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This guide provides content support for using Sage Skills resources for librarians, faculty, instructors, researchers, and students.

Sage Skills: Business Modules

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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
 

What is Sage Skills: Business?

This short video highlights how SAGE Skills: Business empowers students to develop and practice real-world skills needed to successfully transition from campus to the professional workplace.

SAGE Skills: Business offers flexibility - instructors, students, and alumni can identify personal knowledge gaps and skill sets in need of development. Whether progressing in a linear fashion through full skill module, or learning best practices for a particular skill or specific topic, users map their path to skill mastery via:

  • Interactive scenarios
  • Original videos
  • Consult the experts
  • Links to full text SAGE Journals articles
  • Live data embeds and Excel spreadsheets
  • Downloadable worksheets

What is Sage Skills: Student Success?

Sage Skills: Student Success empowers students to develop and practice the skills needed to thrive at college or university through ten dynamic multimedia modules. Videos, self-assessment, audio summaries, and virtual scenarios provide a flexible, student-guided learning journey.

Making the transition to campus life is exciting and full of new opportunities, yet challenging, both personally and intellectually. Sage Skills: Student Success is a new interactive digital resource featuring the work of a diverse set of academic experts to help undergraduates build confidence and gain essential skillsets for academic and personal success during their time in higher education and beyond.

Supporting a wide range of courses, Sage Skills: Student Success offers engaging content on foundational skills that will help students:

  • Become better critical thinkers, researchers, and writers

  • Communicate more effectively

  • Identify their own biases and enhance intercultural awareness

  • Adjust to the emotional demands of a new environment

Please click here to register interest in learning more about Sage Skills: Student Success.

Hear from the Editors

"Today's workplace is dynamic and ever-changing, calling for an agile, innovative, and collaborative workforce skilled to lead in any context. Developing professional skills can help in enhancing the very skills needed to be able to work together to solve the issues of the 21st century." 

- Corey Seemiller, Leadership Module Editor-in-Chief


"Being a successful student is about completing your work to the best standard you can, while effectively maintaining a focus on your health and wellbeing, time management, money, studies, and personal life." 

- Helen Coleman, Study Skills and Assignments Module Editor-in-Chief

Sage Skills: Student Success Modules

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Sage Skills: Student Success will include ten modules covering 94 foundational skills for academic and personal success through more than 1,100 topics. Explore a selection of the skills that will be contained in each module below.

Academic Integrity and Referencing

  • Avoiding Assignments for Sale
  • Preventing Academic Misconduct with Time Management
  • Collaboration Policies and Academic Integrity
  • Plagiarism

Academic Writing

  • Being a Critical Writer
  • Types of Writing Assignments
  • Writing Coherently
  • Discipline-specific Writing

Communications and Interpersonal Skills

  • Leadership and Negotiation
  • Being Assertive
  • Inclusive Communications
  • Active Listening for a Shared Understanding

Critical Thinking

  • Evaluating Evidence Effectively
  • Thinking Clearly about Information and Technology
  • Fallacies and How to Spot Them
  • Understanding and Overcoming Cognitive Bias 

Data Literacy

  • Evaluating Data Visualizations
  • Inclusion and Exclusion in Data
  • Who Creates Datasets, and Why?
  • A Few Basic Statistical Concepts

Diversity, Bias, and Impacting Change

  • Effecting Change
  • Disrupting Bias in Research and Writing
  • Understanding Historical Impact
  • Considering My Own Social Positioning

Information Literacy

  • Missing and Unheard Voices
  • Understanding Your Role in the Information Environment
  • On the Hunt for Information
  • Scholarship as Conversation

Personal Development and Well-Being

  • Building Your Resilience and Support
  • Making the Most of Your Time
  • Maximizing Your Opportunities
  • Using Technology for Learning

Research Skills

  • Doing Ethical Research
  • Reviewing the Literature
  • Selecting and Developing a Theoretical Framework
  • Designing Your Research Project

Study Strategies and Assignments

  • Giving and Receiving Feedback
  • Reading with Purpose
  • Motivation, Concentration, and Maintaining Focus
  • Planning for Tests and Exams