CIA Library: Sage Skills: About

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

Sage Skills: Business Modules

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: 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

Sage Skills: Student Success Modules

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