This course provides an overview of the key elements of a traditional MBA to help you improve your business writing, presentation, social media, and professional networking skills.
Learning Objectives
- Learning Outcomes
- This course will prepare you to:
- Identify different methods in dealing with change
- Recognize the importance for continuously evolving
- Contrast the differences between imposed and designed change
- Identify how to get employees to buy into change
- Describe Kotter’s 8 Step Change Model
Major Topics
Social networks; Professional Networks; Clique versus entrepreneurial networks; Types of Influential People; Building Your Network; Following-up with new clients; Characteristics, Strengths, and Weaknesses of Personality Styles; Connecting with Personality Styles; Audience Demographics; The importance of scheduling time and environment; Types of listening; Levels of listening; Listening to respond; Introverts and Extroverts; Listening bias; Body language; Using visualization; Practice is essential; Positive energy; Slide count calculation; A speech versus an experience; Fear of questions; Know your audience; Communication styles; Turn off the adrenaline; The power of a pause; Presentation Tips; The importance of audience demographics; Winning the trust of your audience; Providing context with your numbers; Tables and charts; Formatting words for readability; Making your point; Active versus passive writing; Choosing words for understandability; Using emoticons and punctuation; Bad writing examples
