Professional Business Communications

2020 ◽  
pp. 163-188
Author(s):  
Donna M. Velliaris
Keyword(s):  
Communication Skills ◽  
Positive Attitude ◽  
Pilot Project ◽  
Strategic Communication ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Good Work ◽  
Analytical Skills ◽  
Technological Competence ◽  
Professional Business ◽  
Core Course

In today's competitive business environment, students need to build strategic communication skills to effectively manage business activities, and their ability to effectively communicate is central to them gaining and maintaining employment. Attributes considered desirable by employers include a good work ethic, a positive attitude, analytical skills, critical thinking and problem solving, initiative, leadership ability, maturity, self-motivated, teamwork skills, technological competence, and an overall willingness to learn. Significantly, in the associated literature, the ability to communicate well—verbally and in writing—is a quality that consistently appears near or at the ‘top' of the list of desired employability traits. With that in mind, this chapter is largely descriptive and examines the design, delivery, and effectiveness of a 2016 pilot project involving inclusion of Pearson's ‘MyWritingLab' (MWL) into one Australian School of Management's core-course titled ‘Professional Development in Business'.

Communication and Teaching Effectiveness in Industrial Education

1976 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 181-197 ◽  
Author(s):  
Churchill L. Roberts ◽  
Samuel L. Becker
Keyword(s):  
Communication Skills ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Positive Reinforcement ◽  
Positive Attitude ◽  
Teaching Effectiveness ◽  
Delivery Time ◽  
Industrial Education ◽  
Student Evaluations Of Teachers ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
Poor Teaching

The purpose of this study was to gain a better understanding of how communication relates to teaching effectiveness in an Industrial Education setting. Teaching effectiveness was defined in terms of two criteria: supervisor evaluations of teachers and student evaluations of teachers. Results from the study underscored the importance of communication skills in the teaching/learning process. The most important measures were: teacher dynamism, teacher delivery, time spent with the students, positive reinforcement of the students, and positive attitude toward the students. These measures differentiated “good” from “poor” teaching.

Introducing Medical Humanities--Use of Humour for Teaching Ethics

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 30-36
Author(s):  
Ayesha Ahmad ◽  
Tamkin Khan ◽  
Shridhar Dwivedi ◽  
Farah Kausar
Keyword(s):  
Communication Skills ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Medical Humanities ◽  
Medical Curriculum ◽  
Pilot Project ◽  
Medical Schools ◽  
Public Image ◽  
Communication Tool ◽  
Social Commentary ◽  
The Subject

Use of Medical humanities to teach empathy started to come into being nearly 50 years ago. It has been introduced in most of the medical schools in the West for many years. In India the concept is still in its infancy with very few medical schools teaching the subject. This study was undertaken as a pilot project at the Hamdard Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, New Delhi to introduce the concept of empathy through medical humanities to undergraduate students. Students were explained the definition, meaning, scope and purpose of medical humanities. The authors aimed at sensitising the students to the importance of the public image of their profession through humour/jokes. The students were encouraged to discuss and reflect on the reasons for a negative image. The session ended by asking for commitment on their part to behave in a more ethical and professional manner once they start practicing medicine. The session was appreciated by most of the students. Majority agreed that medical humanities was an interesting way to develop empathy in doctors and develop ethical values, professionalism and communication skills. It is imperative that communication skills, professionalism and ethics are integrated into medical curriculum at all stages to inculcate empathy in medical students. Medical humanities modules are an interesting way of achieving this aim. Humour has been used as a pedagogic and communication tool in medicine. Its use for reflection and analysis of a situation or as a tool of social commentary to bring about corrective change can be explored. Further research in the subject is required; curriculum needs to be defined, teachers need to be educated and trained.

Study of Schoolchildren Entrepreneurial Intentions and Activities in Nizhny Novgorod

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 (4) ◽  
pp. 166-186
Author(s):  
Nadezhda Butryumova ◽  
Nadezhda Golubeva
Keyword(s):  
International Research ◽  
Positive Attitude ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Entrepreneurial Intentions ◽  
Entrepreneurial Activity ◽  
Entrepreneurial Skills ◽  
To Receive ◽  
The City

The goal of the paper is to study the entrepreneurial intentions and activities of schoolchildren in Nizhny Novgorod, to identify their needs in developing entrepreneurial skills. The questionnaire is based on the questions of the international research questionnaire GUESSS. For measuring entrepreneurial intentions we used the test of Bass that assesses focus of a person on a task, on communication or on oneself. The questionnaire was distributed to schoolchildren from different schools and districts of the city. On the whole 330 respondents participated in our survey. The results showed that 51% of the schoolchildren think about the career of entrepreneur. The positive attitude towards entrepreneurial activity was identified. Schoolchildren need for in-depth mastering of various skills, obtaining more information about entrepreneurship. Unfortunately, schools rarely provide an opportunity for their schoolchildren to receive knowledge about business environment, to carry out any project activities in order to develop their entrepreneurial ideas.

