COMM 130 Business and Professional Speaking

1. Exhibit an awareness of the critical importance of effective communication in business and professional environments. 
2. Exhibit communication competence through effective oral and written presentations consistent with modern workplace expectations. 
3. Demonstrate an awareness of the importance of ethical communication within the modern workplace. 
4. Demonstrate an ability to recognize sexual harassment, discriminatory behaviors, and other inappropriate forms of interpersonal communications within the modern workplace. 
5. Prepare, deliver, and evaluate ideas effectively in various professional work environments using available legacy as well as emergent technologies for optimum effect. 

Additional Statewide General Education Outcomes

1. Engage in ethical communication processes that accomplish goals. 
2. Respond to the needs of diverse audiences and contexts. 
3. Build and manage relationships. 

• Introduction to Business and Professional Communication 
  • Importance of communication  
  • Understanding communication as a process  
  • Communication across culture in the work environment 
• Managing Interpersonal Communication in the Workplace  
  • Listening  
  • Verbal and nonverbal communication 
  • Communication across culture in the work environment  
• Sexual Harassment in the Workplace 
• Communication Technology in the Workplace 
• Interviewing 
  • Principles of interviewing  
  • Types of interviews  
• Working in Groups  
• Working in Teams  
• Effective Meetings  
• Creating Effective Presentations  
  • Developing and organizing presentations  
  • Supporting presentations  
• Delivering Business Presentations 
• Types of Business Presentations