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PurdueX: Communicating Strategically

Improving communication skills and presentation effectiveness for scientists, engineers, and professionals.
5 weeks
4–6 hours per week
Instructor-paced
Instructor-led on a course schedule
This course is archived
Communicating Strategically

About this course

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Far too frequently, the people who have the most to say have the hardest time saying it. Many of the best minds in our society, our most talented employees and our most promising students, fail to have the impact they could because of ineffective strategies for communicating their ideas and insights to others.

This five-week refresher is geared toward experts (scientists, engineers, and other technical professionals) and will help them effectively communicate with non-scientists, usually management, to inform organizational decision-making.

Join us as we examine and learn the essential components of communication strategy.

At a glance

  • Language: English
  • Video Transcript: English
  • Associated skills:Management, Presentations, Communications

What you'll learn

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  • Review communications skills
    • Though many students learn communications skills early in their academic career, they may have not practiced, or may have forgotten, many useful communications tactics. Additionally, by the time these students begin to develop expertise in specific disciplines and begin working in certain industries, the communication needs become specialized and more challenging.
  • Help experts assess the value of communication and gain confidence in their abilities
    • Some people don't want to communicate. They don't feel it is their job. They want to focus on their own technical areas of expertise. Perhaps they fear it a little because it is not their "area" or they simply dismiss it as unimportant. Either way, such beliefs ultimately become constraints on their own success and run counter to the expectations of others who oversee their work.
  • Help professionals bridge the communication gap
    • Many people often underestimate how hard it is to effectively communicate and think they do a better job than they actually do. After all, their content makes sense to them, and if someone else doesn't understand, it must be their fault.

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