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Developing Soft Skills and Personality

IIT Kanpur, , Prof. Dr. T. Ravichandran

Updated On 02 Feb, 19

Overview

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.

Includes

Lecture 4: TYPES OF SOFT SKILLS: SELF-MANAGEMENT SKILLS

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Lecture Details

Course Details

COURSE LAYOUT

Week 1: Lecture 1: Introduction: A New Approach To Learning
        Lecture 2: Planning And Goal-Setting
        Lecture 3: Human Perceptions: Understanding People
        Lecture 4: Types Of Soft Skills: Self-Management Skills
        Lecture 5: Aiming For Excellence: Developing Potential And Self-Actualisation
        Lecture 6: Need Achievement And Spiritual Intelligence

Week 2: Lecture 7: Conflict Resolution Skills: Seeking Win-Win Solution
        Lecture 8: Inter-Personal Conflicts: Two Examples
      Lecture 9: Inter-Personal Conflicts: Two Solutions
        Lecture 10: Types Of Conflicts: Becoming A Conflict Resolution Expert 
        Lecture 11: Types Of Stress: Self-Awareness About Stress 
        Lecture 12: Regulating Stress: Making The Best Out Of Stress

Week 3: Lecture 13: Habits: Guiding Principles
        Lecture 14: Habits: Identifying Good And Bad Habits  
        Lecture 15: Habits: Habit Cycle
      Lecture 16: Breaking Bad Habits
        Lecture 17: Using The Zeigarnik Effect For Productivity And Personal Growth  
      Lecture 18: Forming Habits Of Success

Week 4: Lecture 19: Communication: Significance Of Listening
      Lecture 20:Communication: Active Listening
      Lecture 21:Communication: Barriers To Active Listening 
        Lecture 22:Telephone Communication: Basic Telephone Skills 
        Lecture 23:Telephone Communication: Advanced Telephone Skills 
        Lecture 24: Telephone Communication: Essential Telephone Skills

Week 5: Lecture 25: Technology And Communication: Technological Personality
      Lecture 26: Technology And Communication: Mobile Personality?
      Lecture 27: Topic: Technology And Communication: E-Mail Principles
      Lecture 28: Technology And Communication: How Not To Send E-Mails!
      Lecture 29: Technology And Communication: Netiquette
      Lecture 30: Technology And Communication: E-Mail Etiquette

Week 6: Lecture 31: Communication Skills: Effective Communication
      Lecture 32: Barriers To Communication: Arising Out Of Sender/Receivers Personality
      Lecture 33: Barriers To Communication: Interpersonal Transactions
        Lecture 34: Barriers To Communication: Miscommunication
      Lecture 35: Non-Verbal Communication: Pre-Thinking Assessment-1
      Lecture 36: Non-Verbal Communication: Pre-Thinking Assessment-2

Week 7: Lecture 37: Nonverbal Communication: Introduction And Importance
      Lecture 38: Non-Verbal Communication: Issues And Types
      Lecture 39: Non-Verbal Communication: Basics And Universals
      Lecture 40: Non-Verbal Communication: Interpreting Non-Verbal Cues
      Lecture 41: Body Language: For Interviews
      Lecture 42: Body Language: For Group Discussions

Week 8: Lecture 43: Presentation Skills: Overcoming Fear
      Lecture 44: Presentation Skills: Becoming A Professional
      Lecture 45: Presentation Skills: The Role Of Body Language
      Lecture 46: Presentation Skills: Using Visuals
      Lecture 47: Reading Skills: Effective Reading
        Lecture 48: Human Relations: Developing Trust And Integrity

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Sam

Excellent course helped me understand topic that i couldn't while attendinfg my college.

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Dembe

Great course. Thank you very much.

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