 Good morning and welcome to this exciting program. I am very happy to note that more than 25,000 students are participating in the two courses of this program. As you will soon see from the introductory video or some of you might have already seen that, we plan this program to bridge the gap between what we learn in our academic environment and what is required to be known when we join the corporate world as a professional. So, there are several things which are not covered in our academic courses but which are very important and critical. In IIT Bombay itself, we realized it more than a decade ago when we found that our own students were not good enough in simple communication skills which are required for the corporate world. IIT Bombay put together a course on communication skills which is now a mandatory course for all our graduate students. Expert faculty members who have participated in these courses as also been advising the industry on training their own young recruits have come together to design this program called College to Corporate. In the process, we have also been helped significantly by several industry experts. Notably from one large corporate house, you may soon see some of their experts joining us in the subsequent face-to-face interaction. Let me introduce myself. I am Deepak Phatak, a teacher at IIT Bombay for more than 45 years. I am the coordinator of all the MOOCs and blended MOOCs programs that IIT Bombay conducts through IIT Bombay X and through other related national mission projects. For this particular program, as I mentioned, I have had the privilege of help from several of my faculty colleagues to design this course and to bring in their own expertise to help bridge this important gap between the academic learning of the students, as I said, and what is required in the corporate world. I would just like to introduce my colleagues, some of whom are here today with us, who will be involved in the first two modules of this particular program called College to Corporate. I would like to first introduce Professor Veeran Sethi. Veeran, can you raise your hand please? So, Professor Veeran Sethi, along with Professor Leena Jha, Leena, say hello to them. They, and as I said, jointly with some industry experts and some other colleagues, will be largely handling the soft skills course. I'll leave it to them to introduce the content and the approach later in the morning. Let me now introduce another very, very important person in this entire program, Professor Partharthi. Partha, I will just mention this to you. These three people and some of their colleagues are almost worshipped by our students for the pains which they take and for the individual interaction which they have with a very large number of our students who regularly take similar courses which are offered in IIT. I am very fortunate indeed that I have the privilege of their association and the association from some other industry experts, as I said. I'll just take two more minutes to tell you that while IIT Bombay, our faculty colleagues and the industry experts will put in all possible efforts to make this program the most useful program for you to bridge the gap between the academic life and the corporate life, much depends on you both individually and collectively in so far as the benefits that would accrue to you. Please remember that we expect for each module you should be able to put in anywhere between six to eight hours of work per week to learn from the open source platform that we use, IIT Bombay X on which these courses are loaded. So that is the MOOCs part. Additionally, the faculty colleagues will give you activities, some of which would be group activities which will have to be undertaken in a coordinated fashion in your own institution. In fact, the need for local coordination in group activities is what has forced us to limit our offering only to those remote centers which have been our partners in rolling out large-scale teacher-straining program. These are the institutions and I compliment them for their forward-looking approach in coming forward to actually organize these courses for the direct benefit of students in their colleges. Each of the institutions from which students are participating has nominated a coordinator for each module. Please understand that all of you would be collectively and individually responsible to that coordinator in your college who will help you conduct individual and group activities, who will monitor and who will handle you within your own college. In short, your workshop coordinator is actually a direct representative of my faculty colleagues who are conducting this program. And as I said earlier, you will benefit only to the extent that you apply yourself and you engage yourself with the course both individually and collectively. Let us together explore this wonderful bridge course which is being designed, I believe, for the first time in the country. Please note that while we have our own expertise, this program as a whole is being offered for the first time. There could be some deficiencies either in the platform or the response time or getting familiar with the discussion forum and so on. Please keep in mind that we need to work together collectively in order to achieve our ambition of providing the bridge between the academic world and the corporate world. Thank you so much. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to this course. I want to thank Professor Fatak for the introduction which sets the context for the course. And as we go along, we will keep reinforcing some of the things that Professor Fatak had mentioned and take it from there. You do not have to worry about the overall course. We will keep sharing with you as whatever the next activities are there. So you do not have to, your attention should just be on the work that we are doing now and not to worry about the rest. So the schedule is available, everything else is available and you just need to come and play. So welcome all of you across the country. And we will introduce ourselves a little later. But I just wanted all of us to say hello to you so that then we can formally start. So my name is Virendra Seti. I am a chemical engineer by training. And I work in the Center for Environmental Science and Engineering at IIT Bombay. I will now request Dr. Jhatu to share. Hi, I am Dr. Leena Ajha. I am a business communication consultant and I have been working. I have been associated with IIT Bombay for now 10 years. Thank you. Hello and welcome to this program. I am Professor Parthasarathi. I am with the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at IIT Bombay. And I have also been teaching and participating in training programs on various aspects of communication skills. Also related skills related to gender and diversity, workplace communication and a range of other skills which are required for students to do well in their careers beyond the knowledge they acquire in their respective