Successful Internet Entrepreneurs Don't Have To Be College Dropouts

2014 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 53-69
Author(s):  
Sonya Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Market Competition ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Internet Technology ◽  
General Strategy ◽  
Business Programs ◽  
Environment Model ◽  
Elective Course ◽  
College Dropouts ◽  
Core Course

Some of today's most successful Internet entrepreneurs didn't graduate from college. Many young people today followed the same path to pursue their dreams however ended up failing, not a surprise because 80% of the startups fail in first 5 years. As technology innovation and market competition on Internet continue to accelerate, college students need guidance and support more urgently now than ever before. Meanwhile most entrepreneurship programs offered in colleges and universities provide only general strategy-innovation-finance guidance for broad entrepreneurship while lack concentration on online startups or connection to Internet technology. We proposed a technology-business-environment model that could help guide universities in nurturing, building, and shaping their students' dreams and goals towards creating a successful Internet startup business. Finally, we demonstrated a course outline for an Internet entrepreneurship course designed for undergraduate students. Such course can be used as a core course in an entrepreneurship program or an elective course in Information Systems (IS), other sub-disciplines of computing programs, or business programs.

Some Check-List Need to Assess the Communication Skills of Future Doctors?

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. 62-66
Author(s):  
E. Vasil'eva ◽  
M. Tomilova ◽  
S. Yur'eva
Keyword(s):  
Communication Skills ◽  
Main Tool ◽  
Pilot Project ◽  
Standardized Patient ◽  
Check List ◽  
Present Stage ◽  
Medical Graduates ◽  
Stage Of Development ◽  
Subsequent Revision ◽  
Methodological Approaches

The article actualizes the problem of new methodological approaches to assessing the communication skills of future doctors at the present stage of development of medical education. The aim of the study was to test and analyze the checklist to assess the communication skills of medical graduates in the conditions of the all-Russian pilot project. The results of selfevaluation and expert evaluation of communication skills on the basis of the check-list, obtained during the pilot station “Collection of complaints and anamnesis at the primary out-patient doctor’s appointment” in simulated conditions are presented. It is shown that a broad scientific and practical discussion is required to discuss the main tool for measuring the communication skills of future doctors, namely, the checklist, with its subsequent revision, which consists in clarifying the criteria for assessing communication skills, in determining the optimal scale of measurement, in expanding the subjects of evaluation, including the opinion of a standardized patient.

scholarly journals A Study to Assess the Attitude of Medical Students towards Learning Communication Skills in a Teaching Hospital in Kerala

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (38) ◽  
pp. 3317-3321
Author(s):  
V. K. Sreelatha ◽  
V. D. Manjula
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Communication Skills ◽  
Positive Attitude ◽  
Negative Attitude ◽  
Skills Training ◽  
P Value ◽  
Attitude Score ◽  
Medical Council ◽  
Good Doctor ◽  
The Mean

BACKGROUND Communication plays a crucial role in the present era of medical litigations and hospital attacks. A good doctor has to be a good communicator. 80 % of medical errors are due to communication failure as reported in a study. The need for improving the medical communication skills of health professionals is getting recognized. The use of structured programme of effective and formal communication skills training is the need of the hour. In order to improve communication skills, Medical council of India (MCI) has launched the ATECOM (attitude, ethics and communication) module in the MBBS curriculum from 2019. The purpose of this study was to assess the attitude of medical students towards learning communication skills. METHODS A total of 447 students from 7 batches were enrolled in the study. All students were asked to fill up the communication skills attitude scale (CSAS) questionnaire which consists of 13 positive attitude questions and 13 negative attitude questions which was scored in Likert’s scale. The data was analysed using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS). RESULTS There were a total of 447 students, of which 128 were males and 319 were females. The mean total score for positive attitude was 54.19 (SD - 5.99) and the mean score for negative attitude was 33.42 (SD - 5.27). The mean positive attitude score was more for females (54.61; SD - 5.82) than males (53.15; SD - 6.28) and the difference was statistically significant. The female students had a lesser mean negative attitude score compared to males. Batch wise analysis was done using analysis of variance (ANOVA). The P value for total positive score between batches was 0.001 and for total negative score was 0.28. CONCLUSION The study showed an overall positive attitude to learning communication skills with girls showing a more positive attitude and less negative attitude than boys. KEY WORDS Attitude, Communication skills, Medical Students, Competency

scholarly journals Puntos fuertes y débiles en la formación por competencias según los egresados del SENA

