Business Communications

Now available at your worksite:

A series of practical courses designed to lead managers, supervisors and administrators to being confident and effective writers and communicators in the professional world. The series builds and enhances skills in key areas of communications. Activities include a variety of in-class and out-of-class to produce improved communication in the workplace—letters, memos, reports and summaries.

The business writing program consists of a fifteen-week overview of the foundations of business and administrative writing built on three separate modules and four workshops emphasizing specific skillsets.

Successful Communications at Work
A 15-week course using a problem-solving approach to writing and designed for employees and supervisors. Standard and workplace-specific correspondence, reports, memos, electronic communications, collaborative models of writing, and the basics of oral presentation are covered.

This course has three separate five week modules:

Four workshops, each emphasizing specific skill sets that are critical for a manager’s success at work:

Mastering Report and Complex Writing Situations
A five-week workshop that builds on the Successful Communications at Work course. Examines typical short and long reports written by
supervisors and managers

Mastering Oral Presentations
A five-week workshop that builds on the Successful Communications at Work course. Examines occasions for professional speaking ranging from brief reports at workplace meetings to multifaceted oral presentations for outside audiences using visual materials.

Listening and Communicating as a Professional
A five-week workshop that builds on the Successful Communications at Work course. Focuses on several types of verbal and nonverbal communi-- cation, including paralinguistic and kinesthetic communication, and communications in the context of corporate cultural and international audiences

Critical Thinking, Reading and Evaluation in Business Writing
A five-week workshop that builds on the Successful Communications at Work course. Analysis of logic, purpose, organization, and tone in business communication with the goal of improving critical thinking and evaluation skills in reading and business writing.

Business Communications courses may be tailored to fit the needs of your corporation, public agency or non-for-profit organization.

For further information, contact Jason Vogel at 310-243-3355 jvogel@csudh.edu.