Team Building and Stress Management

Paper Code: 
LAD 420
Credits: 
2
Contact Hours: 
30.00
Objective: 

The course aims at helping students to work in team building, and stress management, helping students with leadership skills and working on their body language. To expose students to various industry experts for experience sharing.

6.00
Unit I: 
Icebreaker: getting to know each other

Activities, team building games, 5 stage team building model and its application, team processes

6.00
Unit II: 
Leadership skills

What you have to be, to be a leader, what you need to do, turning core leadership function into skill, developing as a leader, principles to grow leaders in the organization

6.00
Unit III: 
Stress Management

Fundamental facts about worry, basic techniques in analysing and overcoming stress, channelizing stress to hobby and passion, 7 ways to cultivate a mental attitude that will bring you peace and happiness

6.00
Unit IV: 
Body Language

Gestures, Posture, Greeting, Handshake, Eye contact, expressions, inborn responses, conveying and showing disapproval and rejection, shrugging signals, the language of sound, mastering first impressions.

6.00
Unit V: 
Seminar and Industry expert session

These will be conducted by industry leaders as question answer session and experience sharing

Essential Readings: 

• Tonya Reiman (2007), The Power of Body Language: How to Succeed in Every Business and Social Encounter.
• John Adair (2007), Develop Your Leadership Skills
• Dale Carnegie, how to stop worrying and start living
• Kelly McGonigal (2015), The Upside of Stress: Why Stress Is Good for You, and How to Get Good at It.

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