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    Listening Effectiveness

    Analyze your own listening effectiveness; strengths and weaknesses in terms for effective informational listening and effective rational listening. Identify two listening skills you would like to improve and describe how you plan to develop greater competence in each.

    Non-Verbal Communication Elements

    Give an example of each form of nonverbal communication:  haptics, physical appearance, artifacts, environmental factors, proxemics, chronemics, paralanguage, and silence. Describe a personal situation where you had to express a strong emotion, include how you used at least 3 of the nonverbal communication.

    Negative Letter Example

    One part of your company's business (again, the same company in the Case Assignments 1 and 2) is website design and hosting services. Your company values its clients and understands that the recession has affected everyone. But lately you've realized that some clients are sapping your business's already stretched resources. One

    Employee Layoff Communication

    Your company has decided to lay off 10 percent of its workforce to maintain profitability. Although every department has participated in cost-cutting measures, expenses continue to mount, and sales are not where they should be. Your direct supervisor, Shirley Schmidt, has asked you to draft an email that goes to the staff whose

    Employment Email Goodwill and Routine

    Pretend you are a currently employed professional wanting to change careers. Search at an employment website (such as Monster.com, usajobs.gov, etc.) and find a job opening that interests you. Write a generic email, using principles from routine and goodwill emails, to inquire about your desired position. You may ask question

    Gender Speech Communities

    Describe verbal communication between you and a close friend or romantic partner of the other sex. Analyze the extent to which you and the other person follow patterns typical of women and men in general. 350 words and the question does not go towards the word count. Thank you.  

    Perceptions Subjected for Situations

    Perceptions are subjective and are often are not necessarily a best way to understand any given situation. All things considered how does make sure their own perceptions are accurate? Please give examples of how you must take into account physiology, age, culture, self, and cognitive abilities. Present 1 element you feel is

    Rapport With Audiences

    Describe how you would build rapport with your audience in a business presentation. What motivational strategies have you used in the past that were successful or what strategies have you seen speakers use that were effective?

    Team Effectiveness Power Presentations

    Pre-Writing step for a report for your boss on Richard Hackman's statement that using a team to complete a complex project may not be the best approach. Your assignment this week is to continue the 3x3 writing process and complete the report. Continuing your research using the South University Online Library and the Intern

    technology has impacted organizational communication

    In a 250-300 word response, analyze how the use of technology has impacted organizational communication both positively and negatively. How has technology impacted the verbal and nonverbal cues used in interpreting messages? Provide examples to support your position. Use at least one resource to support your key points. APA f

    personal level of intercultural communication competence

    In a 250-300 word response, critically examine your personal level of intercultural communication competence. Is it important for you to achieve a certain level of intercultural communication competence? Would enhanced intercultural communication competence help you personally? Professionally? Academically? Include examples in y

    barriers interfering with the communication

    In a 250-300 word response, identify what techniques you can implement to improve the likelihood that your communications will be received and understood as you intended. Can you identify and reduce the likelihood of barriers interfering with the communication? Give examples. Use at least one resource to support your key poin

    Communication skills in Organization

    250-300 word response, discuss why communication skills are important to organizational success and why recruiters focus so much on finding leads with good communication skills. What happens when there are problems with communications in the workplace (re-work, low morale, product delays, dissatisfied customers, etc.)? Use at l

    Effective Communication Skills

    1.   Describe how communication skills will improve your career prospects and help you succeed in today's challenging digital-age workplace. 2. Discuss strategies that help communicators overcome negative cultural attitudes and prevent miscommunication in today's diverse networked workplace.

