Communication Methods
Company Socials -- Socials and parties are an excellent way for colleagues to net work and get acquainted on a more personal level. Socials provide a time for people to share some recreational activities and have positive reflection on the jobs that they do together. Social activities can help team become closer and foster a strong sense of teamwork. Socials have drawbacks because a social activity isn't always the best time to discuss issues or problems at work, and co-workers that do have any serious issues or concerns may find it hard to avoid serous discussions during social activities.

Presentations and Speeches -- Presentations and speeches are an excellent way to introduce new concepts, ideas or plans to a large group. These are also excellent opportunities to share company news and progress. The drawback can be that any kind of personal or sensitive news may be hard to deliver through…...

Communication
Apply appropriate communication methods and behaviors in an organizational setting

The most appropriate methods of communication and behaviors in any organizational setting are to use transitional leadership techniques. This is when there is open communication about any kind of issues and solutions for dealing with key problems. At the heart of this focus, is using different strategies that will reach out to employees and managers. This involves actively listening to what they have to say. Then, implementing them as a part of the basic strategy for dealing with any kind of challenges they will face. ("Dr. Judith Wright on Transformational Leadership," 2012)

As a result, the behaviors that should be embraced are one of transparency, cooperation and supporting everyone inside the organization. This is when there is a focus on ensuring that everybody feels a part of the team and is willing to do more in reaching its long-term objectives. If this…...

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References

Create Effective Relationships through Effective and Open Communication. (2013). You Tube. Retrieved from:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_qhaBdjh3o 

Dr. Judith Wright on Transformational Leadership. (2012). You Tube. Retrieved from:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8RC7HXSNGQ 

What is Organizational Communication. (2013). You Tube. Retrieved from:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5oXygLGMuY 

Hackman, M. (2013). Leadership. Long Grove, IL: Waveland Press.

One of your employees is constantly late, leaving food and drinks at the work station, and you are forced to address the situation The above issue would be addressed via direct communication. When doing so, the staff member in question would preferably be got in touch with at the work station in order to share the company’s concern. This choice of setting ensures a friendly, positive atmosphere is created. Speaking with the staff member at a supervisor’s or manager’s office would intimidate the individual and convey a negative mood. Direct communication represents an informal mode of verbal communication undertaken for the purpose of free interchange of opinions and fair weighing of one another (Adler, Elmhorst & Lucas, 2012). Consequently, the worker in question can offer a verified response and demonstrate adherence to the scenario. This communication mode works well for the aforementioned scenario as it encompasses the elements of encouragement, leadership,…...

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References

Adler, R., Elmhorst, J. M., & Lucas, K. (2012). Communicating at work: Principles and practices for business and the professions. McGraw-Hill Higher Education.

DiSanza, J. R., & Legge, N. J. (2016). Business and professional communication: Plans, processes, and performance. Pearson.

Stuart, B. E., Sarow, M. S., & Stuart, L. (2007). Integrated business communication: In a global Marketplace. John Wiley & Sons.

 

Communication
Personal Account upon Communication

Communication is an everyday necessity that is additionally a challenging endeavor. Though most everyone engages in communication, very few people are effective communicators. In reflecting on my on communication skills, I understand the necessity of adapting some of my communication methods to meet another individual's communications needs, wishes, and preferences. In a nursing home, I have had to speak louder or slower than my usual communications with others. I have also had to explain something repeatedly or in several ways because of some of the health conditions of the residents in the facility.

When it is evident that I am having problems in communication, I seek advice about it. I also seek advice about communication when I am about to enter into a new situation, such as beginning college, graduate school, a new job, or a new type of job environment, such as the corporate world and the…...

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References:

Colon-Emeric, C.S., Ammarell, N., Bailey, D., Corazzini, K., Lekan-Rutledge, D., Piven, M.L., Utley-Smith, Q., & Anderson, R.A. Patterns of Medical and Nursing Staff Communication in Nursing Homes: Implications and Insights From Complexity Science. Qualitative Health Research, 16(2), 173 -- 188, 2006.

