Workshop on “Understanding misunderstanding “

A one-day workshop on “Understanding misunderstanding “, was organized at IIIM Auditorium, on January 25, 2007. Management Guru, Professor M. M. Monippally, Chairperson, Communication Area, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, was the resource person for the workshop.   

The workshop was organized to hone up the communication skills of the budding managers and acquaint them about the pitfalls & barriers in effective communication. Prof. Monippally initiated his enriching session by encouraging the students to dream big and motivated them not to refrain from taking risks. He opined failures as the “pillars to success”.  

He described communication model as “a messy inferential process” – inference, he said, is based on clues – verbal and non-verbal. Further Prof. Monippally discussed the ways and means to reduce misunderstanding by citing practical evidences and interesting exercises.  

The session successfully fulfilled the objective of adding value to the existing curriculum and overall development of personality of the budding managers.