Your experience in the business world must have made you realize the importance of generating, organizing & communication complex thoughts in your day-to-day life. The ability to speak with confidence while making presentations assumes the capability of the presenters to control their content, their audience and more importantly, themselves. The sessions thus planned aim at training the participants in developing this ability.
Keeping in view the above, the objectives of the course are the following:
1. The students should be able to generate, organize and communicate their thoughts orally before an audience,
2. The students should be able to make presentations using appropriate technology.
Session plan
Session 1: Wednesday 16 October 2013
Making Individual Presentations (IP) for practice + feedback on presentations
made. (RECORDING and FEEDBACK)
Session 2: Sunday 20 October 2013
Basics of Communication.
Listening & Feedback
Role of feedback for self developmentSession 3: Monday 21 October 2013 (8:30-10:30AM)
Feedback on mock IPs continued….
Basics of Presentation Skills: The Self-The Content-The Audience
Session 4: Monday 21 October 2013(2:00-4:00PM)
Practice sessions: Corporate Group Discussions (RECORDING and
FEEDBACK) Assessment 1: Individual Presentation I = 10% + instant feedback on IP
Assessment 2: A case as exercise = 10%
Session 5: Tuesday 22 October 2013
Feedback on PPT slides (sample slides)+
Preparation time for Group Project Presentations
Session 6: Wednesday 23 October 2013
Assessment 3: Individual Presentation II = 10% + instant feedback on IP
Assessment 4: Making Group Presentations for feedback and evaluation
(presentation of PROJECT 1 and 2) = 20%
Session 7: Thursday 24 October 2013
Assessment 4 continued: Making Individual & Group Presentations for feedback
and evaluation (presentation of PROJECT 3) = 20%
Assessment 5: Group Discussions for Evaluation (all 3 groups) = 10%
Session 8: Friday 25 October 2013Managing Self for Managing Communication
Recap & Summary
Evaluation Pattern:
Individual Presentations : 10%+10%
Case (group assignment) : 10%
Group Discussion : 10%
Group Presentations : 20%
End Term : 40%
Academic Integrity and Code of Conduct:
Any unfair means in examinations will invite heavy penalty. It may also invite an ‘F’ in the component/course.
Late comers to the class will not be given attendance. They may also be refrained from attending the class. Each absence from the class will make the student lose (.5) point five grade point.
Compulsory Reading:
Book: Business Communication: Skills, Concepts and Applications. (3rd Edition) by P.D. Chaturvedi and Mukesh Chaturvedi. Pearson Publishers.
IMPORTANT: PARTICIPANTS WILL BE EXPECTED TO READ ALL THE HANDOUTS GIVEN IN CLASS FROM TIME TO TIME AND, THE TOPICS COVERED IN CLASS FROM THE BOOK GIVEN TO THEM AS PART OF THE READING MATERIAL.
THE PARTICIPANTS WILL MAKE GROUP PRESENTATIONS ON VARIOUS TOPICS RELATED TO COMMUNICATION AS IT TAKES PLACE IN ORGANIZATIONS. THIS WILL ENCOURAGE EXCHANGE OF IDEAS & REAL-LIFE EXPERIENCES.
THIS COURSE OUTLINE MAY CHANGE DEPENDING ON STUDENT PROFILE OR STUDENT NEED
I hope you will find the sessions rewarding and enjoyable!!
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