Course10910715420 lectures
Body Language: Key to Professional Success
Prof. Rashmi Gaur · IIT Roorkee
About
Body language plays a vital role in all formal contexts. The expanding trend of articulating views through vibrant participation in group discussions, power point presentations, team based tasks, brain storming and interviews, has made a good command over Body Language a mandatory skill. Whereas technical literacy is essential, it is a confident command over body language which gives an edge in today competitive arena. In all professional interactions, your body language is the only window to your attitudes and feelings; and therefore it is always as important as your answers. The aim of this course is to impart sensitivity and precision to students understanding of body language so that in professional settings they can regulate their body language can successfully learn to control their hesitation, anxiety and nervousness to come across as a more confident individual in all formal assessment situations.
Intended audience: Any Interested Learners
Lectures
Week 1
- Defining Body Language, Scope and Relevance
- Defining Proxemics, Four Zones
- Proxemics: Behavioral Connotations
- Oculesics I
- Oculesics II
Week 2
- Haptics - I
- Haptics - II
- Kinesics: Types & Contexts
- Facial Expressions
- Macro and Micro Facial Expressions
Week 3
- Mouth and Smiles
- Cultural Differences in Smiles; Head Nods
- Hand Movements
- Understanding Finger Movements
- Movements of Feet and Legs
Week 4
Syllabus and materials
At NPTEL, as the course publishes them.
Credits and licence
- Institution
- IIT Roorkee
- Department
- Humanities and Social Sciences
- Teacher
- Prof. Rashmi Gaur
- 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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