subjects. Okay. Thank you, Dr. Leena Ajha. Thank you, Professor Parthasarathi. I would like to then begin this formally and I will now use the slides. So I know there is so many of you out there and even a half a minute or a one minute over here sometimes that delay can keep you anxious. So I myself am not too used to this distance mode learning. I am more familiar with somebody sitting in front of me. I can see them in real time with no time lag, etc. So please bear with us and keep including some of these technical hitches that might be there, as also Professor Phatak had mentioned. So at this point in time actually I would like to see some of you so that I have a sense of who we are talking to. Otherwise it seems like we are talking to a video camera and that is a little strange. So I would like to kind of get to see some of you. All of us would like to get to see some of you and say hello to you and maybe also check to see if you say hello, whether we can hear you or not. Okay. So let us just go with that little exercise and then we will start. Okay. MEP course link Tamil Nadu. Okay. So if you can see us, please raise your hand and shake your hand, wave your hand like that to us so we know that you can see us. Okay. And you can hear us. Okay. Great. And so a big hello. Okay. A big hello to everybody. How many participants there? Only 500 participants are there and they are in different locations. Here around 50 students are there. Excellent. So I want to see 50. Yeah. I want to see 50 hands up. All right. So I can count 1, 2, 3, 4. Yes. There is 51 over there. Okay. Very good. Okay. Thank you very much. Okay. Next please. Udaipur, my favorite city. How are you? We are good. All right. Very good. So how many in the room? Excellent. Around 170. Excellent. All right. So please, you know, feel included and this course is for you really. So thank you for your participation. All right. Everybody can hear me okay. If you can hear me okay, do a thumbs up. Excellent. All right. Good. And I don't know some of you want to stand up at the back and say hello. All right. Hello everybody. Welcome. All right. Okay. Next please. One more. And then we will start. All right. Go a college of engineering. Is this where IIT is also set up? Is that correct? Yes. Yes. Always do thumbs up. Okay. Very good. Excellent. So could the coordinator please tell me your name? Hello. I'm the coordinator for RC1058, Mega and Ayak. All right, Mega. Thank you for doing all the work. You're welcome. Yeah. I appreciate it. So you are the one who will be holding the safety net for how many people in the room? We have around 100 registered but right now we have around 90 present here. All right. Excellent. So all these 100 people including the ones who will come a little later, please include them. And people who are already here, you make sure that they do not miss anything. Anybody who comes in late, sometimes circumstances are there and people are late. So if anybody is late, please make sure you include them and make sure you fill them in on whatever they may have missed. Okay. So I'm banking on your partnership to fulfill on the... Yeah, sure. Yeah. Okay. Thank you very much, Mega. Thank you. All right. Thank you. So are we all ready to begin then? Say yes. Okay. Very good. All right. So let's go to the slides. Okay. So I think we have already stated that this program is for students who are moving from an academic setting to a corporate setting or to a professional setting or to a postgraduate setting. So this is valid for just about the entire group of people who are about to start on a new journey. I think up to the college, things are happening pretty much on an automatic. So you know, you and I were born and then we went at some point in time to kindergarten nursery and then we went to some school and then the big decision had to be made sometime in class 10th as to whether to go for science or to go for social sciences, humanities and then at the end of class 12th, the decision of what we want to do next. But up to the college pretty much, it's like pretty clear we are going for education, education and more education and it's very well structured. So one of the things I share with some of the students when they join over here at IIT Bombay is while it may have seemed like the school is very structured, you have timetable, you have 8 o'clock to 8.45 one class, 8.45 to 9.30 another class, there is a certain structure and we come to take it for granted. Even up to class 12th, I think that structure is well in place and there is teachers and there is family who's you know there to support that entire structure and suddenly something happens when you enter college. Suddenly nobody is asking you to attend classes and somebody is not you know giving you threats of punishment. I think the only place sometimes it comes in the form of so I keep looking at the screen down there I really need to look up at the camera. So hello everybody. So in college nobody is really asking you to there is a timetable, there is a set of lectures but by and large we are not required to I mean if you do we do otherwise the only threat that comes is that you may not be able to write your board exams or the final exams because your attendance is not good enough. So somewhere that there is a certain amount of disorientation there is a certain amount of disillusionment that happens at least that is what I had experienced and from talking to many people they have also seen that somehow somewhere their performance so to say dips a little bit when they go to college. Nothing happened to your intelligence nothing happened to your commitment is just that the structure changed. Now if that being in a college already happened I just want you to start imagining now that you going to now go into the corporate world where you will be expected to behave from point of any other word you'd be expected to behave as an adult by the way you are entering into adulthood now so it's important for you to begin to actually inquire into what is an adult versus what is a student or what is a professional versus what is a student. So those are some of the questions that are going to begin coming up each one of you it will be in different flavor and it's an interesting inquiry it's an interesting adventure which you now will be stepping into. So our effort really is to be able to share some of the things that have happened with ourselves as human beings as well as the experience that we have from having taught thousands of people thousands of students. We at IIT Bombay are funded by the ministry of human resource development so we position ourselves and our teaching and our training and research in a single focus which is our job is to develop you as human beings as a resource. So you are a resource for the country you are a resource for the planet I know sometimes we do associate ourselves with a resource for ourselves or for our families but I'm just extending that platforms to be able to include your