PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

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• PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
• AND
• SOFT SKILLS
• Dr. Deepti Shastri
• Prof. HOD
• Anatomy
• VMKVMC
• Salem

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INTRODUCTION

• Complex, competitive, challenging professional
  environment
• Paradigm shift of Workplace culture
• Different skill needed to achieve personal growth
  and professional success
• SOFT SKILLS ( The HIDDEN CURRICULUM)

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HARD SKILLS v/s SOFT SKILLS

• Hard skills
• are the academic skills, experience and level of
  expertise as generally described in a resume
• Soft skills
• are essentially to be categorized as Self
  Development Skills, Interaction Skills,
  Leadership skills, Organization Skills and
  Communication Skills

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OBJECTIVES OF THE PROGRAMME

• Aimed at helping participants
• Become aware of what soft skills are
• To work on developing soft skills
• To develop a well groomed personality
• To hence enhance job performance

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PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENTOFTECHNICAL SKILLS

• Attending and presenting scientific papers in
  CONFERENCES
• Participating in WORKSHOPS ( Hands on experience
  )
• Updating knowledge through JOURNALS
• Attending CME programmes Seminars Clinical
  Society meetings
• Learning Using new skills ( RECENT ADVANCES)
• HIGHER STUDIES ( After MD, What else? DM/MCh/
  Fellowships etc)
• RESEARCH into newer methods of treatment/
  academic
• PUBLISH ARTICLES in Journals/ text books
• WRITE A TEXT BOOK

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SOFT SKILLS.WHY SHOULD YOU DO IT?

• Have you reached a plateau in your performance?
• To successfully perform a job function, you can
  reach a plateau in your performance when based
  exclusively on the technical aspects of the job. 
• In order to stand on  that plateau and rise to
  the next level, the understanding of your natural
  abilities and implementation of soft skills is
  crucial.

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BEING AND BECOMING

• Soft skills ( EQ.Emotional intelligence
  quotient) complement hard skills (part of a
  person's IQ, ), which are the technical
  requirements of a job.
• Soft skills are believed to be unchangeable,
  innate characteristics which are a part of the
  being.
• But you will be on the way to becoming better
  Doctors with your ability to develop your soft
  skills (DNADeveloping natural abilities) in a
  constructive manner as a part of life-long
  learning.

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Importance of soft skill

• Soft skills are very important
• To handle interpersonal relations
• To take appropriate decisions
• To communicate effectively
• To have good impression and impact to gain
  professional development

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What are the Soft Skills?

• Communication skills
• Body language
• Written communication skills
• Presentation skills
• Team work
• Professional ethics
• Interpersonal skills
• Time and stress management
• Leadership skills

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Communication skill as soft skill

• Communication skills form the
• corner stone of soft skill
• Every human being has to essentially
• effectively communicate with others
• Effective communication is the
• hallmark of ones education

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Body language

• Non verbal language
• Face is the index of the mind and it clearly
  displays the persons interest
• Body language presents to the audience what we
  feel think about a particular matter
• Eg Nodding ones head
• Body language (e.g, arms crossed, standing,
  sitting, relaxed)
• Emotion of the sender receiver (e.g, speaking
  clearly, enthusiastic)

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Written communication Skill

• Writing evaluates a persons proficiency
  Indications spelling, grammar etc
• Errors committed while writing circulars,
  reports agenda considerably spoil the image of
  the writer.

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Presentation Skills

• Presentation skills include planning, preparation
  delivery of the message.
• Making a formal speech is one form of
  presentation.
• Presentation skills can be broadly categorized
  into physical, oral, electronic.
• Good visual presentation using graphics, color,
  balanced design layout- adds so much to written
  communication.
• Keep handouts and other written materials for
  your presentation.

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Presentation Skills

• Success in life depends on presenting ideas in an
  appropriate manner
• Look at the eyes of audience speak in a
  natural, conversational voice
• Appropriate voice will make the presentation
  effective and interesting
• Ask for feed back from your audience about your
  presentation change accordingly
• In presentation especially, stop occasionally to
  ask the audience understand what you have said

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Team Work

• People of either gender, different age groups,
  qualification, status skills work as a team
  with a common objective of accomplishing the
  task.
• The success of any organization largely depends
  on the coordinated efforts of its employees.
• It mainly refers to the agreeableness
  co-operation among the team members.

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Professional ethics

• Professional ethics is the need of the hour
• When a person is at the work spot, he must think
  of his work only
• He must put his heart soul into the work
• Each employee is an organic part of the
  organization must strive to contribute his
  might to the successful functioning of the
  organization

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Interpersonal Skills

• Man is a social animal his success in life
  largely depends on his relationship interaction
  with others.
• We must respect the views sentiments of
  others.
• When we want to differ their views, we must very
  politely give hints to them without hurting their
  feelings.

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Time Stress Management

• Prioritize the work schedule your time
  accordingly
• Important work should be allotted more time
  taken up first
• Listening to music, practicing meditation
  Yoga may considerably reduce the physical,
  emotional mental stress of an individual

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Leadership communication skills

• Leaders, need to be very clear about what they
  expect from others
• Keep smiling
• Share stay together
• Always learn new things
• Accept responsibility for your self your
  actions
• Look at solve problems challenges
• Be grateful always
• Love and Trust yourself

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• SOFT SKILLS PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP
• HOW THE SYSTEM WORKS
• Client takes assessment (Kolbe A ,  True Colors
  ,  Strengths Finder ,  Myers-Briggs ,  DISC)   
  Each person completes the assessment which
  includes answering a series of questions about
  themselves honestly.  This process takes about 20
  to 30 minutes.
• Report  is generated Once the assessment is
  complete, the individual is introduced to the
  results in the form of a report detailing their
  assessed natural ablilities and their likely
  approach to certain scenarios.
• Internal challenge Initially, the individual
  may deny or challenge the results.  In some
  cases, they dont want to believe that these are
  their natural abilities. The workshop consultants
  work with them to validate those results.
• Ah Ha! When the person actually realizes that
  the results are accurate and their natural
  abilities have been defined.
• Acceptance This is what happens after the ah
  ha moment when the person stops resisting the
  results, and accepts their natural abilities for
  what they are.
• Embrace (Zone of Excellence) -  The person
  decides to use this information about their
  natural abilities to empower their life by
  consciously choosing how they can perform a task
  in a way that is naturally more efficient for
  them and to reduce the number of things they are
  not naturally good at.
• Connect with others / Integrate all skills (power
  zone) - During a workshop members of teams become
  aware of not only their own natural abilities,
  but also the abilities of their coworkers
  resulting in effective teamwork, better
  communications, and management based on
  strengths.

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• Training alone is not a sufficient condition for
  actual behavioral changes in daily practice the
  intention to change also has to be present.

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• Development of soft skills is a part of life-long
  learning.
• The process does not begin and with your job.
• It is something you have learnt as a child.
• You must adopt it as a Philosophy of life.
• It will be conducive to the continuous
  improvement of your professional behavior.

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• So long as you have an inclination to
  self-improvement, in all aspects of your life,
  you are well on your way to be a good
  everything!

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THANK YOU