WHO AM I?- Personality Development Training to Bolster Upskilling

The IT Department, through its IT Society organized a personality development training for students titled, “WHO AM I?” in 11th October 2022. The resource speaker was Dr. Wilfred Blessing N.R, Lecturer, IT Department, UTAS-Ibri. 

Before the start of the program, Ms Sara Al-Shukeili, the IT Society Coordinator introduced the speaker.  After which, she presented the agenda and objectives about the session which is to motivate the student community who aim at building his/her personality and to have a successful career path. The speaker pointed out that motivation is not only important in its own right; it is also an important tool to learning and accomplishment. Students who are more motivated produce higher quality outputs and perform better by upskilling themselves. 

During the first part of the presentation, the speaker focused the students to understand their individuality, uniqueness, self-esteem, self-awareness, personality traits, student inferiority complex and its types. The speaker explored the topics with suitable visual presentations, video demonstrations, online interactive voting and chats.

The second part of the presentation provides the types of self-confidence, strength of optimal self-confidence, need of Intelligence Quotient and Emotional Quotient, tips to develop high self-esteem, importance of manners – the outward expression of the personality, academic integrity and so forth. The final part of the session was a psychoanalysis exercises shared through a word document that holds the questionnaires and ratings to produce self-rating about the physical-self and mental-self of the students. This personality tests put the participants to identify their strengths, weaknesses, competence, and hidden skills. This exercise might help students to engage themselves in various student clubs or organizations in the university or departments for upskilling and reskilling student skills. Overall, the student participants have got a huge motivation and personality development tips to achieve success. A feedback was taken from 84 student-participants and as a result, a 4.51 results from a 1-5 scale was generated  which means that the students were satisfied with the presentation.