city, your state, your country and the entire planet. So you are a resource and we as faculty or we as coaches or we as your partners here on this side of the camera are actually going to be relating to you as you being a resource. So the future of the country the future of the planet rests with you and it's very inspiring for me and for my colleagues here to be interacting with you and be in some small way be able to impact that. So that's as far as the context for me is concerned and I'll keep reinforcing it we'll keep talking about it and there'll be an opportunity I'll give you when you can also give me some feedback on what you heard from what we said. So I'll move on to the next slide now. So there are many modules but the first two modules is what we will be introducing to you today. The first module is called soft skills in brief we refer to it as SS and we will do this in the morning sessions from 9.30 a.m. to 1.00 p.m. The exception being today because it's an introduction so we will only be dealing with the introduction part till 11 o'clock then we'll take a 15 minute break and then Professor Parthasarthi will come and share with you about the workplace communication. Likewise for the other three face to face sessions that we have we will in the mornings deal with soft skills from 9.30 a.m. to 1.00 p.m. and then in the afternoon we will deal with workplace communication I think I missed out the C the communication in that slide so it's workplace communication which is in brief referred to as WPC in between one and two we will have a lunch break and I just want to let you know that it's important to have lunch the sessions will be quite intense so you will need the energy some of you might think you might be able to fast I recommend that you not fast on the days in which we do the face to face I don't know what the arrangements would be at the college if there's a canteen especially on a Saturday so please do bring enough food with you water with you some fruit so anything just okay here right now so just make sure that you are taken care of in terms of your well-being okay so that's as far as the schedule is concerned so there are two modes in which we will conduct these modules the first is face to face which is like today and there'll be three other Saturdays on which we will do that for which I've given the schedule above mornings and afternoons of Saturdays and then there'll be a weekly quiz this is really in preparation for the face to face okay I know I mean I was always told in school and even more so in college that you know what will be taught in the next lecture so if you read up even if it is 10-15 minutes of reading that you do of the chapter that will be covered during the lecture then you're understanding your appreciation of the lecture enhances tremendously okay and you're also then maybe ready to ask some questions otherwise typically what happens is you go out for a lecture you have no idea what's going to be covered in the lecture and you just for the first time maybe grappling with the terms and grappling with the new vocabulary and you know it doesn't have the kind of effectiveness that it could have so going by going with the same line of preparation the face to face is the event where you can come and interact with us but really the preparation and the work that happens happens between the two Saturdays when you do these quizzes now each one of us has a very different kind of relationship with exams and quizzes I just want to assure you that we are not intending for this to be hard for you okay this is not intended to be hard it is intended for your engagement we want you to be engaged we don't want to load you up with enough work Professor Fartek had mentioned that 6 to 8 hours of work would be required every week and that's true you would be required to do that work however it is not like an exam that you have to be getting ready for this is before you start any game before you start anything which is of a nature of physical exercise you'd go for a warm up so even the Indian national cricket team you know before they go for a match they do some warm up and between two matches they practice okay they do net practice so in some sense the work we are going to do between two sessions will be more like net practice and warm up so that the face to face when you actually come for the match that you'll be ready to hit your sixers and fours okay so that's what I want to say about the two modes of course at any point in time if you have questions we will give you an opportunity to ask any questions so that they can be clarity and I know there's a lot of people out there who are attending and there'll be as many questions but you should just know that by and large between two and three questions most questions get answered so we will attempt to answer most of your questions and if there is still a question which is burning and we have not been able to answer you're welcome to communicate to us and we will also explain how to do that in fact I would appreciate if the center coordinators could brief the participants as to how to communicate so that everybody has access to us during this entire duration of the course alright the last thing that over there is so this is the last thing that I'm adding there the schedule is on IIT Bombay X the dates are fixed the contents may change a little bit we have proposed certain topics and certain content however as professor Fartuck mentioned we are really dealing with this course for the first time so depending on the feedback you get depending on the interactions we have with you we may modify some of the content but we have time for that so while you will be working on your quizzes we will continue to work on modifying the content so it better serves you again one more time today is the first first face to face session and there are three other Saturdays 9 30 a.m. to 5 30 p.m. sorry we will not go for 30 hours my apologies we will go only for the day 9 30 a.m. to 5 30 p.m. by the way we can consider going for all nighters also at some point in time but depends on whether you demand it or not okay alright so let's get to the first module we call it soft skills and I'll tell you very frankly I when we first said soft skills my immediate thought was I really don't know what soft means okay so of course these days you go to the internet and do some search and you know you begin to bring some clarity so we will do a little exercise here today to kind of flesh out what soft skills means to you and each one of us does each one of us we do have a different our own interpretation of soft skills so here's something that I'd like for you to do take a we'll take two minutes break now and I'd really like for you to take out your notebooks take out your pens and just take two minutes to be able to write in your notebook as to what is it that you mean by soft skills what is it that you mean by soft skills so we'll pause for two minutes please go ahead I'll let you know