A session On Consulting and Communication By Nikhil Kulkarni

 18 August 2020

Today Prof T. Prasad invited an alumnus of NITIE Mumbai Mr. Nikhil Kulkarni as guest speaker in our Business Communication class. He is co founder of Darwin Tech. He worked for a decade in KPMG and later he decided that to leave KPMG to pursue his dream of startup. He talk about the importance of communication skills in today's market.

Business communication in Consulting

 He discussed about the qualities that one should have to be a good business consultant. One should know how to articulate himself. It is very important to communicate effectively with  our superiors, team and our clients. In consultancy profession 80% work is about communication. 

He told that MS office plays a key role in the growth as professional. One should have commands on tools like EXCEL, PowerPoint and Word.

PERSONAL BRANDING

He talked about importance of personal branding for your unique identity. to be successful not only in profession but also in life one should be very active on social media platforms and should write blogs regularly. He gave the example of MS Dhoni how the number 7 is only sufficient for his introduction, everyone knows him. Nikhil Kulkarni further gave his example that since 2004 he is regularly writing blogs. We should use social media like Facebook, Youtube, Twitter  to connect with others for our personal branding.

I enjoyed a lot to have such a great session. Thanks to Mandi sir for providing us great opportunities of learning.