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SKILL DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP ON “EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION SKILLS”: 19 FEBRUARY 2022 - DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY (PG)

The Department of Psychology, Postgraduate Centre, conducted the second skill development workshop for the students on “Effective Communication Skills” on 19 February 2022. The resource person for the workshop was Ms. Nida Syeda, who is a Ph.D. scholar with Christ (Deemed-to-be) University, Bangalore. Her area of research is on different modes of control that influence knowledge production on user generated online platforms. Her areas of interests are digital humanities and cultural studies. Objective of the event was to make the students understand the enormity of effective communication and developing the right skills to lead a successful life.

She began with an interaction with the students on how important they think is communication in their lives. She then moved on to speak about the importance of spatiality in communication. She explained with examples as to how people differ in their communication when they are in a personal and professional space. The different aspects of communication like kinesics, paralinguistics and chronemics and the importance of organising thoughts were discussed. She elaborated about the different skills that are involved in being an effective communicator. The speaker took all efforts to explain this through a wide variety of activities and this was an eventful and refreshing experience for the postgraduate students of the department.