GC UNIVERSITY holds workshop ON PERSONALITY DEVELOMENT for PEEF scholarship holders

The GC University Lahore Saturday organized a special day-long training workshop titled ‘personality development and communication skills’ for the university’s students who have been awarded scholarships under the Punjab Educational Endowment Fund (PEEF). Shahzeb Khan and Siddique Awan were the course instructors.

As many as 81 students enrolled in the intermediate and undergraduate programmes of GCU attended the workshop conducted and designed by the university’s English Department on the special request of PEEF. The training was focused on interpersonal, presentation and interaction skills, time-management, critical thinking and the art of appropriate attire. The workshop instructors also conducted various activities with the students besides detailed multimedia lectures and question answer sessions. The instructors asked the students to make the list of their short-term and long-term objectives, happiness wishes and daily routine. Later, a detailed discussion was held on the efforts of students to achieve these targets.

Later, Punjab Educational Endowment Fund Manager Scholarships Naveed Akbar Cheema lauded the professional approach adopted by the workshop instructors and thanked the GCU for having conceived and conducting and innovative workshop which was first of its kind. At the end Babar Ali Deputy Registrar (Academics) GCU Lahore thanked the PEFF’s representative for an active liaison with the University. The participants of the workshop expressed elation for having attended this novel workshop.

(02-11-2009)