Don Bosco Tech Punalur arranged an online guest lecture session of “Personality Development” through the Google Meet application on 15 November 2021 for the Accenture Batch Phase11 (Retail Sales Associate and E-Commerce Executive).

Fr. Johnson Joseph (Centre Head), the staff members and 53 trainees participated in the session. It started at 10:30 am with a prayer song by our trainee Ms. Christeena Binu and our trainer Mrs. Gracy Francis, English Trainer welcomed all the participants. She talked about “Personality Development” and “Motivation and Proactive Behaviours for Achievers”. The speaker focused on Resilience Scale and tested the resilience of participants through an activity.

The programme aimed at teaching the participants to work with various professionals, trainees and groups to understand the meaning of life and work in the present context, to enhance their communication skills and interpersonal skills in order to function in professional and social settings effectively, to enrich the academic language skills (writing and presentation skills) for academic writing and presentations; to understand effective planning, time management and implementation for setting goals and achieving both personal and professional goals, to learn to evaluate oneself (self-appraisal and introspection) for further growth, personally and professionally. Human personality influences and impacts the functioning of an individual and organization.

Understanding one’s own personality and nurturing it well enables one to be a fine human being and an effective professional. Humans need to learn how to cope with the problems and face the hardships while shaping our careers to become professionals and contributing citizens. Here the education is to enable young adults to understand the careers in the liberal sense and to take forward it for the better. The students enrich various aspects of their personality and shape themselves in achieving their pursuits.

Fr. Johnson Joseph mentioned different aspects of personality and how participants would be benefitted from this kind of programme.

He delivered his speech on Living in the 21st Century. He pointed out how to learn, live & work in this century. Participants were asked to present different skills of the 21st century.

He further discussed the following ideas.

  • Freedom is not free
  • English language is a skill today
  • Why is quality education elusive?
  • Is social life deteriorating?

Trainees prepared their themes and ideas in their minds and then presented them according to their respective thoughts. They discussed the main theme of their selected idea and the advantages and disadvantages.

He delivered a talk on “Barriers of communication skills”. He explained the common barriers in communication and how to overcome that and discussed time demands at work, time management style, planning and scheduling, finishing things and self-motivation. The speaker mentioned that above all ‘be honest to own self’.

Then he exposed “How to develop personality”. He discussed the nature of personality and its importance. There is a serious need to change the mindset of the younger generations.

Then he delivered his speech on Preparation for a Good Life. He focused on the support system of individuals in their daily life. There is a need to set the direction in our efforts.

“In order to be knowledgeable in these changing times, we must pursue a constant program of self-improvement, a never-ending journey into new fields of knowledge and learning.”

The session ended with a vote of thanks by Mrs. Geethu (Retail Trainer)at 11:45 am.