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University of Vermont: How to Improve Communication Skills in a Digital World
How do you rank your communication skills - especially in our increasingly digital world? For some, it has become easier than ever to effectively communicate and engage with friends, peers, and customers. For others, communication now...
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Harvard Business School: Communicating in the Workplace
Today's workplace in very diverse. Investigate tips for communicating more effectively in today's workplaces.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Business Writing Basics
In this slide show tutorial, students will review basics in writing memos in the context of a business setting. The author emphasizes that the purpose, style, format, and organization need attention when writing a memo.
Goodwill
Gcf Global: Business Communication: Instant Messaging Etiquette
Learn about instant messaging etiquitte in the workplace.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Exploring Audience in Persuasive Letter Writing
Effective communication skills are critical for the present century. This unit plan stresses clear, persuasive communication that is meant to be shared with an audience beyond the classroom.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Snail Mail or E Mail Blast!
Students will use business letters and email to recruit professional members for the Career Technical Student Organization (CTSO) using the Chamber of Commerce member listing. This lesson plan is targeted toward Future Business Leaders...
Goodwill
Gcf Global: Google Slides
In this tutorial, learn how to use this free cloud-based program for creating professional presentations.
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Communicating at Work: Five Basic Human Needs
Students will learn about the five basic human needs and how to address them in the workplace through these learning activities. An assessment is included.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Dressing the Part
Dress code requirements in business and school are always a controversial topic. In this project students will research the value of dressing appropriately for a variety of settings to include business and school. They will research...
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The Rules of Success: Small Business Managing People B
Find out some tips and strategies for managing other people in a business setting.
Wisc-Online
Wisc Online: Group Discussion
We will all encounter situations where we need to work with a group of people, whether in class, business, or socially. This slideshow reviews the different types of groups and the roles each person plays in group discussions....
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American Anthropological Association: Economic, Social & Cultural Aspects
This article from the American Anthropological Association suggests that with our advancement in communication technology, culture is a topic of concern. People are virtually connecting from all over the world through the internet and...
Utah Education Network
Uen: Dress for Success
Learners will learn about the different types of attire necessary in a business environment. Interview attire and business casual are included in the content of the lesson.
University of North Carolina
University of North Carolina: What Can I Do With a Major In
Are you looking to explore possible career paths based on a college major? Explore possible career titles, major skills and characteristics, and websites related to your choice of college major.
Better English Lessons
Vocabulary Exercises for English Language Learners
Choose from among a number of exercises designed for advanced English language learners. The menu of exercises, which appears on the right, covers a complete range of topics geared toward building vocabulary used in business-related...
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Designs by Nick Finck: The Why and How of Blogging
Do you want a simple introduction to blogging? This site utilizes large graphics in a step-by-step format to walk you though what a blog is, some examples of blogs, the tools of blogging, the different types of blogs, and related topics.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Pingus Penguins: Writing Good Instructions
Students use the free computer game Pingus to learn how engineers, specifically environmental engineers, use their technical writing skills to give instructions and follow the instructions of others. Students learn to write instructions...
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Banks, Bankers, Banking
This lesson is a simulation of opening a bank. Students are assigned various roles to play within the banking business. Students learn about the role banks play in a market economy.
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Career One Stop: Career and Cluster Videos
Resource offers online career videos in 16 industry areas to learn about the type of work performed in a variety of jobs in each industry area.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Get the Word Out at Mc Donalds!
Students take part in a hypothetical scenario that challenges them to inform customers at a local restaurant of how their use and disposal of plastics relates/contributes to the Great Pacific garbage patch (GPGP). What students...
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Dj Zone: What to Say When Someone Calls
This site gives great tips for answering the phone in the most efficient and polite manner possible. Pretty good overview of basic telephone skills.
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The Center for the Study of Technology and Society
This online magazine offers the latest news and information concerning the relationship between society and available technologies.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Education: Carbons to Computers Fax
The Smithsonian Institution provides the lifeline of the fax machine and of its uses in the business world.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Company Salute
In this lesson students will explore employee/employer issues related to a specific job/company. Students will then design a poster presenting or "saluting" the job/company they researched and share information with the class.