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Key skill assessment: communication
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This course will be closing on 13 December 2023. You can continue your studies until this time and, once completed, your statement of participation will continue to appear on your OpenLearn profile.
Communication is part of everyone's life. Being able to communicate clearly and effectively orally, visually and in writing underpins nearly everything we do. This free course, Key skill assessment: communication, will help you recognise your strengths as well as the areas where you could improve. In developing and assessing your communication skills, you will learn to recognise, adapt and use your skills confidently and effectively in different situations and contexts.
Course learning outcomes
After studying this course, you should be able to:
- demonstrate a strategy for using communication skills over an extended period of time
- monitor and critically reflect on these communication skills, adapting the strategy as necessary, to produce the quality of outcomes required
- evaluate this overall strategy and present outcomes.
First Published: 10/08/2012
Updated: 07/03/2016
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