Business Communications

Catalog description

In this course, students review core principles of effective communication such as brevity, getting attention, organization, persuasion, and tone—and apply them to an oral presentation and business documents (mostly involving human capital analytics). They tap into their critical thinking skills to produce compelling and meaningful content tied to business outcomes. Through online conversations, students post concise, well-organized and relevant perspectives to case studies and business communication scenarios related to the readings. They also collaborate with classmates in a final project to develop guidelines for an oral presentation. They learn to work with complex data and other facts, synthesizing this information into concise, coherent and compelling content tied to key HR capital issues such as workforce planning, performance measurement and engagement.