If cricket is the national obsession of India as far as sports is concerned, then ensuring that their child takes up engineering is definitely the obsession of every Indian parent. Our country produces close to 15 lakh engineers every year. So, even though I was not forced by anyone to take up engineering, I chose engineering. I, like every ambitious person, focused only on developing my technical skills, but I could never realize the importance of having interpersonal skills. Interpersonal skills play a very important role in our lives. In a recent survey it was found that although 87% of new college graduates were confident that they were adequately prepared to succeed in the workplace, only 50% of hiring managers shared this optimism. Research also suggested that the area they were deemed to be most lacking in were soft skills, such as communication, leadership and teamwork. I sooner than later identified that this is that skill set for which I have never worked or even thought upon and it didn’t come out naturally to me, as it comes to some people. The knowledge of lack of good communication skills gave me the chance to utilize assets to my advantage and work upon its improvement, as lack of awareness would not only harm me but also the organization I work in. The prospect of understanding what are my growth areas and most importantly how to improve upon them was the most challenging thing by far. What turned out well was the ever increasing rate of cellular-based phones and internet penetration. When I had my first phone and took my first sim card,
IDEA, I bridged the gap of being aware of my weak spot and doing tasks to improve it. IDEA and the phenomenal network it offered, helped me by mushrooming accessibility to people and work on my interpersonal skills. Among many, one of the ways it helped me was by making me more empathetic, empathy assisted me in addressing the needs of those around me. It also helped me in enhancing my listening skills, which in turn increased my ability to be an intent listener and further made my people skills better. Our general cultural climate seems to be one in which people are more concerned with expressing their points of view than trying to be receptive to listening and understanding different perspectives, but those people who listen and comprehend better make higher engagement with people in both aspects, professional and personal. Availability of internet and networking channel has made an unprecedented amount of information available to humans all over the world, so it enriched me also with an opportunity to excel in my knowledge content and put forward an intriguing concept while I have a conversation with people. Thus, improving my communication skills by finding ways to work upon them with the help of a medium, which worked as no other service provider did, was one of the most challenging tasks by far and I am grateful to the ‘ADITYA BIRLA GROUP’ for fulfilling it in an unparallel way.
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