1. Soft Skills & Personality Development

2. Personality Development

3. Personality Development
Learn social skills
Do not avoid social interactions
Know your positives
Get Out Of Your Comfort Zone

4. Quick Activity......
10 Minutes.... Have a social interaction.... Meet the Maximum People and interact.. (Name, Place, Schooling, Hobbies, Favourite Food, Movie, Personality)

5. Personality Development
Don’t Fear Failure
Make Yourself Known
Come Across As A Leader
Believe that you are unique
Be funny & don’t be serious always

6. Quick Activity...
“I Am Unique Because ”

7. Defining Soft Skills
To be successful in one’s career, we need two kinds of competence
Having Knowledge & Being able to perform using the same
Knowing what to do and knowing how to do a job

8. Hard Skills Vs Soft Skills
Educational Back ground, Experience, and Expertise, Technical Knowledge
An engineer can carry out certain job that a doctor can not.
Soft Skills
Behaviour competencies encompass personality traits, and are reflected through qualities such as empathy, leadership and sociability

9. 21st Century Soft Skills Critical Creative Positive Thinking
Leadership
Assertiveness
Negotiation Skills
Self-Management
People Skills-Communication
Building Relationship Skills
Being a Team Player

10. Creative Thinking Means being able to come with something new
If you can create something, not only you enrich your personal life, you will have an advantage in whatever filed you enter
Ability to come up with innovative ideas and apply them in relevant contexts and situation
Unleashing new possibilities, theories, and innovations, intuition
Ability to see pattern that are obvious

11. Solve the Mystery Riddle-1
A Man was found dead with a cassette recorder in one hand and gun in the other. When the police came in, they immediately pressed the play button on the cassette. He said, “ I have nothing else to live for. I can’t go on,” then the sound of a gunshot. After listening to the cassette tape, the police knew that it was not a suicide, but a murder. How did they Know?

12. Answer
If the man shot himself while he was recording, how did he rewind the cassette tape?

13. Solve the Mystery Riddle-2
A detective who was mere days away from cracking an international oil smuggling ring has suddenly gone missing. While inspecting his last-known location officers find a note: Currently there are 3 suspects: Bill, John, and Todd Can you break the detective’s code and find the criminal’s name?

14. Answer
Bill is suspect, if read upside down the numbers read “Bill is Boss. He sells oil.”
oil sells he boss is bill

15. Solve the Mystery Riddle-3
A man is found murdered on a Sunday morning. His wife calls the police, who question the wife and the staff.
The wife says she was sleeping,
The butler was cleaning the clothes,
The gardener was picking vegetables,
The maid was receiving the money order,
The cook was preparing the breakfast.
Immediately, the police arrest the murderer.
Who did it and how did the police know?

16. Answer
The maid. Post man doesn’t come to give money order on Sunday.

17. Creative Thinking
Each creative thought should be tested again and again
Discuss your ideas with others who have similar interests. Idea Borrowing
Don’t feel offended when somebody criticises it. Let the criticism be the beginning of new thinking

18. Creative Thinking and the Job Search
Most of job states that Creative Thinking is required for the position
In that case, you should come to interview prepared with specific examples to showcase your creativity
Many employers want creative thinkers even though they haven’t articulated it.

19. Creative Interview Answers
What’s your greatest weakness?
You can have a little fun and say “Chocolate!”
“ I used to stress and worry about my weaknesses, but over time I realised that should focus on my strength, like technical designs and etc...”

20. Why should we hire you?
“ I am smart, I’m hard-working, and I keep my home clean and organized...”
“ All I can say is that this conversation should take us a long way towards determining whether we’re meant to work together or not. If it is so than, You’ll know it...”

21. Where do you see yourself after five years?
“ I will be working hard at one or several of things I’m passionate about- may be engineering designs, or music, or a combination of the two!”

22. What makes you a top performer?
“That’s a very situational question in my view. If we can dig into the specifics of what this job requires. I can share some stories with you that illustrates how I solved similar problems and dealt with similar situation before.

23. Examples of Creative Thinking
Artistic Creativity:
Designing logos
Writing advertisement
Designing the packaging for a product
Drafting a script to attract client

24. Creative Problem Solving
Finding Maximum solutions for the problem
Identifying new ways of doing tasks
Suggesting a way to improve customer service service
Preparing budget
Designing a more efficient product
Error finding and solution
Team building and motivation

25. Let’s have quick activities..
Group Activities
Thinking as many uses of _____________
Redesigning Brochure
Sketch out your idea

26. People Skills
In general, good people skills are defined as the ability to listen, to communicate and to relate to others on a personal or professional level. Good people skills also extend to include problem- solving abilities, empathy for others and a willingness to work together toward the common good.
Communication, Empathy, Conflict Resolution, Patience, Tolerance

27. Quick Fire Activity: People Skills
You’re 20 minutes late for work because the train was late. It’s the third time it’s happened this week. What do you say to your boss?
You’re in the middle of counting some stock when your boss asks you to go to the cafe to get coffee for her meeting. Usually her assistant would do it but he’s off sick today. How do you respond?
An important report has to be sent off by 5 pm on Saturday. It’s now 2 pm on and there’s still a few more hours’ work to do before the report will be ready to send. Next day is Sunday. What do you do?

28. Finding Investor for Social Entrepreneurship Idea
You are bunch of folks having contributor personality.
You are really concerned about __________________as a major social issue. You all want a solution for the same.
In the same line, after much thinking, you find the positive solution in the form of social entrepreneurship.
Your social entrepreneur idea is _____________________having two objectives: 1) Social Reform 2) Your profit
To convert this idea into reality, you require investors who can invest their capital for your idea.
After many efforts you fix the meeting with XYZ Industry who are investing money on social entrepreneurship. If you are able to convince them, they will be ready to help you out.
How will you convince them to invest on your idea?
What sort of ideas do you have to convince them?
Use your PEOPLE SKILLS to get the positive outcome

29. References i-become active guide.
Soft Skills: A Textbook for Undergraduates