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Sage Skills: For Faculty & Instructors

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

Discover Sage Skills: Business

Sage assembled a global team of scholars and professionals to create authoritative, engaging content that will improve career readiness for a broad range of students. These experts have carefully selected the skills known to be most critical for the modern workplace. 

Our strong emphasis on diverse, global content and strategic thinking applied to complex issues provides the foundation for transformative research for the next generation of leaders. Sage Skills: Business offers students a customized journey from over 850 business skills topics across five comprehensive modules.

Flexible Learning

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 a full skill module, or learning best practices for a particular skill or specific topic, users map their path to skill mastery via:

  • Interactive scenarios
  • Self-assessments
  • Links to full-text SAGE Journals articles
  • Live data embeds and Excel spreadsheets
  • Downloadable worksheets

Additional Course Materials

Visit Sage College Publishing to find additional course materials that match your teaching and instruction needs.

Hear from the Experts

Hear from experts on topics covered in each of the five Sage Skills: Business modules about what makes these skills necessary for the transition from campus to the workplace. 

Data Analytics

In this short video Aeron Zentner, Dean of Institutional Effectiveness at Coastline College and Editor-in-Chief of the Data Analytics module; Amir Gharehgozli, Assistant Professor at California State University, Northridge; and Tobi West, Professor at Coastline College discuss how data analytics skills can be utilized across industries and across jobs, regardless of role or level.

Entrepreneurship

In this two-minute video Bala Mulloth, Assistant Professor of Public Policy at University of Virginia, discusses what makes a good entrepreneur and why it's important to study entrepreneurship in university.

Leadership

In this three-minute video hear from three leadership experts: Chris Esparza, Director of Diversity, Inclusion, & Leadership Development at University of Oregon; Marcy Shankman, Leadership Coach & Strategist at Cleveland Metropolitan School District; and Joanna Barnes, Dean of the Graduate School at Indiana Wesleyan University about the importance of developing leadership skills.  

Organizational Communication

In this short video hear from Stefanie Boyer, Professor of Marketing at Bryant University; Evelyn Plummer, Associate Professor at Seton Hall University; and Jim Larsgaard, Professor at Eastern Kentucky University on the importance of organizational communication to companies and how to use organizational communication skills to your advantage.  

Professionalism

In this short video hear from Russell Clayton, Instructor at University of South Florida; Trevor Capiccioni, President of Patriot Surgical; and Ken Kuehn, Partner & Founder of CK Solutions on the importance of developing professionalism, emotional intelligence, and resilience.

AACSB Member

AACSB Business Education Alliance Member

Sage is a proud Business Education Alliance Member of AACSB International (AACSB), the world’s most prestigious accreditation body for business schools. Find out more www.aacsb.edu/about

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