This document outlines topics that will be covered in a course on effective oral communication in the workplace. The course will discuss maintaining communication through open and closed questions, clarification, and the PAC system. It will also cover accommodating socio-cultural sensitivities such as communicating within different cultures, body language, and respect. Finally, the course will discuss linguistic structures like vocabulary, suffixes, prefixes, borrowed words, acronyms, idioms, and technical terminology that can help shape and decode meaning.