when one and a half minutes is over so then you can wind up in another half a minute so let's begin now okay maybe take another half a minute or so alright thank you for doing the work and now we'll let's go to the next step okay so let me just this says discuss with partner two minutes each partner who's your partner so the person sitting next to you is your partner so say hello to the person sitting next to you and if you don't have a partner I request the coordinator to please take a minute or so to rearrange such that everybody has a partner and if the total number of people in the class or in the room are even number then everybody has a partner if it's an odd number then maybe one team can be three people okay but otherwise everyone should have one partner and some of you may not know each other so take a minute say hello to each other no problem alright so where are we Maulana Azad Bhopal hi Bhopal Maulana Azad hello alright excellent alright so yes show me your partner point to your partner so point to your partner who's your partner excellent alright very good very good so who is the coordinator there what's your name madam I serve Dr. Madhvi Shastya okay Dr. Madhvi thank you so everybody has a partner how many people in the room madam yeah we are having like that only one team is with three people okay thank you so with your partner you have to share now okay so please let's go to the next center thank you madam thank you very much hello excellent alright anybody have a partner okay point to your partner like this point to your partner alright shake hands with your partner shake hands with your partner excellent alright very good so thank you who's the coordinator there sir yes I am professor Kalyam RC coordinator and Dr. Eddie Shirwate is workshop coordinator okay thank you both of you for all the work I appreciate it thank you very much thank you sir alright very good alright so let's begin let's go back to the slides now and what I'd like for you to do is share with your partner what is it that you mean by soft skills okay so please take two minutes each but really talk to your partner as to why you are participating in this course what is it that you would like to get out of this course what are the things that you want to get trained in so please talk to your partner buddy okay it's your best friend alright so you didn't know that till now but now you know this person is your best friend okay so listen to that person as your best friend and talk to each other about what is it that you mean by soft skill okay so we will take two minutes each so I will tell you when two minutes are over alright thank you so now the other partner should start talking otherwise sometimes one partner keeps talking so we wanna make sure that both partners get a chance so the second partner the second person should start talking and what you should be sharing with your partner is what do you mean by soft skills what does soft skills mean to you okay take another two minutes please alright so thank you for sharing the work and I know I can't hear you but you know would you please give a big hand to each other big hand to you for doing the work and let's say now what we will do is we will actually listen to you and when you are sharing then you are sharing with your on screen and you being listened to by a large number of people now sometimes that can get a little scary okay so don't worry just have to worry about the people in your class make sure that you communicate to them and everybody will get the communication alright so let's just go to a center to ask some of you what is it that you think is soft skills okay so let's do that now Balchan College of Engineering Sholapur okay excellent alright you know I visited you so I visited Sholapur recently in fact I had come to your college during your festival and got a chance to meet with some of the senior professors over there so hello everybody hello I just I just love the enthusiasm fabulous okay alright so may I speak with the coordinator who is the coordinator I am Professor Lobo the coordinator from Balchan Institute of Technology yes thank you very much for arranging for all the you know students to be there and I can you know it's so far down in the hall it's just such a pleasure to see how many people in the room this is only the main hall with 450 participants and there are 1037 participants alright I think we should ask Professor Fartak to kind of institute an award for the most number of participants okay we should consider doing that alright I know I know so Professor Fartak is saying you know this is like a Shahrukh Khan event over here okay alright who would like to share so would you please Professor Lobo would you please request somebody to share what is it that they are sharing with their partner about soft skills please share I am asking to my partner what is soft skill she shared to me that is soft skill including a communication skill the way person interact and body language usually while interacting with others excellent alright very good so how many of you in the room think that is soft skills for you also so if you agree with what they said if that is you also please raise your hands very good so a large number so a large number of you think that that is what would be required that those are the soft those are the components of soft skills so who else one more person please for us soft skill means it will include all the gestures and the body language and it's a part of a regular life like English is so even before technical skill comes soft skill comes before that how a person presents himself in the first impression so I think it is quite important to have soft skill excellent excellent alright thank you very much thank you okay thank you very much val chand college of technology way to go alright way to go okay very good okay let's go to the next college Raipur hello Raipur alright excellent how many people in the room that's how you do okay thank you very much thank you for all the arrangements that have been made over there thank you very much okay so who would like to share what do you think is soft skills soft skill is a way to represent ourselves in front of different people excellent and express ourselves very good thank you very good thank you okay yeah who else who else one more person which can be dealt with simple logics no need of technical stuff yeah very nice it's actually that simple okay I don't know you know sometimes soft I don't know what soft means but the way you said it it is as soft as it could be okay so thank you very much appreciate it okay thank you big hand honestly speaking Raipur what he said is actually soft skills it's within all of us it is within all of us and what we are doing here is awakening that sense so perhaps when we would go through the lessons you would realize that soft skill actually is something which you had in yourself always is just that we try now to bring it afford thank you one more college hello