Pillember, PhD, K., Suitor, PhD, J., Henderson, Jr., C.R., Meador, R., Schultz, L., Robison, PhD, J., & Hegeman, C. A Cooperative Communication Intervention for Nursing Home Staff and Family Members of Residents. The Gerontologist, 43, Special Issue II, 96 -- 106. 2003.

Communication
TANSACTIONAL ANALYSIS MODEL

Communication plays an extremely important role in the success of any organizational culture. How employees and management communicate with and respond to each other is what determines the level and type of communication that exists in the organization. In this connection, Transactional Analysis Model can help in identification of problems/conflicts that exist in communication method and offer useful suggestions. In short TA model can be effectively used to understand and analyze behavior of different organizational members. Transactional analysis Model was developed by Dr. Eric Berne MD in 1960s and it ruled the world of communication theories during the next two decades. It is still used widely to remove communication blocks. Transactional Analysis Model works on two important concepts: a) every person has three sides to his personality and b) when two people communication, one of these sides is evoked leading to a transaction.

It is important to understand what…...

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References

James, Muriel: Transactional Analysis for Moms and Dads. Addison-Wesley. Reading, 1974

Laurel J. Dunn Communication: Information Conveyed Through The Use Of Body Language, Department Of Psychology, Missouri Western State College, 1999

Communication in organizations includes all the means, both formal and informal, by which information is passed up, down, and across the network of managers and workers in a business. These various types of communication may be used to distribute official information between workers and management, to trade hearsay and rumors, or anything in between. The dispute for businesses is to control these countless communications so they serve to advance customer relations, encourage employee satisfaction, build knowledge-sharing all through the organization, and most significantly, improve the firm's competitiveness (Communication in Organizations, 2012).
Communication is one of the most prevailing and important activities in organizations. Basically, relationships grow out of communication, and the functioning and survival of organizations is based on effectual relationships amid individuals and groups. Additionally organizational capabilities are developed and carried out through intensely social and communicative processes. Communication helps people and groups manage activities to attain goals, and it's…...

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References

Aul, P. & Siira, K. (2010). Organizational Communication and Conflict Management

Systems. Nordicom Review, 31(1), p. 125-141.

Berger, B.K. (2008). Employee/Organizational Communications. Retrieved from  http://www.instituteforpr.org/topics/employee-organizational-communications/ 

Boesky, J. (2011). Active Listening. Retreived from  http://www.johnboesky.com/activelistening.php

Communication
Electronic communication has become one of the most important methods for people to communicate with one another in recent years. Spielberg (1999) noted that patients have sought to utilize electronic communication with their physicians. In the past, he argued, a variety of exchanges were utilized, including in-person visits, telephone, pagers and voicemail, so it was only natural that communication between patients and those within the medical profession would be extended to the realm of electronic communication. Thus, the market has driven the need for health care organizations to begin to explore how they can use electronic communication methods such as email, the Internet, online chats or even SMS messaging to bridge the communication gap with their patients. hile the market may demand new methods of communication be developed, there are risks inherent to the medical profession that present challenges or obstacles to facilitating the market-demanded electronic communication methods.

The Issues

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Works Cited:

Spielberg, A. (1999). Online without a net: Physician-patient communication by electronic mail. American Journal of Law & Medicine. Vol. 15 (1999) 267-295.

Hassol, A.; Walker, J.; Kidder, D.; Rokita, K.; Young, D.; Pierdon, S.; Deitz, D.; Kuck, S. & Ortiz, E. (2004). Patient experiences and attitudes about access to a patient electronic health care record and linked web messaging. Journal of the American Medical Information Association. Vol. 11 (6) 505-513.

Winkelman, W.; Leonard, K. & Kossos, P. (2005). Patient-perceived usefulness of electronic medical records: Employing grounded theory in the development of information and communication technologies for use by patients living with chronic illness. Journal of American Medical Information Association. Vol. 12 (3) 306-314.

Wager, K.A., Lee, F.W., & Glaser, J.P. (2009). Health care information systems: A practical approach for health care management (2nd ed.). San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.

B: No you didn't.

A: You just weren't listening.

