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The Strategic Communicator's Toolkit (Canvas net)

Offered by New Jersey Institute of Technology - NJIT,
The Strategic Communicator's Toolkit (Canvas net)

Today’s professional environment typically fosters important opportunities to communicate and share knowledge with one another on a day to day basis.Having access to advanced media technologies and proven presentation methods can be essential to building a strong and productive team situation. Over these next few weeks, we’ll work together, learning to use cutting-edge communication strategies and tools in order to develop truly dynamic learning environments.

Each week will give us the chance to look at a different media technology, while exploring specific techniques and principles. The entire course will be organized around these core values for building and managing multi-staged projects:

  • Communication
  • Simplicity
  • Leadership
  • Feedback
Note: This course is currently not available.

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