sir hello ma'am good morning I'm Anjana from Laila Aikam Jenny fabulous something other than technical about your personality development about a person and how you represent yourself okay fabulous so I'm sorry you said it is something which is other than technical correct okay now the whatever you know technically whatever you know when we say technically it is not just science it is not engineering we also want to include humanities and social sciences arts commerce economics fine arts we want to include everybody okay but I just want you to know that while it may seems it may seem you know that there is a method to the college training and soft skills is something like a natural talent or something of that there's nothing like natural talent okay you yeah you it's a matter of training so whatever you know technical the technical aspect which we keep referring to at some point in time you put yourself through the training and that's why you know what you know today okay I mean I can give example when you were a baby you were only crawling on the floor you didn't know how to walk it was not natural for you to start walking there was effort that got put in somebody put their hand forward and you held their hand and you stood up somebody found a chair in the room and you use that to stand up you know so there was practice that went into it there are things that have happened structurally nothing but nothing unconscious it's very conscious okay so we the intent of this module is to give access to quote and quote soft skills in through a method so we want to be able to have you practice certain things which will give access to the quote and quote soft skills and at some point in time you will not even call it soft skills because that will be you so there's no distinction between the skill and you you are that person so then you know you don't say I am now going to walk you walk you don't say I have walking skills do you you actually when you need to walk you walk and when you need to sit down you sit down so similarly when it's appropriate for you to communicate something you have the practice you have the wherewithal to be able to do that without having to think of now I must apply this particular formula now I must apply this particular technique no you don't do that you do it very naturally okay so that's our intent so thank you very much for sharing that and we will move on to the can we have one more person share from your college good morning sir I'm Sharon from Loy Lake College of Engineering and Technology actually I was so sorry so soft skills according to me what I thought was this just how you present anything in a very simple manner which is to a person not only technical subjects but anything that you need to present it to someone in a in a well naturally that's that's what I understood all right excellent excellent so that triggers another thought for me and what you're saying is that when you have to present you have to do thinking as to how you would do the presentation etc it's it reminds me when I learnt how to ride a bicycle okay I had to hold the handle I had to put the foot on the pedal and then I don't know how I was supposed to climb so it's a big question as to how to ride a bicycle okay but with practice and after falling several times after bruising many knees after you know elbows bleeding sometimes after getting scolding from my grandmother saying no more riding a bicycle from you because you keep getting hurt after all of that at some point in time I learnt to ride a bicycle now for many many years now you know I haven't maybe about 15 years now I haven't ridden a bicycle but I know for sure that if I were to get on to a bicycle I'll be able to ride it no questions asked so we'd like for you to be someone who is committed to learning how to ride the quote unquote bicycle of communication and bicycle of soft skills so please tell me what I just said to tell it in a different way as to have presented what you had to about how to ride a bicycle or is it like to present myself or is it that what you're asking sir no don't worry about just say what you heard I said many many many things you know I'll keep doing this suddenly I will start talking some things and then I don't know whether you know what I said was received or not received so I have to make sure that I'm communicating right so I just wanted to ask you what is it that you heard in what I said you had basically said like you were taught to how to ride a bicycle but when you had not fallen down your grandmother had said that you shouldn't ride a bicycle in this particular way but in a particular in other perspective way or in a different way that's what I had understood sir excellent alright so my mother scolded me that is well established right alright so I and you know I'll tell you my mother my grandmother scolding is I'll tell you the way it shows up there are people around you who will my mother loved me okay she cared about me so she didn't want me to get hurt okay that that so I my all my love for her all my respect for her but when it comes down to people around you are they people who are encouraging you or there are people who saying hey you can't do it okay so you have to be careful you have to make sure there are people around you who are supporting you so who's your partner here alright behind me okay so no so you're going to be sharing with that partner who did you share the last exercise with okay very good so both of you each of you both partners have to commit to each other's growth and development you have to be your partner you have to support each other also here's your partner okay welcome partner hello sir alright very good so you want to I'm using both of you as an illustration I'm using you as an example both of you as partners are going to commit to each other's growth and development yes okay very good so when what are your names I'm Bula I'm Sharon so when Sharon is riding a bicycle who's who's going to hold it myself very good very good and when you are riding the bicycle who will hold it I have to support her excellent excellent alright now you should know you don't have to you don't have to it's not a requirement but if she has learned it properly I can I may not hold it I can encourage her by saying that yes she's doing well but if she isn't progressing well I need to support her okay very very good I like I like the commitment that you bring to this okay thank you very much alright big hand for both of you thank you thank you next center hi Punjab how are you okay alright very good very good so please tell me what is it that you and your partner shared about soft skills what does soft skills mean to you one person please share so we shared that the body language and the speaking skills and the personality the whole constitutes to us soft skills okay excellent excellent everybody how many people in the room agree with that alright excellent does anybody have anything else to add to that anything new which