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Soft Skills
Prof. Binod Mishra · IIT Roorkee
About
Soft Skills, a buzz word today has attracted the attention of students, professionals and entrepreneurs all over the world. Employability, being the major concern today, every individual aims at getting coveted jobs. Employability today is commensurate with proving multiple skills in varied situations in a fast changing world. Hence, everyone aspiring for jobs today has to prove one’s mettle in various situations where one requires to be armed with different skills, which, collectively come under Soft Skills. One may be armed with good competence of one’s subject but one cannot compete with his peer groups unless one has the potential of performance. Performance can be ensured with the demonstration of certain abilities that can help a professional communicate, corroborate, convince, evaluate and look into the continuing as well as the upcoming trends of the corporate world from time to time.The course aims at creating awareness among the stock holders of the corporate world in which the role of individuals as team players and also as responsible leaders materializes to a great extent. The course, with its interactive and need based modules, will address various challenges of communication as well as behavioural skills faced by individuals at workplace and organizations in bridging the gaps through effective skills of interviews, group discussions, meeting management, presentations and nuances of drafting various business documents for sustainability in today’s global world.
Intended audience: BE/B.Sc/B.A, ME, M.Sc./M.A, Ph.D,Open to everyone desirous of honing one’s employability skills
Prerequisites: Basic knowledge of reading and writing English.
Lectures
Week 1
- Introduction to Soft Skills
- Aspects of Soft Skills
- Effective Communication Skills
- Classification of Communication
- Personality Development
Week 2
- Positive Thinking
- Telephonic Communication Skills
- Telephonic Communication Skills Part 2
- Communicating Without Words
- Paralanguage
Week 3
- Proxemics
- Haptics: The Language of Touch
- Meta-communication
- Listening Skills
- Listening: Types and Importance
Week 4
- Negotiation Skills
- Negotiation Strategies
- Culture as Communication
- Communicating Across Cultures
- Organizational Communication
Week 5
- Communication Breakdown Part I
- Communication Breakdown Part II
- Advanced Writing Skills
- Principles of Business Writing
- Types of Business Writing Part I
Week 6
- Types of Business Writing Part II
- Business Letters
- Business Letters: Format and Style
- Types of Business Letters Part I
- Types of Business Letters Part II
Week 7
- Report Writing
- Types of Report
- Strategies for Report Writing Part I
- Strategies for Report Writing Part II
- Evaluation and Organization of Data
Week 8
- Structure of Reports Part I
- Structure of Reports Part II
- Report Style Part I
- Report Style Part II
- Group Communication Skills
Week 9
- Leadership Skills
- Group Discussion Part I
- Group Discussion Part II
- Meeting Management
- Adaptability and Work Ethics
Week 10
- Advanced Speaking Skills
- Oral Presentations, Speeches & Debates
- Combating Nervousness
- Patterns and Methods of Presentations
- Oral Presentation: Planning and Preparartion
Week 11
- Making Effective Presentation
- Speeches for Various Occassions
- Interviews
- Interview: Planning and Preparation Part I
- Planning and Preparation (Part II): Effective Resume
Week 12
Syllabus and materials
At NPTEL, as the course publishes them.
Credits and licence
- Institution
- IIT Roorkee
- Department
- Humanities and Social Sciences
- Teacher
- Prof. Binod Mishra
- 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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