 This is why you guys did not hear me last time because there are two mics and I used only one. One was the recording mic. So hopefully you will be able to hear me but you are so polite last time and you signed the register I think that is good enough. So thing is to keep this thing meaningful and to keep it interesting and to reward you for having come so early in the morning either it is 830 or 930 or whatever it is. And at the end of this course there should be a distinct behavioral change hopefully it is for the better. So I will just talk to you for about 5 to 10 minutes now just going over the points which I have told you in a systematic way then I would like you to come here in front and then present yourselves. And then next week I am planning that Professor Apte will take up a session. For next week's session only as an experiment we will split up the class into two groups one group will come on Tuesday and the other group will come on Thursday we want to experiment how we can work with a smaller group. And what we would like to do is to ensure that at the moment you guys are doing a seminar everybody is doing a seminar. So whatever inputs we give you should be directly able to apply in your seminar and take it through into MTech and beyond that. So the guests we hope to have on the on the course one is Prakash Apte a very interesting guy from doubly he teaches the innovation methodology called TRIS. He does a lot of work with the companies like Mahindra and Mahindra the Tractor Division and stuff like that and innovation related. And he will come and address you about some very interesting things next week. How to map out a problem like for instance all of you guys are doing a seminar at the moment how to start working towards the seminar how to start asking the right questions what is the language in which to ask the right questions because if you do not ask the question in the right way you do not you are not asking the right questions which will lead you to some fruitful result at the end. So that is very important Prakash Vedya is going to teach you about proof reading proof reading how do you correct documents and the language of proof reading. So there we will have you all at once all will have to come on the Tuesday class and all will have to come on Thursday class he needs to have two hours with you. Sameer Sahasrabudde is going to teach you the language of visual communication how to use graphics how not to use graphics the science and the technology in the art of fonts of color how to use color not to use color all these kind of things and hopefully at a later stage if you wanted we will give you a module on how to produce a small video the language of video because increasingly you folks as you go out will need to present your thoughts not only in a static medium like a power point but you might want to commission a video. So how to commission or how to actually design a good video Anand Deshpande is a good friend he is managing director as you know of PSPL persistence systems he is an old friend of the department and when it comes to communication skills he gets a lot of guys from here. So he should tell you about the relevance and the importance and aspects of communication skills that he finds important and to become an industry leader like he is you need a large amount of communication skills because it is not only about being a techie about knowing knowing what you are the area that you are working in is taken for granted you have to go beyond that right. So these are the slots we have and these are your TAs Ankit is here Avi is here Piyush is also here Loit I do not see maybe he will be along in a moment he is got a class right he will come okay. So communication aspects how you communicate with yourself nobody thinks about that but that is also very important with others through letters through your research through proposals right through products we are writing a large proposal at the moment for for rematch rd right and the way we present our arguments is going to determine whether we get the money or not and that to how much money we get all these kind of things are very important. So you have to think about what the people who are sponsoring your research actually have in their mind you should always think about what the object of communication has in their mind right when you pitch your communication or you pitch your story right more and more as you as you go along you realize that a lot of life is about storytelling a lot of life is about storytelling I am standing here and telling you a story to convince you to our point of view in your seminar you are telling a story right a story of technology right this is the problem that we need to solve this is the work which has been done in the past is been done this way this way this way this way this way and out of all these stories I think the most convincing story is this story and I will explain why and then you develop that story into what will become essentially the seed of your masters project where you will take the story of a certain relevant problem and start solving it to come up with an innovative answer which nobody else has thought of and if nobody else has thought of that it turns into a paper in a good quality journal right. So there it is communication as a tool of thought how many of you have read George Orwell in this class George Orwell okay you should read 1984 animal farm and all these things he is he is a great believer in this that thought affects language and long and language also affects thought right if you are sloppy in your use of language your thoughts are also very sloppy your arguments are very sloppy right I will develop this this thinking why is it important to correct your spoken and written communication why is it important to correct your spoken and written communication you will believe that the facts that I am writing are important they should be correct I do not need to have right language I do not need to sort of you know have the right kind of emphasis and so on as long as the facts are correct that is good enough absolutely not what we notice our experiences when we allow errors to creep in to our story right when we