Business Communications Certificate

About the Certificate

Business communication is critical to your professional success. From clarifying and structuring your ideas to designing the PowerPoint slides that will best complement them, the techniques, interactive exercises, and checklists in this certificate program will help you create presentations and workplace documents that inform and persuade. This five-course certificate offers instruction on crafting many of the most common business communication formats: memos, reports, brochures, proposals, presentations, catalogs, and websites. Topics include formal and informal outlining techniques, using email appropriately in an organizational setting, and revising for wordiness, unnecessary phrases, redundancy, and jargon.

Courses include:

Communicating Collaboratively
Effective Business Writing
Effective Emails, Memos, and Letters
Effective Presentations
Effective Public Speaking

Professional Development Institute

John P. Gorel, Director, Corporate Relations
570-945-8622

Email: pdi@lixubing.com

Learning outcomes:

Improve your collaborative communication by providing best practices and effective tips and techniques
Recognize the difference between ineffective and effective writing and learn ideas and techniques for all forms of business writing
Improve your use of common business communication vehicles by providing best practices and effective tips and techniques
Learn how to organize, structure, and create effective presentations that feature slides as a visual aid
Develop the skills you’ll need to become an outstanding and confident public speaker
Understand the causes and signs of speaking anxiety and learn practical ways to address speaking fears

Estimated length: 25 hours
Access Time: 365 days
2.5 CEUs | 15 (ISC)² CPEs | 5 HRCIs | 25 PDUs
Delivery: Online
Cost: $299

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