‘National Training Workshop on Personality Development’ at IWSB.

Indus World School of Business (IWSB), Greater Noida conducted a Two-Day National Training Workshop on Personality Development from 20-21^st October 2010. Peoples from all works of life like students, Library professionals, and academician attended the workshop. Around 75 people attended the workshop. In the Inaugural Session Chief guest Dr. Janardhan Jha kicked off the workshop by lightning the lamp along with Satya Narayanan R who is the founder and chairman of IWSB, Executive Director Arindam Lahiri IWSB and Dr. Rajesh Kumar. Janardan Jha, who is presently Director, Amity center for innovation and New Concept, Amity University Noida Uttar Pradesh also shared some words of wisdom. Dr. Rajesh Kumar, Organizing Secretary gave the introductory remarks. The first Speaker on the first day was Dr. Rakesh Kumar Bhatt. Dr. R.K Bhatt who is presently serving as Associate Professor and Head, Department of Library and Information Science, University of Delhi touched on the key points of the Personality such as Interpersonal Skills, Communication Skills, Basic Etiquettes, Body Language, Time Management, Stress Management etc. After that Sreenivasan Ramakrishnan, Co-Founder IWSB and Career Launcher took the session. This was mostly an interactive session, where he used many tools to help the participants understand more about their personality. Like how ambitious one is? How much growth oriented one is? and many more such traits about one’s personality. Overall the main motive was to get a clear picture of one’s personality and where all is the scope of improvement lies. Prof. Arindam Lahiri took the next session. His topic was the Locus of control. This session also used loco inventory tools to give a clear picture of one’s locus of control. The second day started with Dr. C.V Ramanan’s session. Dr. Ramanan is the Director at National Academy for Training and Development, ISTD. He shared with the participants the unique concept of Total Quality Person (TQP) and how one can be a Total Quality Person. The session was full of very interesting and fabulous stories. It was really a very enlightening session and the end of which Dr. Ramanan also shared how one can achieve what one want to in his life. Dr. Jaideep Sharma who is Associate Professor Social Sciences, IGNOU, conducted the last session. He concentrated on the topic of competency mapping of professionals. He mentioned about three key attributes knowledge, skills and attitude. These three play a key role in an individual’s efficiency and his competency mapping. The two-day workshop ended by Prof. Arindam Lahiri’s Valedictory remarks. Dr. Rajesh Kumar delivered a vote of thanks. Overall the workshop was a grand success.