allow errors to creep into our story all kinds of other errors will creep in including mistakes in reasoning including mistakes in reasoning that is why it is very important to get your language correct sloppy language is absolutely unexcusable it does not mean that you solve it by cut paste that is not the answer you have to make your mistakes be corrected and learn okay sloppiness of language indicates sloppiness of thought you will notice all the great scientists and engineers are very very precise in the use of language nuanced in the use of language this is something which you might not have been exposed to in the past which now you have to you have to acquire these skills okay and why is it painful I know after having read so many seminar reports and presentations and MTPs and stuff like that you know you might say that okay fine these are small errors and so on it doesn't really matter okay but when you see an error you have a reaction to it right first of all what it happens is that you have limited time you are trying to get get five reports read or five theses read and stuff like that and any error slows down the speed at which you can do your job with the result that you get irritated and when you get irritated you tend to kind of take it out on that person who's written the report right you'll get a bad grade you'll get a bad grade for bad presentation of your ideas right but if if the language at least flows smoothly no no errors and stuff like that no spelling mistakes the grammar is decent presentation is decent and so on fonts chosen are readable right and you're not wasting too much paper and you're not using very verbose statements if you make it easier for us right it makes it easier to understand what you have in mind and it shows that you thought through what you have in mind sloppy language shows that you've not really looked at what you've written and it makes us angry right and once you made us angry that's it right you lost your opportunity to communicate your story to us okay so well written means that we will breathe through and we'll maybe think it's good it might not be as good right but we get the impression that is good okay so keep these things in mind so one of the big problems of modern communication unfortunately speed right in the old days as a Prakash up by there will share with you writing a letter or publishing a document was a big heavy work you know you had these lead types you have to compose them on a big big board like this and individually put each letter there right and why is it upper case and lower case anybody know that why is it called upper case and why is it called lower case was upper and lower about it anybody know that the compositor when he was having this thing right most of the small letters used to be frequently used and they were kept in little pigeon holes in front here most of the capital letters because they were not as frequently used were kept here in front so that was upper case and that was lower case when they are composing the fonts and then they put this together tied with rubber band or string or whatever it is put some ink put a paper on it and get the impression that's how that's where all this language comes from it's very interesting if you look at it okay apart from this course I'd like you to go away and do some things spend time reading novels when I was doing my masters I remember right way back in Oxford I discovered writers like Jane Austen and Charles Dickens and stuff like every week I should devour at least one novel maybe it's had some effect somewhere read things like George Orwell John Steinbeck Gerald Darrell to kill a mockingbird Harper Lee Royal Darle if you like it Shakespeare Nira Choudhury the writer how many of you have heard of him autobiography of an unknown Indian right he used to be a neighbor used to spend a lot of time with him and he used to believe that Shakespeare teaches you the rhythm of the English language right Shakespeare teaches you the rhythm of the English language every language has a rhythm of its own which you need it's nice to respect right and also their flavors of English now English has been adopted by everybody so you have a Hindi rhythm and you have a Telugu rhythm and you have a you know Punjabi rhythm and stuff like that but you should also know what the English original rhythm is and reference to Shakespeare gives you that how many have encountered Shakespeare at school for instance okay barely about three four hands yeah okay so it's worth reading and it's worth appreciating maybe you not appreciated it because it's not been taught right but it's worth appreciating great cinema how many of you have seen twelve angry men is there on all the servers right okay twelve angry men worth seeing and that's a classic example of communication right how an entire jury believes that the man is a convict and he should be convicted and hang to death right and how one man slowly slowly slowly right brings everybody around to his way of thinking that's a classic in communication right to kill a mockingbird a Gregory Peck film and there are others right which we can share with you and communication right see the storytelling in its various ways you're telling a story in your seminar report you're telling a story in your m tech thesis so it's if the the the onus is on you guys for keeping the story interesting right if I'm in the if you are if I'm having the privilege of having everybody invest their time in what I'm going to say then what I'm saying better be interesting right so that's that's what you should keep in mind anytime you do anything or create a report a presentation or whatever it is yeah you're not there to reflect your own brilliance basically you're there to engage the audience so typically what happens is that you get lost in kind of technical buzzwords and stuff like that you know the point is not to help the other person understand the point is to the blind them with your science and your brilliance you know with the result that it creates a resistance and an irritation in the audience whoever it is and we want to talk as we go along so anyway these are the stages that we want to help you with okay your m tech