Angela Feekery

Effective communication is an essential skill all students need to succeed professionally. Based in theory and informed by practice, Communication Skills for Business Professionals takes readers through a range of basic communication concepts and demonstrates how they can be applied in business settings. The third edition has been restructured into three parts, respectively covering understanding communication, communicating in organisations and professional communication strategies in practice. The text has been updated to examine contemporary topics of increasing relevance, including the effects of AI on communication skills, intercultural competencies in business contexts and how to successfully facilitate virtual meetings in a post-COVID-19 workplace. Each chapter includes short-answer questions, skill-builder activities and margin definitions to cement learning, while the two running case studies provide realistic examples of communication in practice. Communication Skills for Business Professionals remains an indispensable resource for business students wanting to improve their communication skills.

Communication Skills for Business Professionals, second edition, is a student-friendly introduction to effective communication in the workplace. Engagingly written, the text covers foundational topics such as audience, influence, channels, conflict and persuasion, before investigating more complex areas such as intercultural communication, virtual communication, researching in the era of 'fake news' and strategies for successful written communication. Taking a broad and current approach to concepts of communication and workplaces, Communication Skills for Business Professionals explores situations from virtual meetings between indie creatives, to speeches given by politicians, while still covering more traditional forms of professional communication, such as pitching to boards and memos. New pedagogical features such as skill builder class activities, margin definitions and links to online content make this book indispensable for teachers and students of communications alike.