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Developing Soft Skills and Personality

Prof. T Ravichandran · IIT Kanpur

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About

The course aims to cause a basic awareness about the significance of soft skills in professional and inter-personal 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.

Intended audience: Students, Teachers, Professionals, Trainers, Leaders, EmployersINDUSTRY SUPPORT : All industry/companies/organisations will recognize and value this course and recommend this for their employees and trainee programs.

Lectures

Week 1

  1. Lecture 1: INTRODUCTION: A NEW APPROACH TO LEARNING YouTube
  2. Lecture 2: PLANNING AND GOAL-SETTING YouTube
  3. Lecture 3: HUMAN PERCEPTIONS: UNDERSTANDING PEOPLE YouTube
  4. Lecture 4: TYPES OF SOFT SKILLS: SELF-MANAGEMENT SKILLS YouTube
  5. Lecture 5: AIMING FOR EXCELLENCE: DEVELOPING POTENTIAL AND SELF-ACTUALISATION YouTube
  6. Lecture 6: NEED ACHIEVEMENT AND SPIRITUAL INTELLIGENCE YouTube

Week 2

  1. Lecture 7: CONFLICT RESOLUTION SKILLS: SEEKING WIN-WIN SOLUTION YouTube
  2. Lecture 8: INTER-PERSONAL CONFLICTS: TWO EXAMPLES YouTube
  3. Lecture 9: INTER-PERSONAL CONFLICTS: TWO SOLUTIONS YouTube
  4. Lecture 10: TYPES OF CONFLICTS: BECOMING A CONFLICT RESOLUTION EXPERT YouTube
  5. Lecture 11: TYPES OF STRESS: SELF-AWARENESS ABOUT STRESS YouTube
  6. Lecture 12: REGULATING STRESS: MAKING THE BEST OUT OF STRESS YouTube

Week 3

  1. LECTURE 13: HABITS: GUIDING PRINCIPLES YouTube
  2. LECTURE 14: HABITS: IDENTIFYING GOOD AND BAD HABITS YouTube
  3. LECTURE 15: HABITS: HABIT CYCLE YouTube
  4. LECTURE 16: BREAKING BAD HABITS YouTube
  5. LECTURE 17: USING THE ZEIGARNIK EFFECT FOR PRODUCTIVITY AND PERSONAL GROWTH YouTube
  6. LECTURE 18: FORMING HABITS OF SUCCESS YouTube

Week 4

  1. LECTURE 19: COMMUNICATION: SIGNIFICANCE OF LISTENING YouTube
  2. LECTURE 20:COMMUNICATION: ACTIVE LISTENING YouTube
  3. LECTURE 21:COMMUNICATION: BARRIERS TO ACTIVE LISTENING YouTube
  4. LECTURE 22:TELEPHONE COMMUNICATION: BASIC TELEPHONE SKILLS YouTube
  5. LECTURE 23:TELEPHONE COMMUNICATION: ADVANCED TELEPHONE SKILLS YouTube
  6. LECTURE 24: TELEPHONE COMMUNICATION: ESSENTIAL TELEPHONE SKILLS YouTube

Week 5

  1. LECTURE 25: TECHNOLOGY AND COMMUNICATION: TECHNOLOGICAL PERSONALITY? YouTube
  2. LECTURE 26: TECHNOLOGY AND COMMUNICATION: MOBILE PERSONALITY? YouTube
  3. LECTURE 27: TOPIC: TECHNOLOGY AND COMMUNICATION: E-MAIL PRINCIPLES YouTube
  4. LECTURE 28: TECHNOLOGY AND COMMUNICATION: HOW NOT TO SEND E-MAILS! YouTube
  5. LECTURE 29: TECHNOLOGY AND COMMUNICATION: NETIQUETTE YouTube
  6. LECTURE 30: TECHNOLOGY AND COMMUNICATION: E-MAIL ETIQUETTE YouTube

Week 6

  1. LECTURE 31: COMMUNICATION SKILLS: EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION YouTube
  2. LECTURE 32: BARRIERS TO COMMUNICATION: ARISING OUT OF SENDER/RECEIVER’S PERSONALITY YouTube
  3. LECTURE 33: BARRIERS TO COMMUNICATION: INTERPERSONAL TRANSACTIONS YouTube
  4. LECTURE 34: BARRIERS TO COMMUNICATION: MISCOMMUNICATION YouTube
  5. LECTURE 35: NON-VERBAL COMMUNICATION: PRE-THINKING ASSESSMENT-1 YouTube
  6. LECTURE 36: NON-VERBAL COMMUNICATION: PRE-THINKING ASSESSMENT-2 YouTube

Week 7

  1. LECTURE 37: NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION: INTRODUCTION AND IMPORTANCE YouTube
  2. LECTURE 38: NON-VERBAL COMMUNICATION: ISSUES AND TYPES YouTube
  3. LECTURE 39: NON-VERBAL COMMUNICATION: BASICS AND UNIVERSALS YouTube
  4. LECTURE 40: NON-VERBAL COMMUNICATION: INTERPRETING NON-VERBAL CUES YouTube
  5. LECTURE 41: BODY LANGUAGE: FOR INTERVIEWS YouTube
  6. LECTURE 42: BODY LANGUAGE: FOR GROUP DISCUSSIONS YouTube

Week 8

  1. LECTURE 43: PRESENTATION SKILLS: OVERCOMING FEAR YouTube
  2. LECTURE 44: PRESENTATION SKILLS: BECOMING A PROFESSIONAL YouTube
  3. LECTURE 45: PRESENTATION SKILLS: THE ROLE OF BODY LANGUAGE YouTube
  4. LECTURE 46: PRESENTATION SKILLS: USING VISUALS YouTube
  5. LECTURE 47: READING SKILLS: EFFECTIVE READING YouTube
  6. LECTURE 48: HUMAN RELATIONS: DEVELOPING TRUST AND INTEGRITY YouTube

Syllabus and materials

At NPTEL, as the course publishes them.

Credits and licence

Institution
IIT Kanpur
Department
Humanities and Social Sciences
Teacher
Prof. T Ravichandran
Level
Undergraduate
Language
English
Subjects
Society and politics
Source
NPTEL
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA, as NPTEL states it. Non-commercial use only. NPTEL's terms
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