seminar which is how you explore the problem back background and the setting how do you articulate the problem so that's what we'll discover next week how by the use of the correct language or in describing the problem properly you can actually make it easier to solve it which is what mathematicians do mathematician they take a description of an English language description of a problem represent it as symbols and the symbols subscribe to certain rules with the result of which they can solve that problem now if you if you express that problem in a very poorly thought out metaphor or manner it makes it much more difficult to solve that problem so the kind of way you articulate the problem the words that you use the verbs that you use are very important and the Prakash uptay we'll discuss that next week m tech project how do you conceptualize alternative solutions how do you experiment with the solutions right make mistakes and correct them it's an iterative process writing up most people believe that an m tech project is written up right at the end I would say no I would say that you should iterate on the theme of your project at least two or three times before you've reached the end that means if you have about a year to do it within three months you should have an initial answer start writing it up and you'll find is very interesting once you write up a thought you actually begin to understand the thought when you try and tell you a story in your report you actually understand the problem better and then you find all sorts of new ideas come out of it so don't for God's sake leave report writing till the end of the project it's not it's not a one shot process you should start writing the report as early as possible and keep in mind your m tech project contents needs to needs to be iterated at least two or three times for you to really get into the material anybody knows any software guy knows that after he's written the program what happens testing that's the mistake after you written the program you actually understand what the problem was in the first place then you rewrite the program right testing and all that brings out all the problems you're right okay testing brings out the problems but it's only after you written the program that you actually understood the problem in the first place so most people don't leave enough space for that they get busy with other work and other assignments and other deadlines and so on and the mtp gets on getting pushed pushed pushed pushed because this is not got a weekly kind of deadline unless your your advisor is demanding that he meets you every week right only then just before the deadline you go away and do some work to show him sir I've done this right that shouldn't be the way to do it ideally you should be working steadily I know it's very difficult this is all theory but I'm saying that to help you and to help the thing that you're trying to do you learn a lot if you work regularly and can I give yourself enough time and after this once you've gone out right use what you acquire to achieve your mission right now what is that I think university is a great place to identify what your mission in life is right some I well have a job with Google have a job with Cisco whatever that's not a mission right what happens typically you get the job in Cisco then you get bored you get a job with Google but they keep you engaged and kind of keep you busy and so on do you have a larger goal in life that you want to achieve as an IIT mtech you have the potential for making much much bigger waves outside then you believe as an IIT mtech you have the potential for being a leader in the sense that if you stepped into the into the shoes of a leader people will accept leadership much more easily from you because they'll believe that what you are saying is relevant right so just taking up a job and depriving some other poor sort of a job is not it ideally what I feel an IIT mtech should do unless you can become a very good researcher or a teacher or a kind of industry leader doing a startup running a business employing other mtechs from other places that makes sense for what an IIT mtech should aspire to so keep in mind we don't aspire to just have you guys go and take up techie jobs with Google and stuff like that make lots of money and that's the end of the story most of us here are at IIT rather than any other institution in the world because we feel that we can create some kind of impact here by having influence I spent a year in industry right as a chief technology officer of Mahindra and Mahindra I was reporting to Anand Mahindra this was 2007 right and I discovered something which is totally unexpected I discovered that industry at least certain industries in India believe they are victims victims of public policy victims of government policy victims of the marketplace victims of shareholders right constantly they are running to meet deadlines which are about three months the quarterly review they don't realize that with the size that they have they are a big giant they can actually move the market they can actually create new products it requires a bit more risk-taking ability right but that's the kind of thing I saw and then I found that here by being back at IIT right one can have a much bigger impact as faculty I can go and make some pollution rating for cars let's say right the government will listen to me and then all the industry will tow our line just by making this thing by drumming up and putting a pollution rating of a vehicle right rope in the government make them put in place a mechanism that all cars will have a pollution rating and then see how industry behaves so being here you can be a kind of Dada like this you can actually make differences you can make things happen so I feel that you should think about what your mission is so everything should be geared up towards that and not just taking a job so this is the rough schedule that you will be following in our semester scientific method which is next week right so what we propose to do only for next week is an experiment is split you up into two lots the first lot roll numbers 1 to 54 right will come on Tuesday right and the rest will come on