Experimental Learning for Group Disucssions

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Do you know that you can be gauged whether you have the following personality traits or not while being interviewed by a company HR:-

• Ability to work in a team
• Communication skills
• Reasoning ability
• Leadership skills
• Initiative
• Assertiveness
• Flexibility
• Creative Ability

To discover these many traits companies conduct Group discussions. One has to work in teams, as a member, manager or leader after getting into a company. Therefore it’s important to interact in a team during GD session.

There are critical observations made by the interviewers viz, Leadership & attitude, Content, Group dynamics, Listening Skills, Body Language. Out of these Leadership, content and Listening Skills are most important ones.

The million dollar question is how to get the GD skills mastered overnight? For this you might need a magic wand.

I have at least interacted about 300 students in this quarter. I have observed that most of the students don’t use their precious college time in a planned and effective manner.

The college management should create enough opportunities to the students to form clubs and forums do these kinds of mock programs. They can always invite industry mentors to help set direction. The management should also not make money through these programs. Management, faculty should help the students master these skills through experimental learning.

Anyone can do a simple google search to find out different models available. However, if you need any special program you can contact me at babavss@gmail.com.

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