Workplace Communication

This course focuses on developing workplace communication skills for students in programs within Ivy Tech’s School of Technology; This course will define characteristics of communication in different workplace contexts, including barriers to effective communication; It will also afford students opportunities to examine and practice strategies for listening critically, building functional interpersonal work relationships, communicating in groups, and enhancing self-expression; Another course focus will be on technology-driven communication channels that are common in the workplace so that students can become effective consumers and providers of information in these channels; By taking a pragmatic approach to understanding human communication, students will increase their workplace as well as their personal communication competence;