Sage Skills EMEA: Business Skills - Sage Skills

Business Skills empowers users to develop and practice real-world skills needed to successfully transition from campus to the modern workplace through interactive self-assessment, virtual scenarios, downloadable data, and expert insights.

This interactive digital resource, with both academic and professional experts, is a library of flexible learning tracks across five in-demand categories. 

Advantages of using Business Skills:

• Develop professional skills relevant across industries and career paths
• Test the efficacy of your leadership tactics and problem-solving techniques
• Challenge your critical thinking skills in real-life business situations
• See how your communication skills support your decisions in modern, diverse workplace scenarios

Watch the above video to get an overview of Sage Skills: Business, then check out the five modules included in the resource below. Each of these modules includes a variety of skills and topics, which are explored in more depth on the About page.

Sage Skills features both academic and practitioner experts in a library of flexible learning tracks across a variety of modules. Supporting a wide range of courses, Sage Skills offers students a self-guided journey to gain the career-ready skill sets essential for professional success.

If you're unsure where to begin your journey, start with the self-assessment feature to identify your current competencies and determine which skills make the most sense to explore first. 

From the Sage Skills: Business or Sage Skills: Student Success homepage, click the Begin Self-Assessment button below the list of the five modules. This will direct you to a page where you will select which module you'd like to begin a self-assessment for.

Once you've selected the module you'd like to start with, you can then choose to take a self-assessment for the entire module or for a specific skill within the module.

Within the self-assessment you will select the button that best describes you for each of the statements listed. The options are: Strongly Like Me, Like Me, Unlike Me, and Strongly Unlike Me. 

You'll also see the ability to download a PDF, share a link to the self-assessment via email, embed, or get a permalink to the self-assessment. 

After you've completed the full assessment, click Submit to View Feedback at the bottom of the page. This will direct you to your self-assessment results, which will show your confidence level as it relates to each of the skills in the module.

You can download your results as a PDF, share them via email, or save them to the Self-Assessments section of your Sage Knowledge profile using the Add to List option. Saving your results to your profile will allow you to access them at any time and will enable you to compare self-assessment results to see your confidence levels grow and change over time. 

Sage Skills: Business includes five modules covering 50+ in-demand business skills through more than 850 topics. Explore the skills contained in each module below. 

Data Analytics
Aeron Zentner, Editor-in-Chief

• Data in the Workplace
• Determining Business Objectives and Planning Data Analytics Projects
• Data Privacy and Governance
• Data Collection Strategies
• Assessing Data Quality
• Cleansing Data
• Demystifying Excel
• Interpreting Business Data
• Qualitative Data Analysis
• Visualizing Data
• Sharing Data Insights
• Data Analytics in Daily Life

Entrepreneurship
Mark Gagnon, Editor-in-Chief

• Entrepreneurial Mindset
• Opportunity Recognition
• Market and Competitor Analysis
• Developing Your Business Model
• Intellectual Property
• Funding Your Business
• Business Structure
• Regulatory Considerations
• Forming Your Team
• Sustainability
• Brand Storytelling
• Sales and Channel Development

Leadership
Corey R. Seemiller, Editor-in-Chief

• Self-Awareness
• Perseverance
• Cultural Competence
• Interpersonal Connections
• Communication
• Groups, Teams, and Organizations
• Ethics
• Strategic Planning
• Creative Problem Solving: A 21st Century Workplace Skill
• Influence

Organizational Communication
Marcel M. Robles, Editor-in-Chief

• Communicating with Stakeholders
• Writing for the Workplace
• Presenting and Speaking
• Communication and Technology
• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Communication
• Sustainability and Ethics in Communication
• Crisis and Strategic Communication
• Personal Selling and Brand Management
• Job Search and interviewing

Professionalism
Barbara A. Ritter, Editor-in-Chief

• Building Healthy Relationships
• Problem Solving
• Ethics and Integrity
• Teamwork
• Building Your Professional Reputation
• Coaching and Mentoring
• Creativity and Innovation
• Career Readiness
• Understanding Bias
• Working Virtually
• Understanding Organizations