KATHMANDU, JUNE 26

India's renowned behavioural scientist Prof of Eminence Sanjeev P Sahni has emphasised 'maximising potential through behavioural competencies and performance enhancement of students'.

Addressing a press meet organised in Kathmandu today, he elaborated on enhancing various social, emotional, and cognitive abilities among students through competency mapping techniques and highlighted how academic performance, emotional satiation, and career success were functions of their behavioural stimuli.

'It is important to understand the relative strengths and weaknesses of students and based on these, to identify key competencies that need to be worked upon. It is all about identifying skills and strengths of students in areas like teamwork, leadership and decision making and then building a corrective mechanism based on that,' said Prof Sahni who was recently also elected as vice-president of the World Society of Victimology.

In recent years, researchers and behavioural scientists like Prof Sahni focused on identifying competencies as a key element for measuring performance of students.

He suggested using techniques like audio-visual infotainment, subliminal training, meditation, speed-reading, and memory games to improve the academic and social performance of students.

'There is a need to widen trans-disciplinary approach in social-cognitive psychology studies in a bid to assess, evaluate and then find remedies and solutions to the laxities of the student community,' he said. Prof Sahni also heads Jindal Institute of Behavioural Sciences in India.

Behaviour competencies is one of the excellent life skills which helps build interpersonal relation within professionals as well as within peer group. The competency of a person is always judged on a parameter of its critical and creative communication skill.

Prof Sahni has trained over 200,000 students, school principals, teachers, senior government officials, industry professionals in more than 50 countries in areas of competency mapping, business communications, decision making, stress management, performance enhancement, emotional intelligence, and best teaching practices.

He has published more than 40 research articles in international and national indexed journals and has 19 books to his credit.

A version of this article appears in the print on June 27, 2022, of The Himalayan Times.