Vía Innova ◽  
2015 ◽  
pp. 24
Author(s):  
Jose Alonso Oviedo Monroy
Keyword(s):  
Communication Skills ◽  
Teaching Methods ◽  
Leadership Skills ◽  
Exploratory Analysis ◽  
Foreign Languages ◽  
Traditional Teaching ◽  
Analytical Skills ◽  
Traditional Teaching Methods

The target of the research is descriptive exploratory analysis of the skills that graduates of the SENA considered strengths or weaknesses in their studies. To do the results based on a sample of 161 graduates into twelve areas are described, five of them being statistically significant. The results show that graduates say as strengths of their studies skills related to traditional teaching methods and knowledge, analytical skills and learning and teamwork. By contrast, the skills related to communication skills in foreign languages, and leadership skills are revealed as weaknesses in technological studies.

scholarly journals PENDEKATAN METAKOGNISI SEBAGAI ALTERNATIF PEMBELAJARAN MATEMATIKA

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Euis Anih
Keyword(s):  
Communication Skills ◽  
Positive Attitude ◽  
Mathematics Learning ◽  
Metacognitive Awareness ◽  
Mathematical Communication ◽  
Student Responses ◽  
Learning Mathematics ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
Learning Data ◽  
Better Than

Learning that challenges students to communicate their ideas will make students try to solve the problems they experience in learning mathematics, but the ability of students to communicate and solve problems is very dependent on their awareness of what they know and how to do this. This is related to their metacognitive awareness. Metacognition is the awareness of our thinking so that we can perform specific tasks, and then use this awareness to control what we do. This research was carried out with the aim of: 1) knowing the achievement of students' mathematical communication skills after using the metacognitive approach compared to those using conventional learning, 2) knowing the increase in mathematical communication skills of students who received learning with a metacognition approach and those who received conventional learning, 3) knowing the response students towards learning by using metacognitive learning. Data were collected from students' mathematical communication skills tests in the form of essay questions and student questionnaires. Questionnaires were given to all experimental class students with the aim of knowing students' responses to mathematics learning using metacognition learning. This research is a quasi-experimental study with an experimental class design, namely Pretest-Treatment-Postest, while the control class is Pretest-Postest. From the results of data analysis with a significant level of = 0.05, it shows that the achievement of mathematical communication skills of students who get learning with a metacognitive approach is better than conventional learning. The improvement of mathematical communication skills of students who received mathematics learning with a metacognitive approach was better than the mathematical communication skills of students who received conventional learning. The improvement in mathematical communication skills of students who received mathematics learning with cooperative learning of the TGT type was in the medium category, while students who received conventional learning had an increase in the low category. Based on the results of the analysis of student responses to metacognition learning, it shows that students have a positive attitude towards learning mathematics with a metacognitive approach.

scholarly journals Theatre of the mind: podcasting and public health communication -- a pilot project.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin D. Chochinov
Keyword(s):  
Pilot Project ◽  
Strategic Communication ◽  
Sociocultural Context ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Narrative Self ◽  
Public Health Communication ◽  
The Social ◽  
Health Agencies ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Specific Health

This project explores how podcasting could be developed as a strategy for narrative self-representation as a means of exploring the broader sociocultural context of specific health issues such as HIV I AIDS or methamphetamine addiction. The aim of the project is to understand how podcasting can be used to aid health agencies in determining the social context of behaviors that in turn can inform strategic communication programs.

Computer Aided Development of Phonetic Skills in Non-Vocal Pre-Reading Children

1983 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 39-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joan Bruno ◽  
Joan Goodman
Keyword(s):  
Communication Skills ◽  
Pilot Project ◽  
Handicapped Child ◽  
Vocabulary Test ◽  
Word Generation ◽  
Computer Aided ◽  
Model Treatment ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Treatment Procedures ◽  
Physically Handicapped

Current technology provides new alternatives for developing communication skills in the non-vocal physically handicapped child. The purpose of this pilot project was to determine if pre-reading children could learn to formulate CV (consonant-vowel) and CVC (consonant-vowel-consonant) word combinations through a speech synthesizer. Four children with mental ages between 3 - 0 and 3 – 6, progressed through a sound training program teaching word generation with and without an auditory model. Treatment procedures progressing from production of single phonemes to multisound levels are outlined. Results are described both in terms of progress during treatment sessions and performance on the Expressive One-Word Picture Vocabulary Test.

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