Nonviolent Communication:

A. The trash still has not been taken out. Would you like to do that?

B. Oh, uh, no but I will if you want me to.

A: Thank you

Prompt (2) Stereotypes:

Stereotyping comes from a deeply rooted survival mechanism for self-protection that helps us to identify friends from foe. It is based in the synthesis of sensory awareness. There are three sub-process of perception that help us to understand what our senses are telling us.

The three sub-processes of perception include subliminal perception, external attention factors, and interpretation.

Impressions lead to an implicit personality theory. Describe.

We develop an implicit personality theory by generalizing about certain traits, or assuming that the presence of one trait necessitates the presence of another trait.

Stereotyping leads to totalizing. Describe Stereotyping leads to totalizing, or the act of blurring out any individual or specific traits. Instead of perceiving the other person as…...

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Reference

Center for Nonviolent Communications. "Founder." Retrieved online:  http://www.cnvc.org/about/marshall-rosenberg.html

In both of these instances, the teacher could have shown more sensitivity to the parents, since their roles as teachers are to educate not just the student, but their families as well, especially in low income situation (Epstein, 2001). Even in the instance of the teacher providing the parents with written information, the teacher is assuming that all parents are literate, when that is not always the case, therefore the teacher is not being sensitive to particular circumstances (Mendoza, 2003).
The role of a parent in a child's education is to be as supportive as possible in assuring that the child could attain a decent education. Their role is not necessarily to be the ones doing the teaching, but to be the ones supporting while the children are getting taught (Epstein, 2001). But that is not always the case, and some teachers do not allow for that to happen or…...

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References:

Mendoza, J. (2003). Communicating with parents. Clearinghouse on early education and parenting. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champion. Retrieved May 20, 2011, from http://ceep/crc.uiuc.edu/eecearchive/digests/2003/mendoza03.html.

Epstein, J.L. (2001). School, family, and community partnerships. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.

More specifically, because the potential for miscommunication, misunderstanding, and pejorative or other negative interpretations is so much greater in remote communications especially through email (SHM, 2010), the implications of failure to establish trust remotely are even greater. As Yoong (2009) points out, that is largely a function of the fact that genuineness in expressions of cultural awareness and sensitivity (as opposed to patronizing or otherwise insincere) expressions is absolutely crucial.
Sincerity and genuineness are much more difficult to communicate effectively in impersonal communications media (SHM, 2010; Yoong, 2009). Therefore, appropriate expressions and other manifestations of cultural awareness and sensitivity are most appropriately communicated to virtual working groups via two-way video conferencing instead of other less personal methods of communications, notwithstanding the substantive sufficiency or factual accuracy of those expressions in writing, for example (SHM, 2010;Yoong, 2009).

esearch Design

This project relies primarily on a review of secondary research in the form of…...

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References

Douglas, C. And Zivnuska, S. "Developing trust in leaders: an antecedent of firm performance." SAM Advanced Management Journal. Society for the Advancement of Management. 2008. Retrieved December 30, 2010 from HighBeam Research:  http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-177101798.html 

George, J.M. And Jones G.R. (2008). Understanding and Managing Organizational

Behavior. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.

Maxwell, J.C. (2007). The 21 Irrefutable Rules of Leadership. Georgia: Maxwell

Skilss in Interpersonal, Group and Organizational Communications
The objective of this study is to examine interpersonal communication and spoken skills. This work will examine communication skills using the theories of Pragmatic Perspective, Psychological Perspective, Social Constructionist, and social responsibility theory. Trenholm (2008) states that communication "is very important to everyone. One form of communication that occurs among individuals is known as interpersonal communication. Interpersonal communication is a term "reserved for two-person, face-to-face interaction and is often used interchangeably with the term dyadic communication."

Interpersonal Communication: Speaking and Listening Skills

Interpersonal communication can be understood as the interaction that takes place between individuals and concerns the deliver and receipt of information or a message. Involved in interpersonal communication are listening as well as nonverbal forms of communication and speaking. Listening is the capacity to both understand and provide appropriate response to what others are saying. Listening requires the evaluation of what is being…...

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Bibliography

Pearce, WB (nd) Communication and Social Construction: Claiming our Birthright. pp. 33-56 in Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz and Gloria Galanes (Eds). Socially Constructing Communication. Cresskill, N.J.: Hampton Press. 2009.