Thursday as an experiment to start with we'll try and be fair and kind of move these things around then after that is listening and note-taking reading dictionary and grammar skills you know this and reading scientific articles formal writing technical writing of abstracts reports speaking skills I think this is post mid-sem so what my plan is that we will stick with the usual curriculum until mid-sem and then after mid-sem we start improvising and kind of doing other interesting things also okay to complement that speaking skills oral presentation nonverbal communication ethics and all that kind of things right so what I'm hoping today is that you tell us your wish list as to what you would like in the post mid-sem kind of sessions right so it gives us time now to plan for those things right so you can pull out any rabbit from your hat and we'll try and respect it okay don't just say I want to learn communication skills because I mean you'll be learning that anyway right so possible wish list you might ask for things like I want to know more about the psychology of communication right what underlies communication the principles right there's a very interesting books like thinking fast and thinking slow by a con man how many have read this incidentally nobody okay how many friends do you need is another book very interesting it says that gossiping has got a tremendous value you should gossip right and this book explains in an entire book as to why gossiping is good for you right so we'll explore that different ways of expression okay how other people express themselves how a storyteller will express himself how a filmmaker will express himself how a graphic designer expresses how an artist expresses right we can get friends from outside to come and talk to you about how they do their thing I'd like you to meet filmmakers and artists and if you're interested if you think all I want to know is write a paper and we do that also not an issue right but I feel again this should be engaging it should be interactive it should be you know discussions communication skills how do you manage communication and a group project how to criticize you know the project leader is got easy he's got a totally wrong how do you convince him or her to your way of thinking right in a way that doesn't hurt them because it hurts them they're not going to do it right or if it hurts them they'll become useless because they say I'm not doing it now you do it right how to criticize people this is very important right you as a you are bad it doesn't really help because that person gets I'm bad you are bad right that's how it becomes right and then you'll come up with all sorts of arguments right the other way to do it is look you're a great guy but if you did this better you'd be so much happier with you right and everybody would be able to understand what you're saying and so on that's another way to criticize right so criticizing most of our life goes in that and suffering from the consequences of doing it wrong I mean we just have to look at our parents to see how people do it wrong right they're so anxious that they don't think about communication they just tell you what's on their mind and then it just creates the opposite action on you right so you need to get smart about these things how to ask questions that other people don't like okay we'll come into these things and we want to end up with exercises that we can implement right small small exercises like one the student told me that if someone asked you to do something you ask anything else I can do for you right and then it has a very good consequence a very good friend who was a big hot shot in McKinsey's he was ahead of the IT practice in the US right told me one thing he learned in business school row at at McKinsey's also if you ask him how can I solve this problem he has no idea but he says that there are three ways to solve this problem right when he said that there are three ways to solve the problem and he knows only one by the time is finished explaining one way he's thought of two other ways of doing it and it works right it works you can try it sometime okay and then you sound very bright and intelligent and stuff like that okay so today what we'll do is that no we won't make groups of up to five we won't go into a I thought of that originally so all I want you to do is I still want it to be individual because we want to have you on record right so we can have a before and after kind of series afterwards okay what we'd like to you to do is individually just come up right name where you come from the faculty of working with in your seminar one communication disaster and one communication success and maybe some wish list that you want from this course and I'm sure many of you in your nervousness many stand in front of the camera won't remember at these things you think of just one point to say that's also okay right but keep it to within 20 seconds and we can cover the class now see that there's so many people don't tell them a boring story right don't bore us if possible make it interesting you have 20 seconds of limelight right to to tell us something interesting right either communication disaster success or what you want from this course which I've not mentioned already right so then we will take this in and then I'll figure out sort of your names and stuff like this and then we'll try and make this course more meaningful okay so who didn't we cover last time or should we just go randomly and say Lauren you come or Amandip is he here or is he bunked okay he's here okay you come or whatever so we'll take it who's next hello I'm Ankit Gupta I'm from Nagpur and I'm doing my seminar and a professor Sanyal one of the successful communication which I with one of the successful successful communication which I had was the BTEC seminar BTEC project report and the presentation which went quite well and communication disaster was when there was a junior who whom I was I taught the topic and after giving lecture one hour he said I didn't understand anything so that was one of the communication disaster which I think and for my wish list I would like to know how to tackle audience of different sizes and how to