is not included in what he said sir to have please and and appearing attitude towards our environment having positive attitude with our people which we have to work that is the self means self secure soft which we have to deal with when we have to deal with our people our environment we should be softly we should have means much more experience to deal with all the people my salute to you my salute to you thank you yeah thank you very much very well said very very well said okay who is the coordinator there please hello sir this is professor cummer the coordinating whole of the activity and I do have my partner Dr. Rakesh he is out to just resolve one of the technical issues rather everything is going smoothly about 96 student professor for this particular program but at present we have over 120 students sitting over here that's a good kind of a breakdown it's a kind of breakdown we want to have so professor cummer thank you very much for your help and for for organizing so that we can serve this young group of people thank you very much thank you sir yeah thank you alright so we will move on to the next set of slides alright here's the next slide and this is where I'd like for you to kind of let your imagination loose okay see you and I know ourselves a particular way and we think we need to get trained and sometimes we know why we want to get trained sometimes it's so that we can get a better job a better salary but leave leave job and leave salary aside for a moment and I just want to have you inquire maybe for 1 or 2 minutes if there was some magic okay there was some magic and soft skills became available to you right now okay soft skills everything that you know about soft skills it became available to you right now what would your life look like okay or how would your life be better okay what would be the new dimension of your life that opens up so take maybe 1 or 2 minutes to write this is very important okay it's very important for the entire course because you know a few weeks from now I might ask you to come back to this and see whether this is getting fulfilled or not okay so please take a minute or two and write down in your notebooks how would life look like if magically the soft skills were available to you so I'll give you 1 minute now please take your time I'll let you know when it's about time please go ahead take a minute SIS college Navi Mumbai please raise your hand if you can hear me hello sir very good morning excellent good morning what's your name sir this is doctor Vijay from SIS college Nehru Navi Mumbai alright doctor Vijay thank you for being there could you please ask one of the participants to share what is it that we are asking them to do now sir you asked us if we had by magic got the soft skills available to us how would it change our life yes so I believe that don't share yet I just want to know whether you got the exercise you got the exercise I shared it with my father yeah we were talking about the same thing for a while okay so you're a little ahead of the course right now no problem alright no problem so thank you so just say the exercise again so that the other 24,999 people can hear it sir you asked us to think about a situation where we are soft skills the soft skills are magically available to us and if that is so then how would it change our life and how would it make it better excellent excellent very well said okay very well said you should become a part of our team next time okay you communicate very well so become a part of our team alright big hand alright very good alright good so please take a minute to do that exercise if soft skills magically became available to you how would life look like go ahead take a minute and do some notebook work thank you okay STC college of engineering hello everybody alright very nice so one of who is the coordinator hello sir this is Nagesh Matharya Nagesh congratulations thank you sir thank you very much yeah it's a fabulous group you got I'm good I'm good thank you okay so please have somebody share what is it how would life look like if magically soft skills were available hello sir hello when we have a soft feel then our life is better than today because interaction and also our behavior with another person are better than today very good so Kiran tell me one person in your life whose your relationship will change that with that person alright smiling alright so tell me one person in your life with who your relationship will change if you had soft skills behavior with everyone is much better without any soft skills very well said very well said so you should now know that when we say soft skills it is not just from college to corporate okay it includes your family includes your parents yeah fabulous so have you ever said have you ever acknowledged your father for having great soft skills yes sir okay very good so you'll do that today also please from my side will you say thank you to him from my side yes yes sir okay what's his name yes sir definitely my father is Uprena and he is a farmer excellent so will you please tell him that he has a fabulous daughter very good very good thank you very good okay one more person one more center let's go to another center this is Vidyapratishthan Pune Pune hello Pune how are you excellent alright very good one of you please share what would become available to you if you had soft skills available magically as soft skills are some kind of interpersonal skills other than technical skills such as social intelligence and emotional intelligence attitude threads it's actually important other than technical skills to be successful in today's world very good so tell me for you personally don't I don't want the overall general I want you want to know if soft skills were available to you magically just now how would your life look like for now it would be a better student standing somewhere out of the crowd okay very good okay BDT college of engineering hello excellent excellent alright so one of you please share with me what would be available to you if you had soft skills available right now if I had acquired soft skills by magic then I would have A plus certificate if character certificate would be showed to me sir well said well said alright thank you next person please one more person I would like to say that and also there will be certain growth in our career and our attitude towards life would change sir so tell me about you where in your life your attitude will change presently I am studying in tier 2 or tier 3 college sir so getting placements at the end of the final year is a bit difficult for me but if I would have soft skills overnight sir I can attend any campus interview maybe off campus whatever it be sir I can confidently attend okay so it will impact your confidence yes sir fabulous well done I think it would be a great impact on our confidence excellent well done okay well done well done well said okay and I think that's a concern that a lot of you know people in your college stage