After the formal launch by Dr Dr Abdul Kalam and inspiring welcome speech by Mr T S Krishnamurthy, former Chief Election Commissioner of India and Chairman of Bharathiya Vidya Bhavan on 10th July 2010, the regular sessions started on Sunday the 11th July 2010. Inaugural talk by Mr P K Doraiswamy IAS (Retd), Former Chief Secretary to Government of AP and the Chairman of Board of Studies of the Bhavan was an eye opener for the participants. His inspiring speech covered four pillars of communication namely 1) Technique , 2) Content , 3) Morale and 4) Context. The other members of Board of Studies also shared their views briefly during this opening session.
Mr. V N Gopalan , Former Director General of Defence accounts and presently the Director of Bharathiya Vidya Bhavan, Chennai expressed the importance of communication covering 1) Choice of words 2) Tone 3) Body Language and shared his experience with Political leaders.
Prof V. Chandrasekar, covered many areas stressing upon importance of communication through ABC technique. 1) Accuracy 2) Brevity 3) Clarity. His interpretation of “Medium is Message” as “ Medium is Massage” and “Medium is Mass Age” was quite revealing. He suggested the participants to read good quality news papers and watch good channels to improve the communication skills.
Prof K. Prabakar expressed his views about the importance of communication in his own style focussing on positive thinking.
Mr.Srikanth, Managing Director, Diana Shutters Limited stressed the importance of brief and effective communication.
Ms.Meera Raghavendra Rao, a well known columnist expressed the critical importance of communication quoting her real time experience from the Journalist perspective.
Program Director Mr K.Srinivasan and Academic coorinator Prof. S. Krishnamurthy managed the entire program for the day and fine tuned the course schedule, timings, Topics, and Attendance etc. in consultation with the participants to suit their requirement.
I, on behalf of all the participants, thank all the organizers of this wonderful programme for their dedication to make this courese very successful one. Great effort from everyone. I am sure this is going to be the best course we have ever attended in our life.
Pl see the photo stream of the first day session of the course.
(contributed by Narayanan Sundararajan, a participant)
