We covered various aspects of communication skills including, group discussions, public speaking, planning and making presentations and technical writing. Almost equal number of lectures were devoted to each aspect. In group discussions, students chose concurrent topics; the class was often divided into two or more groups. Students learnt to pose their viewpoints in a patient, terse yet comprehensive manner. We worked on the art of listening. In each group discussion session, a (different) student volunteered to discharge the role of a moderator. We had impromptu public speaking sessions wherein students were given a few minutes to prepare for a topic given to them, and had five minutes each to express their ideas. We focused on how to work around nervousness. Thereafter, longer and planned presentation sessions were covered followed by technical writing. In addition to verbal and written modes, to make one's presence felt (in a positive manner) in say GD, public speaking and presentations, we noted that body language played a key role. Through various interactive sessions, students and I worked on such aspects. Through "text editing" sessions (I wrote stories on the board, each sentence of which was contributed by a student; their imagination played a key role), we worked on how verbosity could be minimized (by rephrasing sentences, replacing words, etc. all done live) and words suitably chosen so that a number of iterations on the first draft could yield a document that is well composed.
- Estefania Hermoza (RWTH Aachen)
- Nishad, Shyam Sunder
- Khatik Vitthal Manohar
- Nikhil Singh
- Dr. BVS Nagendra Reddy (Assistant Professor, NIT Kurukshetra)
- Dr. Kumar, Prabhat (Assistant Professor, IIT Hyderabad)
- Dr. Mayank Goswami (Assistant Professor, IIT Roorkee)
- Dr. Orlando Felix (Assistant Professor, IIT Roorkee)
- Dr. Hashim Khan (Associate Professor, Jazan University, Jazan)
- Abhishek Sharma (Co-founder Agilo Technologies)
- Amul Agarwal (to be updated)
- Ajay Bajaj (to be updated)
- Anuj Agarwal (to be updated)
- Hrishikesh Raste (to be updated)
- Shyam Sundar Nishad (Ph. D. Candidate, IIT Kanpur)
- Sharad Singhania (to be updated)
- Ved Prakash Chowdhary (to be updated)
- Pranay Sharma (to be updated)
- Amit Srivastava (to be updated)
- Sujit Kumar Naik (to be updated)
- VijaySingh R Shinde (to be updated)
- Ashok Kumar Rai (to be updated)
- Pankaj Sharma (GE, Bangalore)
- Chandra Prakash Mishra (Tata Motors)
- Mukul Tuli (to be updated)
- Anjul Beohar (to be updated)
- Maitray Srivastava (to be updated)
- Prince Mallik (to be updated)
- Rajat Saxena (IES)
- Gaurav Seth (to be updated)
- Amitesh Mishra (CEO, Trident Solutions)
- Chandini Jain (to be updated)
- Shelley Goel (to be updated)
- Autumn Allen (Boeing)
- Vishal Jain (Lead R & D, Distinct Horizon Pvt. Ltd)
- Rohit Sonker ()
- Lokendra Chowdhary ()