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Enhancing Soft Skills and Personality

Enhancing Soft Skills and Personality. Instructor: Prof. T. Ravichandran, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Kanpur. The course aims to cause an enhanced awareness about the significance of soft skills in professional and interpersonal 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. The focus of this course is on interpersonal and management skills. (from nptel.ac.in)

Lecture 06 - Managing Time: Importance of Time and Understanding Perceptions of Time


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Lecture 01 - Introduction: Highlights of Developing Soft Skills
Lecture 02 - Introduction: Highlights of Developing Soft Skills (cont.)
Lecture 03 - Mindset: Definition and Types
Lecture 04 - Mindset: Learning Mindsets
Lecture 05 - Mindset: Secrets of Developing Growth Mindsets
Lecture 06 - Managing Time: Importance of Time and Understanding Perceptions of Time
Lecture 07 - Managing Time: Using Time Efficiently
Lecture 08 - Handling Delay: Understanding Procrastination
Lecture 09 - Handling Delay: Overcoming Procrastination
Lecture 10 - Assertiveness: Don't Say Yes to Make Others Happy!
Lecture 11 - Assertiveness: Type of People
Lecture 12 - Assertiveness: How to Say No
Lecture 13 - Managing Negative Emotions: Controlling Anger
Lecture 14 - Channelizing Positive Emotions: Gaining Power from Positive Thinking
Lecture 15 - Channelizing Positive Emotions: Gaining Power from Positive Thinking (cont.)
Lecture 16 - People Skills: What Makes Others Dislike You?
Lecture 17 - People Skills: What Makes Others Like You?
Lecture 18 - People Skills: What Makes Others Like You? (cont.)
Lecture 19 - People Skills: Being Attractive
Lecture 20 - People Skills: Being Attractive (cont.)
Lecture 21 - English Skills: Common Errors 1
Lecture 22 - English Skills: Common Errors 2
Lecture 23 - English Skills: Common Errors 3
Lecture 24 - English Skills: Common Errors 4
Lecture 25 - English Skills: Common Errors 5
Lecture 26 - Significance of Humour in Communication
Lecture 27 - Humour in the Workplace
Lecture 28 - Function of Humour in the Workplace
Lecture 29 - Money and Personality
Lecture 30 - Managing Money
Lecture 31 - Health and Personality
Lecture 32 - Managing Health: Importance of Exercise
Lecture 33 - Managing Health: Diet and Sleep
Lecture 34 - Love and Personality
Lecture 35 - Managing Love
Lecture 36 - Ethics and Etiquette
Lecture 37 - Business Etiquette
Lecture 38 - Managing Mind and Memory
Lecture 39 - Improving Memory
Lecture 40 - Care for Environment