As a part of the Pre-Placement Training for students, the Placement Cell organized Soft Skills Training Programme for TY students from 3rd March to 23rd April 2021 via Zoom. The Resource Person was Ms. Caroline Stewart Silva. The students were grouped into 4 batches and each batch attended the training programme for 7 days. 84 students participated.
Some of the important topics covered under the training session were as follows:
Effective communication (how effective is your communication? damage done by poor communication, barriers to effective communication, types of communication, reasons for effective communication, etc.).
Good listeners (importance of active listening, how is listening different from hearing?).
Body language (what your body language says about you, posture and stances, kinds of touch, etc.).
Written communication (forms of written communication, objectives of written communication, elements of written communication, punctuation matters, etc.).
Leadership (leadership process model, leadership styles, leadership core values, steps to becoming a good leader, leadership principles, etc.).
Teamwork (how to make a team work for you).
Time management (misconception about time, symptoms of poor time management, tricks for better time management, etc.).
Email writing (Do and Don’ts while writing emails, etiquettes of email, components of email writing, effective email writing).
The Resource Person used various stories to connect with the students, and activities were conducted to make the sessions lively.
There was a Q&A session at the end of every session, where students put forth their queries and difficulties relating to the topics covered during the sessions.
