Team skills, so important in today's business environment, are often marginal. To ensure its graduates have no such shortcomings, the Daniels College of Business created the Center for Managerial Communication. The Center works with professors and students to refine communication skills within individual and group class projects. For instance, aided by videotapes of their own performances, students practice business presentations. Coaches in the Center teach students how to develop confidence and the ability to present ideas clearly and convincingly.
Coaches are available to help with presentation, report-writing and interpersonal skills.
One has to do with the high tech nature of much of modern communication. High tech generates a corresponding need for interpersonal skills necessary to balance the impersonality of electronic communication. Anderson says second reason for the program is that the college's namesake, Bill Daniels, holds managerial communication skills in high value. Daniels has repeatedly criticized formal management education for its failure to develop the communication skills of its students. Studies have shown that recent business graduates across the country have underdeveloped communication skills.