View source for HRDC Soft Skills Aug23

=== Adolescence - why talk about it ? ===

=== Pedagogical Leadership in Academic Institutions ===
Using Peter Senge's '''The Fifth Discipline''' as a reference, the session focussed on evolving a shared institutional vision through individual visioning, as the basis for leadership. 

The session began with sharing by participants from their own experiences/understanding the following questions

What are challenges being faced by our institutions?

● Aspirations

– What are the aspirations of the institution?

– What are aspirations of faculty?

– What are student aspirations?

– what are parent's aspirations?

● What is the need or purpose for leadership?

The nature of leadership as a shared role than a set of traits, the possibility for each faculty to 'achieve leadership' by developing personal capacities, the need for "collegiality" in an academic institution was discussed.

Presentation slides available [[:File:HRDC Pedagogical Leadership.pdf|here]].

=== Learning Writing Skills ===
This was a session on 'writing skills' for college teachers. It started with a general discussion of the human abilities of language and thought. The discussion then proceeded to the qualities that help someone become a good writer, such as the 'courage' to take a position and to accept one's mistakes. The presentation then moved on to different kinds of writing, which included essays and creative works. As this was a session for people with an academic backgrounds, the next major topic we considered was academic writing. After a slightly involved discussion of academic writing in different disciplines, the session concluded. The slides of the presentation can be downloaded here. 

=== Task/Time Management with spreadsheet ===
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