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Ways of Communicating

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      NITIE  was established by the Government of India in 1963. One of the perks of being a college this senior is its rich alumni network. Today, one of our alumni, Mr. Nikhil Kulkarni, graced us with his presence. Nikhil co-founded Darwin Tech in 2016 after quitting a job in a highly sought after domain, consulting.      In today's session, he emphasized on the importance of proper communication. He started with his rich experience in the consulting industry. In this industry, it is not just verbal communication that matters but also pictorial, graphical and written communication does. Some of the tools that can be used to communicate ideas are MS Word, MS PowerPoint, MS Excel, etc. Like the way different type of clothes are suitable for different occasions, these tools too are most suitable to convey a particular set of information. For instance, one should use MS PowerPoint for proposals whereas for financial reports, excel should be preferr...
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Business Communication 101

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       This week was the firsts for many things. However, I'll talk about my three recent learnings which I am sure is a significant value addition to my hard skills and my soft skills as well.       Firstly I would like to tell you what led to these three learnings. My Business Communication professor at National Institute of Industrial Engineering, Mumbai(NITIE Mumbai), Prof. T Prasad, gave the class an assignment about marketing our local product. In this assignment, I was supposed to make a poster, write a blog and ask people to read it, something which I have never done. I was reluctant at first. But eventually, blogs from my batchmates started to surface. the first ones were by occasional writers who just needed a little trigger to start with their first blog. This assignment was a tipping point for them. And the blogs that were surfaced was a tipping point for me to get out of my comfort zone. Now, here I am, writing my first blog thanks to...
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