    Organizational culture at Brainmass

    Symbols of culture are called artifacts. Artifacts are the most visible and accessible level of culture. These include behaviors, stories, rituals (everyday practices that are repeated frequently), and symbols (e.g., company logos, company colors). For example, the president of a company volunteering at Habitat for Humanity is a

    Communication Skills Assessment Plan

    Communications Skill Assessment Most of us have situations in which we find it difficult to communicate. Improving your written communication skills and being comfortable speaking to people are extremely important. Develop a two- to three-page APA-formatted paper in which you analyze your personal communication skills. Be sur

    Labor Relations and Challenges

    Discuss some employer tactics used to prevent or minimize union membership growth prior to the passage of the National Labor Relations Act in 1935. Which, if any, of these tactics would be lawful today? Why, or why not? Examine the challenges for unions and employers in the modern workplace. Also need references if possible

    Nike Research: Liquidity & Working Capital

    I need help with this section of my research paper. I chose to do the research on Nike Shoes. I have my intro, I am stuck on qualitative analysis section. Please provide any sources so I can do additional research. 3. From the section of the annual report titled(NIKE) Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial C

    Recognizing Talents and Contributions

    One of the greatest resources of any organization is talent from the front line worker through executive leadership. Talent comes in many forms and each team member brings a unique construction of reality. Some talent is obvious; other talent requires cultivation, motivation, and support. Some talent barely performs yet remains

    E-Mails for Business Communications

    Step 1: Read a scenario. Go to Highway Bytes to access the scenario. Step 2: Generate a list of keywords. Use a word processor (like MS Word) to generate a list of keywords that you want your e-mail system to look for. You need to be creative and spend some time with a thesaurus. Identify all the words and word combinations

    Communication Model Business Processes

    Dear Professor, I am in need of assistance and here is an overview of my current dilemma: As CEO of Meta4Labs (hypothetically), I need help crafting a speech or memo to my stakeholders and then outline my change for my communications plan. *** I've included some sample templates that I found that I think might help (see below

    marketing outline promoting brand awareness

    in need of a marketing outline for a nonprofit organization that brings awareness to its brand. The services provided are targeted toward single parent families emphasizing nutrition and education. this nonprofit collaborates with existing providers of services in order to fulfill its mission.

    Motivating Employees Rewards

    You own a small gardening and landscaping business and employ 4 full-time employees and 8 part-time employees who work on a seasonal basis when you need the additional help, especially in the spring and summer months. The part-time workers' salaries are 20 percent higher than the industry average. The full-time employees do o

    fundraising and faith

    (500 hundred words) How has modern fundraising evolved from religious traditions? Explain how the traditional views of the Protestant ( christian) church toward charity compares to fundraising in America today.

    Fundraising Research & Nonprofits

    Why is more research available for fundraising than other areas of nonprofit management? What is the impact on fundraising because of it?

    Take a recent crisis and identify how reporters used hash tags

    Please take a recent crisis and identify how reporters used hash tags (#) to follow, report, or locate a source for a story. What impact have blogs, social networking sites, RSS, and other "new media" formats had on the reporting of a crisis? Based on your research, what advice would you give to an organization, related to soc

    Research material

    I need help in finding academic literature in the following areas: ***Public Administration in Trinidad and Tobago - minimum of at least three pieces of the most recent literature ***Business events management in Trinidad and Tobago - minimum of at least three pieces of the most recent literature ***Should businesses con

    Performance Management Communication at Accounting, Inc.

    Based on Case Study ( Implementing a Performance Management Communication at Accounting, Inc. ), answer the following questions: •After evaluating Accounting, Inc.'s communication plan, does it answer all the questions that a communication plan should answer? •Which questions are left unanswered? •How would you provide

    Negative Professional Communication

    Write 3 short emails. Scenario 1: Your company has decided to lay off 10 percent of its workforce to maintain profitability. Although every department has participated in cost-cutting measures, expenses continue to mount, and sales are not where they should be. Your direct supervisor, Shirley Schmidt, has asked you to draft an

    Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARN)

    Outline the provisions of the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARN) of 1988 stating its rules, liabilities, and loopholes. Discuss the reasons why this act was considered a giant step in protecting both workers and public interest. At least 200 words with references in APA format.