JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY HYDERABAD

22BBA206: PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT AND SOFT SKILLS

BBA (Data Analytics) II Semester (R22)

Course Objectives:

To facilitate students to understand the personality development and its importance in life.
To develop self awareness, soft, hard and life skills for skill improvement.
To learn about soft skills for betterment.
To understand the team work culture in organizations and its importance in organization.
To develop soft skills for effective performance in organization.

Course Outcomes

Students will be able to:

Understand about personality aspects for positive development.
Know about self through psychometric analysis.
Apply language and communication skills for improvement of self.
Develop leadership skills and negotiation skills.
Bring change in the business through self development.

UNIT - I: Introduction to Personality

Concept of personality, profile of a pleasing personality. Factors affecting personality. Test on the dimensions of personality: Openness, Conscientiousness, Agreeableness, Extraversion, and Neuroticism; concept of attitude: positive vs negative, ways to develop a positive attitude; caselets: comparison of positive vs negative attitude personalities. Concept of Motivation: Test on Maslow’s need hierarchy to learn what motivates us.

UNIT - II: Self Discovery (knowing yourself)

Creating self-awareness by undergoing various personality & psychometric tests such as SWOC Analysis, Johari Window, Transactional Analysis, Conflict modes; quotients such as Intelligence Quotient (IQ), Emotional Quotient, adversity quotient and spirituality quotient. Introspection and working on feedback from others for continual development. Skills need to be effective: (i) Soft Skills,

(ii) Hard Skills, (iii)Life Skills.

UNIT - III: Soft Skills at Individual level

Need for and scope of soft skills for a successful career. Need of soft skills at different levels: individual, team and organizational level. Soft Skills for individual Level: language Skills (including grammar & vocabulary); Communication skills including verbal, written and body language skills; discipline, concentration, time management, active listening, empathy, perseverance, stress management, critical thinking, creativity, etiquettes etc. skill based questionnaire administration for select soft skills.

UNIT - IV: Soft Skills at team level: Interpersonal Skills

Need and scope of interpersonal skills. skills to develop: leadership skills, problem solving skills, managing conflicts, negotiation skills, building trust, coaching, providing feedback, dealing with difficult people etc. skill based questionnaire administration for select soft skills.

UNIT - V: Soft Skills at organization level

Leading change, influencing skills, networking and relation skills, empowering others, partnering skills etc. Skill based questionnaire administration for select soft skills.