The KCG MUN club organized a communication skill workshop “Thinking on Your feet” on 24th February 2018. The resource person was DTM Gautam Sharma, Founder of Sanskaar Acafemy, and an award winning speaker and trainer.
The session opened with Dr Anita Manuel, Dean (SA) welcoming the gathering and explaining the objective of the workshop. It was to equip students with simple techniques that would help them overcome their fear of public speaking and also to help them think quickly and respond clearly during an interview.
The speaker began by recounting his personal experiences as to how he developed his own communication skills, which helped the students to relate to the speaker. First he pointed out that one needed content to be able to speak. Though this only counted for 7% of the impact without content, there could be no delivery. Body Language and voice modulation were the other two components that comprised the effectiveness of our communication.
He spoke about different communication styles like passive, aggressive, passive aggressive, manipulative and assertive. He also had relevant activities for the students to participate and understand the communication styles and for the student to understand how the knowledge of the content and familiarity will lead to better communication. He also enriched the students with some tips as how to face an interview – before the interview, during the interview and after the interview. He ended with a Q & A session, where he clearned many doubts raised by students.
One of the club members delivered the Vote of Thanks. Written feedback was collected, which was very positive. Participation certificates were issued to the students who attended.