21SSK211 LIFE SKILLS II-
Professional Grooming and Practices: Basics of Corporate culture, Key pillars of Business Etiquette, Basics of Etiquette: Etiquette – Socially acceptable ways of behaviour, Personal hygiene, Professional attire, Cultural Adaptability, Introductions and Greetings: Rules of the handshake, Earning respect, Business manners, Telephone Etiquette: activities during the conversation, Conclude the call, To take a message, Body Language: Components, Undesirable body language, Desirable body language, Adapting to Corporate life: Dealing with people, Group Discussions: Advantages of Group Discussions, Structured GD – Roles, Negative roles to be avoided, Personality traits to do well in a GD, Initiation techniques, How to perform in a group discussion, Summarization techniques, Listening Comprehension advanced: Exercise on improving listening skills, Grammar
basics: Topics like clauses, punctuation, capitalization, number agreement, pronouns, tenses etc, Reading Comprehension advanced: A course on how to approach middle level reading comprehension passages, Problem solving – Money Related problems; Mixtures; Symbol Based problems; Clocks and Calendars; Simple, Linear, Quadratic and Polynomial Equations; Special Equations; Inequalities; Functions and Graphs; Sequence and Series; Set Theory; Permutations and Combinations; Probability; Statistics, Data Sufficiency: Concepts and Problem Solving, Non-Verbal Reasoning and Simple Engineering Aptitude: Mirror Image; Water Image; Paper Folding; Paper Cutting; Grouping Of Figures; Figure Formation and Analysis; Completion of Incomplete Pattern; Figure Matrix; Miscellaneous, Special Aptitude: Cloth, Leather, 2D and 3D Objects, Coin, Match Sticks, Stubs, Chalk, Chess Board, Land and geodesic problems etc., Related Problems
TEXTBOOKS:
- A Communicative Grammar of English: Geoffrey Leech and Jan Svartvik. Longman, London.
- Adair J (1986) – “Effective Team Building: How to make a winning team”, London, U.K: Pan Books.
- Gulati S (2006) – “Corporate Soft Skills”, New Delhi, India: Rupa& Co.
- The Hard Truth about Soft Skills, by Amazone Publication.
REFERENCES:
- Quantitative Aptitude, by R S Aggarwal, S Chand Publ.
- Verbal and Non-verbal Reasoning, R S Aggarwal, S Chand Publ.
- Quantitative Aptitude by AbjithGuha, Tata McGraw hill Publ.
- More Games Teams Play, by Leslie Bendaly, McGraw-Hill Ryerson.
- The BBC and British Council online resources
- Owl Purdue University online teaching resources
- www.thegrammarbook.com online teaching resources
- www.englishpage.com online teaching resources and other useful websites.