at your age that's a concern that a lot of you would have so I appreciate it okay and we will do everything in order for us to be able to serve that but the work has to be done where you are so you need to do the work we will only be able to guide you maybe direct you but the hard work needs to be done where you are is that okay if yes put a thumbs up excellent alright well done alright now I know I am going to be I got another three minutes left and I have ten hours of work to do so I will just show you how that works magically okay so I am going to request professor Partha Saarthi for five minutes of his time so that I can complete the work okay so we will take a break at 11.05 which is in about eight minutes is that okay okay good alright so the next slide okay so I am just going to now go over these slides so please be with me I am going to go at a very fast speed so please hang in there with me as I am saying these just put everything else aside just listen carefully okay you got to be at the edge of your seats listening carefully the course is about you for you dedicated to you to serve you you are here because you have a commitment to your growth and development we are here to honor your commitment this is us setting up our relationship with you so we are here to honor your commitment you will be creating a future of life and there is no grammatical error over there I actually mean of life you will be creating a future of life with the newly invented you that is our intention who you are is already fabulous our interest is that a new you can be invented so that where you could walk now you can ride a bicycle also there will be a new invention of you it is inside of honor we are not here to deal with you like little children in a class we are not here to do policing work we are not here to be a strict teacher we are doing this inside of honoring your commitment for growth and development so I hope this remains with you but we will keep reminding this is about honor honoring you honoring your commitment honoring you who you are already and the newly you that will get invented so we request you to keep bringing honor to the work we do together so please follow instructions and do the work and the relationship that we have with you so we relate with you as great as somebody who is going to do the work inside of honor and therefore I would like for you to kind of commit to that as well so we have already started the journey so I am going to move on further we have also in some sense introduced ourselves I will move further so I just want you to know that the intent here is not to give you trips and tricks ok tips and tricks is not something that we are interested in you can always find those and use those no problem what we are really interested in is looking at new worlds that will become accessible to you so we have made we have each one of us has been made into who we are by circumstances ok that includes family friends school college ok so our environment shaped us in some way we also made some decisions about life at some point in time and who I know myself to be is a sum total of all the decisions that have been made in the past ok given that our world is limited now we are only know ourselves a particular way and there is not much opening happening which will allow for us to access new worlds we have only been able to master and I say only because it is very very small amount we have been able to master only a small fraction a very small fraction of the spectrum that is available to human beings ok there is a large spectrum available we have only been able to utilize in our young lives you know I am assuming you will be somewhere in your late teens or early twenties a very small fraction you know has been really picked up from the entire spectrum so just to give an example visible light everybody know visible light that is only a very small part of the entire electromagnetic spectrum ok visible light is only a very small part we have not been able to you know access everything because we were never there was never a demand for it there was never a training for it we at some point in time learned to walk which was a limited spectrum but then when we learned how to ride a bicycle when we learned how to do the swimming we actually expanded our spectrum of mobility ok so that is what we mean when we say access to yourself as a human being what is available and what could be made available what you have available right now is a very tiny fraction of who you are and who you could be so I think we have already said this we do not have eyes to see ultraviolet or radio waves but they are useful ok they may be made available may be accessible to you so from that perspective what is it that would give you access to the new you we want to invent a new you so what would give access to you the new you there are many many parts we will explore only a few of them but then it is your journey to take it further ok so that is the commitment that we have for you to access new worlds for now of course we will give you access to reading we want you to get access to reading ok and that was what the first assignment is the quiz that is already on IIT Bombay X interface please go over it there are some questions that we have asked over there so in the questions we have asked what have you read so far what are some of your favorite books and then to be able to write down what your favorite books are and say why we in the interest of time we will not do this now but maybe when you get a chance next time we could do this and why do you like them alright and what plan what books you plan to read and why and I think the number of books that people have read we will add them all up and become have them become available to you people will even tell you from what you say as to why they like that book and if you like to pick up and read you know you welcome to then have a reading list so we are going to talk about reading as a practice ok so Sachin Tendulkar everybody know Sachin Tendulkar yes or any great sports person ok they practice practice practice practice ok that's what they do practice net practice practice before the match go for the match come back practice again so practice is so much a part of life whether it's Sachin Tendulkar whether it's a yogi whether it's a teacher whether it's a professor whether it is a student ok you are a student and you have certain practices you attend classes you do homework you give exams so there's a certain practice that you already participating in any great human being would have practices ok you look at any successful person if you read any biographies they will actually you should be able to pick up what are the practices that had them become great ok so that's something that you should look at so I'm just going to assert that like breathing is to living reading is to a great life you really want a great life you read read read and read ok and you really got to have it become a practice