communicate and that's him thank you hello myself I'm from Pune I'm working under the guidance of Sudarshan sir the example of great communication was the first day at persistent where I joined as a fresher initially I didn't want to join the company because I didn't get the job what I wanted but Anand Ishpande is a great speaker he convinced me and that that's what motivated me I mean he convinced the whole audience that's what motivated me to continue the job and disaster was the KT's which I gave in the company and I had to give thrice to understand the audience or the team members so what I want to learn from this course is to make good presentations use of images or the forms which can improve presentation hello I'm Avantika I'm from Vrindavan I am doing my seminar under professor Uday Khedkar and my communication disaster was once in a debate I got completely blank and for my love like two minutes I was not saying anything so somehow I completed it and communication success was my job interview in the BTEC I was like really appreciated from this course I expect that I get rid of my communication fears so like a stage fear so I want to get more chances of speaking in front of the crowd hello I'm Shruti Sharma I'm from Vopal Madhya Pradesh I'm doing my seminar under professor Arke Joshi my communication disaster one of my communication disaster was my BTEC major project report and in which just because we wrote it at the last time the technical report we put forth wasn't very good and I have had many examples of good communication but not a great one and what I expect from this HS 699 course is that after communicating with people I should be able to analyze it and better myself each time hello myself Pushkar Khedkar I am from Pune and I'm doing my seminar under professor Sudarshan one of the good examples of communication that I had was we had to do weekly client calls in our company and after some time my manager got so comfortable that he let the entire handling of client calls to me and I cannot think of great communication disaster so far and what I expect from this course is to better report writing skill and presentation skills thank you hello I am Sandeep I am from Morena I have only communication disaster that I got the topic under professor NL Sarda so he told me the topic that your topic is city GMS something like that so I understood that he is asking for my city so I told him I am from Morena my business from this course is that I want to get rid of my fear and friend renting myself along these days thank you I am Deepak Agrawal I come from Sri Ganga and Rajasthan and one of the communication disaster I had once I was giving a speech on teachers day and I just I didn't communicate with audience I didn't even look to the audience and I just read what I had written previously when I completed my presentation then I saw that everyone was laughing at me and the only successful presentation I gave was the Aaka presentation in the last time hello everyone myself Meenakshi Verma I am from Bhopal Madhya Pradesh my communication success was project by us in earlier semesters and my communication disaster has been many so I can't mention it here I have took this course to influence to learn how to influence a large number of audience thank you once I went to a coaching class to teach students but I they didn't understand anything what I taught from last one hour that was one of the disaster hello I'm Santosh Patil I'm from Maharashtra I have came across only communication disasters never any any success apart from this once once in during my campus campus interview placement that day I have never I have never came across English and even now and that day those day also I was very frightened whenever it comes to English and during during my interview the HR HR asked me questions and I was like my legs were shaking and really even now those are I was unable to utter even single word in English so after that she asked me the questions in Hindi and I have been done thank you I'm Abhiroth I'm from Mumbai I've had a lot of communication disasters pretty much every time I step up to speak in front of an audience I forget everything I have to say I've not had any communication success as to say wish list for this course I would like to have some debates where you know a formal argument of sorts so that we are thinking quickly and speaking thank you I'm Amandeep I come from Chandigarh I'm working under Professor Krithi mostly my disasters are when I tend to be over smart and an example of great communication is what I recall from the first day of this course when professor Sethi made us comfortable and almost made us believe that this is what we are here for and I would wish that I behave naturally when I am on stage irrespective of the size of the audience thank you hello I'm Manjuna Tiaji I'm from Bangalore an example of my I haven't had many communication disasters one embarrassing situation I'd like to share with you I was I asked to compare this birthday party of a cousin of mine a male child a male baby basically and I ended up describing him as gorgeous and this is an example of an embarrassing situation and I can't think of any great communication that I've done so far and my wish list for from this course is driving away my stage fear and how to present how to give presentations better and impress a lot of people thank you hello everyone I'm Himanshu I'm from Mathura UP I'm doing my seminar under Professor Vishwas communication disasters that I had during my college days was I never look at the audience I just say what I want to say in my presentations and all and I do not have any success in that and my expectations from this course are I want to be a public speaker good public speaker hello everyone I'm Mukun Lahoti I'm from Indore I am doing my seminar under Professor Vishwas communication disaster was when once I had to give an English XMP I went entirely off-way and I did many embarrassing things I said many embarrassing things success was my BTEC campus placement interview I knew nothing about the technical things but due to communication somehow I got the job then regarding this the takeaways from this course I would like to