Foundations of Professional Practice

This unit introduces essential workplace skills—mindfulness, time management, foundational project planning, effective communication, and basic negotiation—needed for success in business management. It consolidates personal and interpersonal strategies to prepare students for deeper project execution, leadership, and applied management tasks in subsequent units.

Learning Objectives

• Analyze workplace scenarios to identify at least three mindfulness or time-management interventions and justify their selection based on employee and organizational benefits
• Apply project planning techniques to create a clear scope statement, identify primary audiences/stakeholders, and produce a basic work breakdown structure with an estimated timeline for a simulated project
• Demonstrate effective business communication by composing and editing a professional email and document, organizing meeting agendas, and delivering a 3–5 minute oral summary that applies the laws of emphasis and recency
• Evaluate negotiation and goal-setting strategies by drafting a project vision and two SMART goals, then conducting a negotiation role-play that seeks and documents a win-win outcome