Session on Effective Communication

20th December 2023

Dronacharya College of Engineering, Gurugram organized “Session on Effective Communication” on 20^th December, 2023. Captain Manjula Katoch was the Soft Skills Trainer during the session. Students of B.Tech 3^rd Year attended the session program.

The program was coordinated by Dr. Ashima Mehta (CSE Dept.) and co-coordinated by Prof. Neha Chauhan (ME Department). Dr. Ashima introduced the speaker and welcomed her on the dais to train the students on the said topic. Captain Manjula started the session by enlightening the students and said effective communication develop inter personal skills and enables individuals serving in teams be an effective goal oriented team player. These skills also develop professionals with idealistic, practical and moral values, develop communication and problem solving skills, re-engineer attitude and understand its influence on behavior. The immense knowledge on soft skills is needed to deal with the external world and to work in a collaborative manner with other colleagues. These skills include effective communication, leadership and teamwork skills, demonstrating problem solving abilities, initiative, and motivation skills, displaying honesty and strong work ethics.

During the session, the topic of Leadership was covered along with the exercise to make the students understand about types of leader and which type of leaders they are.

She said, leadership is the art of motivating a group of people to act toward achieving a common goal. It can be an individual or a group of individuals. It is interpersonal influence, exercised in a situation, directed through the communication process towards the attainment of a specified goal. Leaders may be imposed, formally appointed, chosen informally or emerge naturally. It may involve individual functioning, team functioning, task functioning and or a combination of any or all of them.

Resume writing was covered. Students were told to bring their resume. The resume of the students were checked and different techniques of writing the resume were explained like - What to write in the resume, order in which information must be presented in the resume, font size, font style, etc.

The interview skills were taught. Students were informed to wear formal attire. They were called on the stage and questions were asked. The method was demonstrated to students while appearing for the interview like how to sit, how to answer, what to answer, what types of words not to be used in the interview, never to argue in the interviewer etc.

It was a very helpful session for the students and helped the students to enhance their personality.