Course10910511040 lectures
Soft Skill Development
Prof. Priyadarshi Patnaik, Prof. V. N. Giri and Prof. D. Suar · IIT Kharagpur
About
:
While hard skills teach us what to do, soft skills tell us how to apply our hard skills in a social environment. The focus of the course is to develop a wide variety of soft skills starting from communication, to working in different environments, developing emotional sensitivity, learning creative and critical decision making, developing awareness of how to work with and negotiate with people and to resolve stress and conflict in ourselves and others.
The uniqueness of the course lies in how a wide range of relevant issues are raised, relevant skills discussed and tips for integration provided in order to make us effective in workplace and social environments. The key areas addressed are conversation skills, group skills, persuasion skills, presentation skills, critical and creative thinking, emotional skills, positive thinking and vocational skills.
Intended audience: For anyone keen to improve her soft skills, Elective Course, Open course (UG and PG), No restrictions, ideally after class XII
Prerequisites: Basic knowledge in communication and a good understanding of English
Lectures
Week 1: Communication skills 1: the basics
- Lecture 1: Understanding the Communicative Environment – I
- Lecture 2: Understanding the Communicative Environment – II
- Lecture 3: What to listen for and why?
- Lecture 4: When to speak and how?
- Lecture 5: Starting and Sustaining a Conversation
Week 2: Communication skills 2 : presentation and interaction
- Lecture 6: What to Present and How Part – I
- Lecture 7: What to Present and How Part – II
- Lecture 8: Multimedia Presentation: Understanding the Basics
- Lecture 9: Communication Styles
- Lecture 10: Speaking in Groups
Week 3: Communication skills 3 : Visual, nonverbal and aural communication
- Lecture 11: The World of Visual Culture I
- Lecture 12: Visual Perception
- Lecture 13: The Aural : Its relevance and Impact
- Lecture 14: The Body and the Way It Communicates
- Lecture 15: The Face, Its Expressions and What It Says
Week 4: Interpersonal communication 1: individuals, groups and cultures
- Lecture 16: Building Relationships
- Lecture 17: Understanding Group Dynamics - I
- Lecture 18: Understanding Group Dynamics - II
- Lecture 19: Groups, Conflicts and their Resolution
- Lecture 20: Social Network, Media and Extending Our Identity
Week 5: Interpersonal communication 2: emotional and social skills
- Lecture 21: How Emotionally Mature Are You
- Lecture 22: Improving Your Emotional Intelligence
- Lecture 23: Empathy
- Lecture 24: Intrapersonal Communication
- Lecture 25: Change Tolerance
Week 6: Developing key traits 1: creativity, critical thinking and problem solving
- Lecture 26: Creativity : What Does It Mean
- Lecture 27: Creativity : A Detailed Exploration
- Lecture 28: Creativity : Activities Applied
- Lecture 29: Creativity at Workplace
- Lecture 30 : Creativity, Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
Week 7: Motivation, persuasion, negotiation and leadership
- Lecture 31: Motivating Oneself
- Lecture 32: The art of Persuasion - I
- Lecture 33: The art of Persuasion - II
- Lecture 34: From Persuasion to Negotiation
- Lecture 35: Leadership and Motivating Others
Week 8: Essential and vocational skills: survival strategies
Syllabus and materials
At NPTEL, as the course publishes them.
Credits and licence
- Institution
- IIT Kharagpur
- Department
- Humanities and Social Sciences
- Taught by
- Prof. Priyadarshi Patnaik, Prof. V. N. Giri, Prof. D. Suar
- 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
- Attribution
- NPTEL states: "Distributed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike / CC BY - NC - SA", beside a BY-NC-SA badge.
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