all right and you know like good eating is important you may in order for you to include reading you may need to cut down on some junk food ok and I'm not going to say what the junk food is food for thought so some things that you keep feeding yourself in you know you may have to take away time from that and put work you know put your time towards reading ok so have quality reading happen those so the promises I'm requesting from you now ready here are the promises I'm requesting start reading go to the web search for training on reading you know you and I have been trained to read a particular way but there's a lot of skills in reading and the more you practice skill those skills the easier reading would become the faster you'd be able to read the volume that you can read is much more and the more you can read more volume the larger you become as a human being ok so we really want you to be so that you fill the entire universe that's the kind of person that I'm committed that you actually begun alright alright so this week please put fifteen minutes aside every day for reading next week thirty minutes third week forty five minutes just let's take it easy ok one day you take one round second day you take two rounds third day you take two rounds in one week you go to four round don't do it overnight I know magic is overnight but some of these practices when you learn how to walk you fell down many many many many many many times before you started to learn to walk so fifteen minutes one day you will do it next day you won't do it third day go back to it and do it don't pass a sentence on yourself to say I will never be able to read I anana anana so don't do all of that just you're a human being if you're learning how to ride a bicycle gravity will do its work it'll make you fall you have to continue to make friends with gravity such that all the practices that have been in place are gradually replaced with good practices and one of the practices that we're proposing is reading okay got to do reading reading and reading so you got to be a mad person about reading okay alright in a month you'll be reading for an hour a day in a month's time not today not tomorrow but in a month from now alright and you need to so body needs food you need reading alright you body needs food okay but you you understand the why oh you is the capital why oh you it's you you as a human being you you need reading you got to do reading alright so just I can emphasize this enough now alright so you want to make a promise to your partner this is where your partner becomes very very important alright you make a promise to your partner and the partner makes a promise to you that you will fulfill on this promise and if you don't call up your partner say sorry I did not keep your promise but I'm repromising so you want to start practice this thing that great human beings do if you make a promise clean it up make sure you make the new promise okay so please do that with your partners right now I'll stop for a moment make a promise to your partner right now I'll leave the slide on okay the other thing I'd like for you to do please share with your partners your email and your cell phone so that you can keep promises to each other about reading alright Surat how are you excellent alright can you hear me say yes excellent so tell me what is it that I'm asking you to do as promises so one of you share with me what is the promise you're making to your partner yeah good morning sir my name is Inderjit Kaur and in between we lost connection so I just heard that you were talking about reading every week 15 minutes investing 15 minutes for reading yes but not every week every day of the week okay yeah every day of the week yeah okay very good yeah and later on we lost connection sir no problem so first week you do 15 minutes per day next week you move it to 30 minutes next week you move it to 45 minutes by the end of the month you should be putting one hour every day for reading yes sir we will surely do it okay good so now you can't do it alone you'll have to because human beings have a lot of conspiracy going on in their head mind will play tricks on you so it's important to make a promise to a partner and then make sure that you and your partner keep promises to each other so who's your partner so my partner is Ronak okay so say to Ronak good morning sir hi Ronak give the microphone back yes sir so make a promise to Ronak what's the promise you're making to him sir we will both help each other on this journey of soft skills and you'll start doing that by reading very good so you please exchange your phone numbers and your email and make sure that each one has done the reading for 15 minutes every day for this week and then 30 minutes for next week so you're going to become really partners with each other for fulfillment of this course yes sir we will alright Ronak let me talk to him Ronak yes sir good morning now listen you know what's your name sorry what's your partner's name Inderjit Kaur so Inderjit is a tough cookie okay yes sir alright she'll really take you to task yes sir thank you now yes say thank you very good so you want to be equally tough with her okay yes sir yeah I don't want you to be nice friends to each other I want you to be friends like you are committed to each other's growth and development yes sir so everybody in the room if you agree with that with your partner please raise your hands okay thank you very much for your commitment okay thank you thank you alright thank you one more okay Sardar Plattail Institute andheri how are you sir the promise which I have made to my partner is that I will start reading a non-fiction genre up till now I have in my childhood I have read various books which are based on fiction but now I have promised to my partner that I will move on to the non-fiction world and pick up a book and start reading from that for 15 minutes every day yes for the first week 15 minutes then 30 minutes okay yes who's your partner sir my partner is Jay Rana okay so Jay Raman this is the promise she will only be able to honor her promise if you are committedly listening yes you have to be committedly listening if she fails I will catch you yes if she does not keep her promises I will catch you definitely sir alright okay very good alright so give a big hand to each other thank you give a big hand yeah thank you alright very good alright so with that Dr. Lina Jha and I would like to say bye bye and please stay interacting with us through the quiz and we will keep putting up assignments I look forward to working with you I am very very inspired by your commitment thank you very very much whether it is you know 10 people or whether it is a thousand people I can hear the commitment in every center I really want to appreciate who you are and the commitment that you are bringing to this course I want to thank all the coordinators for doing all the work so that this is possible okay so with that I want to say thank you and Jai Hind