THE INSTITUTE OF CHARTRED ACCOUNTANTS OF INDIA

INTEGRATED COURSE ON INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND SOFT SKILLS –

ORIENTATION COURSE
BY
AVANISH SINGH
Friends And Relationship
Who Are Friends ?
What Is Friendship ?
Friendship

• Friendship, is the strange thing, We find ourselves telling

our secrets, feelings and the details of our life to the person
we met accidentally.
• We usually don’t tell these things to our family members but
we share something's with our friends
• But sometimes we make friendship with our (Parents or
siblings) and share all the details of life with him or her.
What is Relationship?
Relationship

The easiest way of explaining this is;

• Friendship is a relationship
• Relationship between two people
• Communication, sharing details of life and talking informally
• All these things creates a relationship
• Which is called

Friendship
Pillars Of Friendship
Pillars Of Friendship

Mutual Caring Shared Activity

Pillars Of
Friendship
 Pillars Of Friendship

• Mutual Caring:
is that the friends each care about the other, and do so for her sake; in
effect, this is to say that the friends must each love the other.

• Shared Activity Or Feelings:

When you engage in certain kind of activity with the person you call
your friend.
Nature of Friendship
Nature of Friendship

Friendship essentially involves a

distinctive kind of concern for
your friend.

What kind of
Concern that be ?
Nature of Friendship

• Kindness
• Care
• Have someone to share details of life.
• Love (Could be the love which we possess for our parents
as a friend)
• To have a Fulfilled, Same attitude and caring attitude person
for yourself

What o you want to add

in it ?
Stages Of Development
Nature of Friendship

• Friendships grow in time from one stage to another, until

two people become closer and closer.

There are 6 Stages Of

Development
Acquaintance
Best
Friends
Mentor Friend Good Friend
Online Friend
Stages Of Development

Acquaintance:
An acquaintance is often called someone you "know in
passing" and means that you may see and interact with the
individual on an occasional or even regular basis

Mentor:
Mentors are people who share their knowledge and experience with
us. They could be our friends or our teachers who are often friendly.
Stages Of Development

Online Friend:
Online friends, or people that you know solely through the Internet in some
way (forums, Facebook, Twitter, etc.) can enhance your life in many
ways. Online friends can feel as if they are "always there" because you
interact with them through the Internet

Friend:
Someone who you have a personal relationship with (you've spend
time together and bonded) can be considered a friend.
Stages Of Development

Good Friend:
A good friend is someone you would consider part of your inner circle.
These are people who know the most about your life.

Best Friend:
Best friends can be referred to as BFFs, buddies, or even "besties."
These are people who you are very close to, and who you spend a
great deal of time with. They are the first person you call when
you're excited, hurt, or just want to chat.
Culture and friendship
Culture and friendship

Does Culture really effects your

friendship and relationship ?

If Yes How?
If No How?
Culture and friendship

Multiculturalism
“Different people from different cultures.”
 Culture and friendship

•The main advantage of having friends from different ethnic

backgrounds and cultures is that it promotes multiculturalism
within individuals.

•It teaches one to accept differences and to build an

understanding that no religion or culture is better than the
other but that each has its unique features.

•We grow up learning about our culture and the practices that
are specific to that culture and make friends.
 Culture and friendship

•It is only when we make friends with people from different

cultural backgrounds that we learn about the other cultures and
the specific practices.

And lastly, It builds up our

Interpersonal skills.
Gender And Friendship
Gender And Friendship

Is really genders matter

while making friends ?

Yes!
It differs culture to culture.
Gender And Friendship

There are three types of

friends

Boys and Girls

Boys (Same Gender)
(Opposite Gender)
Girls (Same Gender)
Gender And Friendship

In our culture Females

are rarely make some
Male friends.

Why ?
Gender And Friendship

Why European Females

are more likely to have
a Male friends ?

Why ?
Gender And Friendship

“It’s just because of

Culture differences.”

And we have to overcome

this obstacle
Gender And Friendship

What do you think how

we can overcome this
obstacle ?
By introducing
Multiculturalism.
 Gender And Friendship

Multiculturalism is not about adopting

different cultures its also about the rules
and regulations between opposite
•Defines how to behave with someone, specially with opposite gender.
•Circle differences
•And being an extrovert (Actually, Extroversion is a rule of
interpersonal skills) to communicate with people and tell them how you
think about them.
Thank You