How professional messages get written, spoken and shown
Business communication is the set of written, spoken and visual habits that decide whether a message at work does its job: emails and messages, routine and difficult replies, persuasive asks, research-backed reports and proposals, presentations with their slides, and the whole exchange around a job search. We take the standard university textbook for this course and rebuild it as short, self-contained pieces: each one solves a single situation, shows the approach with examples, and stops. Work through them and you can write to a colleague, a client or a committee, put a case together that others act on, and stand up and present it.
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What communication is worth at work, how a message travels, and how to work with teams and cultures.
What communication is worth at work, how a message travels, and how to work with teams and cultures.
The three-step writing process, from analysing the situation to proofreading and sending.
The three-step writing process, from analysing the situation to proofreading and sending.
Email, messaging, web copy and podcasts, social platforms, and the visuals that carry data.
Email, messaging, web copy and podcasts, social platforms, and the visuals that carry data.
Routine requests and replies, the two routes through bad news, and persuasion that keeps trust.
Routine requests and replies, the two routes through bad news, and persuasion that keeps trust.
Finding and judging information, then planning, drafting and finishing documents that decide things.
Finding and judging information, then planning, drafting and finishing documents that decide things.
Planning and delivering a talk, and the slides, handouts and visuals that support it.
Planning and delivering a talk, and the slides, handouts and visuals that support it.
Finding roles, writing a résumé that survives screening, and every message around an interview.
Finding roles, writing a résumé that survives screening, and every message around an interview.
“A working manual for messages that have to land the first time.”
This collection keeps the full scope of a serious business communication course but strips the semester-shaped padding around it. Its strongest feature is refusal to separate writing from speaking and showing: the same audience logic runs through an email, a report and a slide deck.
Nano College takes the standard university textbook for a course and turns it into short, self-contained pieces you can actually finish. We keep the ground the textbook covers and the rigour it insists on; what we leave out is the padding that only exists to fill a semester.