learn something how to handle unexpected situation when the other person is angry or is not going to listen us or we know that he is lying how to take all those those situation thank you hello everyone my name is Abhishek Gupta I am from Sultanpur UP I'm working under professors as others as experience of communication disaster was to read few papers in course of compiler which I was not able to understand and which forced me to not take that subject at my empty seminar topic and wish list from this course would be that I would like to learn how to present good points in group discussions and debate kind of situations and improve my skills on public as well thank you very much hello my name is Mahendra Kaklej I am from Malega I am doing seminar under Professor Uday Kedkar my disaster was in 12th class we like to teach on occasion of teachers day I was barely able to explain the things to the students so I would like to from this course I would like to explain the things to the peoples and bring clarity to my communication as well as face the crowd of any size hello everyone I am Ashish Agrawal and I am from Odisha I am doing my seminar under Professor Varsha Abte and my biggest communication disaster was my placement interviews I couldn't understand a thing what they were seeing and it's all went wrong and my expectations from this course would be a better public communication thank you good morning everyone I myself Mayan Gupta I am from Rajasthan I am working with the professor Viswas as a seminar I have many disasters hardly some success so the only success was that I was been appreciated for my project presentation in my BTEC I would expect that I lose the fear of communicating last number of crowd and better represent my thoughts and myself thank you hello all my name is Sumit Kumar Sahu I am from Bhopal MP and I came I got an opportunity to come here in IIT Bombay and I wish I could get rid of the pit holes I've developed in my undergraduate course and about communication disasters I do remember the recently incident here in IIT Bombay only one of the faculty I have one of the faculty has told me that you are you are worth you are worthless you cannot do anything and we are we are not able to explain anything to him and about good communication I've taught many students and many of my friends and they said I'm very good in teaching them that's it thank you I actually don't know what I demand from this course but I just want I just want to enjoy with my friends hello everyone I am Sahuangotam and I am from Ghaziabad I am doing my seminar under the guidance of Pushpa Bhattacharya and one of the communication disaster was happened when I was appearing in a GD round of a company company's interview and out of the 10 there were eight girls and you much and you may know how much time will a guy will get for talk for talk and present himself in front of eight girls so this was the biggest communication disaster that I that I faced in my life till date and my wish list from this course to handle this kind of situations and to and to become a good presenter in front of a crowd thank you hello I'm Akanksha and I'm from Chhattisgarh and to tell you about the best what happened okay first the worst what happened okay so I and one of my benchmarks were very great friends and one day she pulled my leg and I pulled her leg and afterwards what happened we stopped communicating neither she said that she's angry neither I nor I said that I am angry and we didn't talk to each other for around one and a half months then I saw her online on Facebook and I felt like okay come on I should say something because okay this may be the last sentence that I am saying to her so I just wrote their best wishes for your future and then she replied me with a hi and then we started interacting okay hi why were you angry I said no I was not angry why were you angry yeah she said it even I was not angry and we both were wondering we didn't talk to each other for around one and a half months and neither of us were angry wondering why the other person is angry so this is zero communication also leads to disasters and still we are friends and we are good friends and I don't want any of you to do that and the best what happened due to my communication I got a appreciable rank in gate and I was called upon by one of my teachers to give a good to motivate students and I took two lectures and both of them were of one and a half hours each so I motivated many students many many students and I think more than 50 students got motivated due to me and that was one of the greatest achievements I ever had and yeah my wish list I'm very bad at negotiations so I want to know how to negotiate and I'm very excited I don't know how are you going to teach this negotiation hello I'm Lauren I'm working under Abhiram Rande sir and the worst communication I had like there are many but the recent one I'll tell you in the last semester only actually I had two options when I was deciding like with whom I should do my seminar I always wanted to do my seminar with Sharath sir but he was not replying me and then professor professor Abhiram Rande sir offered me seminar so I was not able to decide so I mailed him I mailed Sharath sir with all my emotions and told him that I have got bad grades and I cannot decide and I do not have confident over me and sir please if you have confident over me please mail me or reply me and what did he reply he said go ahead with the other professor so I think that I shouldn't have like mailed him all my sentiments or all those things a good communication I can't recall my wish list from this course is that I want to express myself more I am very bad in expressing myself that's all yeah thank you hi I'm Colol I'm from Kolkata West Bengal and my communication disaster was in last semester a one of my course seminar that was in NLP and that was so totally technical and at the half of the seminar I just saw that all the audience is almost left including the teacher also so so that Mars was also bad that like and good was that when I was in company in IBM my first on-site on-site talking with the client and and my all the colleagues are said that it may be some hard and