractive (cont.)

Lecture 21 - English Skills: Common Errors 1

Lecture 22 - English Skills: Common Errors 2

Lecture 23 - English Skills: Common Errors 3

Lecture 24 - English Skills: Common Errors 4

Lecture 25 - English Skills: Common Errors 5

Lecture 26 - Significance of Humour in Communication

Lecture 27 - Humour in the Workplace

Lecture 28 - Function of Humour in the Workplace

Lecture 29 - Money and Personality

Lecture 30 - Managing Money

Lecture 31 - Health and Personality

Lecture 32 - Managing Health: Importance of Exercise

Lecture 33 - Managing Health: Diet and Sleep

Lecture 34 - Love and Personality

Lecture 35 - Managing Love

Lecture 36 - Ethics and Etiquette

Lecture 37 - Business Etiquette

Lecture 38 - Managing Mind and Memory

Lecture 39 - Improving Memory

Lecture 40 - Care for Environment