Personality Development and Soft Skills Crash Course

This course contains nine units. The introduction provided at the start of each unit summarizes contents within that unit. The students should study this carefully so as to have idea of the syllabi and prepare themselves for the solution of assignments, assessment questions, activities, and final examination. A brief introduction of the whole course is provided in the following paragraphs. Soft skills are personal attributes that enable an individual to interact effectively
and harmoniously with other people. Soft Skills are very important for every individual to sustain and grow in any work place in life.
According to a research conducted in Harvard and Stanford Universities only 15% of your career success is provided by your hard skills, whilst other 85% by so called soft skills. Soft skills get little respect but will make or break your career. The soft skills are skills relating to one's personal attributes. These include; communication skills, interpersonal skills, team building and leadership, stress management, decision making, problem solving, and workplace etiquette etc. The soft skills facilitate an individual that how he/she should react and interact in the work place, and in life and how effectively he/she should deal with his/her managers, co-workers, subordinates and others in general. Soft skills, also known as people skills,
complement hard skills to enhance an individual's relationships, job performance and career prospects. It's often said that hard skills will get you an interview but you need soft skills to get and keep the job. Unlike hard skills, which comprise a
person's technical skills set and ability to perform certain functional tasks, soft skills are interpersonal and broadly applicable across job titles and industries. Many soft skills are tied to individuals' personalities rather than any formal training, and are thus, considered more difficult to develop than hard skills. This course covers the soft skills namely; Communication skills, Interpersonal relationships, Team building and leadership, Time management and managing
stress, Thinking and presentation skills, Problem solving, Decision making, and Employment communication and workplace etiquette. These can be acquired via teaching or direct experiences that are used to handle problems and questions
commonly encountered in daily human life. These skills are very important for librarians for their professional grooming and development. With these skills a professional librarian can perform their job-related tasks as well as daily life activates in a more professional and better way. Thus, this course has been particularly designed for library and information
sciences students with the purpose to prepare them for their future role in librarianship. The expected learning outcomes of this course include a combination of knowledge, values, attitudes and skills with a particular emphasis on its use in professional as well as daily activities