something but it was gone well and my wish list for this course is that I will able to learn some cultural aspects of communication that may be in with different culture how we communicate and what are the points we need to remember something like that thank you hello I'm Ajay I'm doing my I'm from Mumbai and I'm doing my seminar and the professor NL Sada the worst moment while communicating was when one of the we were giving a presentation in BTEC and what we had written on the slides were completely unordered and our teachers it completely went mad at us and the best communication was when we were we had arranged a CSI fest in our college and we were able to get many sponsorships for it and what I would like to take from this course is that I would like to when I am speaking I would like to gender interest among the public with whom I am speaking hello myself I am from the way and I am working under the professor Krithi for my seminar about the seminar disaster about the communication disaster so I have in the last week only I was supposed to engage a lecture of half an hour in front of 75 students but I dismissed the class in five minutes only so and about the communication success all my tea meetings and specifically wish list is a I want to remove that fear from my mind speaking in front of so much audience hello my name is Nikhil Kumar it's Nikhil Kumar there is no space in between so usually while when someone marks my attendance they write it Nikhil space Kumar and I am working under the guidance of professor Pushpak and my worst communication disaster was when after 12 standard means I got good marks and I had to means they had given me some prize and I had to say something says say a few words on the stage and I was supposed to speak in Marathi so and being from a convent I was not comfortable with that so half of the talk was in English half of it is was in Marathi and it was really bad and one guy from the audience said to me that didn't they teach you how to speak so that was really bad and my best communication instance was when by leaving the job at VMware I had to hand over my work to two guys and they really appreciated my sessions and they understood everything clearly so it was really good and what I want from this course is when I speak to someone who doesn't know anything about my field how can I explain it in a better way so that he can understand it easily and like I have a younger cousin who always takes my phone and starts playing mobile games and so he asked me how did you develop this and what did you use so I'm not I'm blank I don't know how to explain it or whenever my grandfather asked me that what are you working on right now I'm blank and I can't explain him clearly I'm confused how to explain so like when we are given a somewhat different audience how can we better explain our technical concepts thank you okay we'll stop the sessions here but you know one thing that comes through all these things right people have said that they want to learn better how to speak to an audience how to pitch an idea to an audience right and how to communicate across cultures you can also treat this as a culture right this is one culture then you might be speaking to Japanese American and so on you know my answer to this is there's been some very interesting research on communication right there are two aspects of communication one is your syntactic right how you talk what you say you might speak with a Marathi accent you might speak with a you know Telugu accent whatever it is right at the end of the day none of that matters at the end of the day what really matters what matters you tell me huh you should be able to convey your ideas what else what else how well you have performed what else you know what the answer is to this right it is the sincerity of a person who's communicating most of the people who are saying who are communication problems here didn't have a problem here because they are being sincere and earnest they're trying to share an experience right and you'll find with in most communication across cultures I can speak to a Japanese guy I can speak to a European guy I can speak to an American as long as I'm sincere it doesn't matter what accent I use or whether I speak loud I speak less and this and that my sincerity is very important to be sincere in whatever you're doing if you are sincere people don't mind you making mistakes they don't mind you speaking with an accent they don't mind they are looking at the quality of the human being they're responding to that that is much more important so don't think by being a smart alec and by mastering the technical aspects of communication that your communication is great sincerity is the most important thing sincerity and earnestness that goes for your seminar it goes for your MTP it goes for yourselves as human beings right so don't pull up so the whole moral of the story is don't try and pull a fast one on people let your sincerity shine through and try and come up with things that you can feel sincere about if you feel sincerely about something about communicating even you'll do it well okay so I'd like to leave you with that thought which is where Badmai we'll give you dose on ethics and this and that and the other but again you know if you want to reach out to somebody there's nothing there's nobody you can stop you so what I it also means is that we need to give you opportunities in which to stand up in front of one in a friendly atmosphere here where you can make mistakes right and communicate right which means that we need to work with you in smaller groups and bring out more interaction and give you folks an opportunity to stand up in front of each other and we'll figure out how that's to be done so for the next week you'll have your Janta class in on Monday and then roll numbers 1 to 54 we'll meet here on Tuesday morning and 55 and the rest will meet on Thursday and we'll take it from there then I would request you to add it to the list right because this is a list that I tried to derive from from the ask website so there might be names missing so please add them to this right any other questions okay good thanks take care has everybody signed the attendance