Oral Communication Badge - Kogod School of Business at American University
  • Type Experience
  • Level Foundational
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Oral Communication Badge - Kogod School of Business at American University

Issued by American University

To earn the Education Design Lab’s (EDL) Oral Communication badge the participant has successfully completed one assignment or activity in each of four key areas of business communications. Some tasks are required course assignments; other activities were completed as a ProComms workshop

  • Type Experience
  • Level Foundational
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Skills

Earning Criteria

  • The recipient of this badge has demonstrated critical abilities to:
  • • Listen actively; creating space for speakers to detail concerns while listening with care, asking clarifying questions, and paraphrasing to show understanding;
  • • Speak with clarity; prioritizing main ideas in order to minimize confusion and communicate information to audiences for a variety of business purposes;
  • • Use appropriate tone; discerning not just what words to choose but also what tone to adopt as a necessary business communications superpower to persuade and connect;
  • • Tell stories to express ideas; demonstrating business professionalism in using the elements of storytelling to synthesize data, experts, and research.