Group Discussion: Skills For GD

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Group Discussion

Skills for GD
Skills
Interactive Skills
Leadership skills
Flexibility
Creativity
Initiation
Awareness
Confidence
1. Interactive Skills:

Verbal communication
Non verbal communication
Leadership skills

⮚Encourage other members


⮚Everyone’s responsibility
Flexibility

Accept the points of others


Don’t be a stubborn participant
Creativity

Have different ideas and


alternate solution
Initiation

Ensure that you have something substantial to say


Awareness

Read a lot and aware about current


happenings in the world
⮚Confidence

⮚Important quality during GD


⮚Etiquettes to achieve
⮚1. wait for the right moment
⮚2. Be prepared

⮚Get your thoughts together before


you start to speak
⮚Basic phrases
⮚You are right
⮚I agree
⮚Definitely
⮚Absolutely exactly
Additional phrases
⮚I think so too
⮚Spot on !
⮚That’s a good point
⮚Yes, I agree with the point you are making
⮚I see where you are getting at
⮚I couldn’t have agreed more
⮚You hit the nail on the head
Disagree
⮚Yes, but…..
⮚I don’t really agree with that idea because….
⮚I see things rather differently
⮚That’s a good point but…..
⮚I see what you are getting at…….but….
Disagree
⮚I have a little different opinion on this…..
⮚That’s one way of looking at things however
⮚As far as I am concerned…..
Interrupt
⮚I am sorry to interrupt but I’d like to make a point
here
⮚Would you mind if I come in for a moment?
⮚May I quickly add something here?
Interrupt
⮚Before we go a head, I’d just like to quickly add
that………..

⮚Well, it reminds me of……then go on with the


situation
Dos of participating in a GD

1. Listen carefully

2. Note your points

3. Support with facts and figures

4. Give chance to others

5. Speak politely

6. Summarize
Don’t of participating in a GD

1. Don’t over speak

2. Don’t initiate, if you don’t have sufficient knowledge

3. Don’t talk irrelevant things

4. Avoid negative gestures


Don’t of participating in a GD

1. Don’t dominate

2. Avoid embarrassing situation

3. Avoid showing lack of confidence


By

ou
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Assistant professor

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Department of English

T Kongu Engineering College, Perundurai.

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