Ramaraju, S. (nd) Psychological Perspective: Interpersonal Communication. Journal of Arts, Science and Commerce. Retrieved from:  http://www.researchersworld.com/vol3/issue4/vol3_issue4_2/Paper_09.pdf 

Suresh, K. (nd) Theories of Communication CHAPTER 2: Retrieved from:  http://www.peoi.org/Courses/Coursesch/mass/mass2.html 

Tips for Communication Skills with Groups. About Leaders. Retrieved from:  http://www.aboutleaders.com/tips-for-communication-skills-with-groups/

communication during a disaster is essential to controlling and mitigating the damage of the disaster and reaching victims in a timely manner. hether the disaster is a brush fire, mudslide, or earthquake, disaster authorities must have the ability to communicate at a moment's notice without any interruptions or difficulties. This module will further discuss the need to implement proper communications and offer suggestions as to communication setup.
At the onset of a disaster, there must an alternative communications program set up. hile the program may not actually be utilized until a disaster, it should remain available and be tested regularly as part of emergency drills. There are two key components to a proper emergency alternative communication network. The first is information transfer. Often during an emergency, concerned citizens tie up the internet attempting to contact family. For this reason, a separate governmental internet server should be established to ensure the…...

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Works Cited

Davidson, Denise. San Diego County's Major Fires. U~T. October 23, 2005. Online at  http://www.utsandiego.com/uniontrib/20051023/news_1m23worst.html 

Fujiwara T, Iida N, Watanabe T. A hybrid wireless network enhanced with multihopping for emergency communications. Communications, 7:4177-4181.

Geographic Information Systems. USGS. Online at  http://egsc.usgs.gov/isb/pubs/gis_poster/

family counseling requires a broad and diverse set of tools and techniques. Those tools and techniques should be adaptable to suit the needs of each family, individuals within that family, and also the contextual or environmental variables that impact families. Using a wide range of exercises and interventions, therapists can provide effective and evidence-based practice, as well as offer ongoing assessments and maintenance.
Techniques and exercises that may be particularly useful for families and couples include the oyal Flush exercise for families with young children, the family-based school interventions for children with behavioral or academic performance problems, and the "altering the abyss" exercise for couples. Each of these exercises is rooted in fundamental family practice theory, and each can also yield measurable outcomes that improve the efficacy of the treatment.

oyal Flush

The "royal flush" technique is named as such because it uses picture cards, similar to those used in card games.…...

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References

American Psychological Association (2015). Managing stress for a healthy family. Retrieved online: http://www.apa.org/helpcenter/managing-stress.aspx

Brimhall, A.S. & Gardner, B.C. (n.d.). Altering the abyss.

Friedman, B.D. & Allen, K.N. (n.d.). Systems theory. Retrieved online:  http://www.sagepub.com/sites/default/files/upm-binaries/32947_Chapter1.pdf 

Gergen, K.J. (1985). The social constructionist movement in modern psychology. American Psychologist 40(3): 266-275.

Telecommuting is the act of periodically working out of the main office, one or more days a week either at home, or at a telework center. (Avery and Zabel 2000, 82) The concept of telecommuting was created by Jack Niles as a result of the oil crisis of the 1970's. Niles felt that telecommuting would be a good way of eliminating the daily commute and preserving energy. Nile eventually found that telecommuting could be beneficial to workers and employees.
The research found that the benefits of telecommuting include increased productivity, improved familial relationships and decreases in absenteeism. Increased productivity is derivative of the fact that workers have fewer distractions and are able to complete tasks on their own time. We also found that telecommuters had increased job satisfaction and increased motivation.

A major hindrance to the implementation of a successful telecommuting strategy is the lack of effective communication technology. In addition, much…...

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Avery C. And Zabel D. (2000) The Flexible Workplace: A Sourcebook of Information and Research. Quorum Books: Westport, CT.

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Burn, T. (2000, January 31). Telecommuting Fits Right at Home. The Washington Times, p. 10.

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Communication Methods
Scenario #1 "One of your employees is constantly late, leaving food and drinks at the work station, and you are forced to address the situation" is best addressed with face-to-face communication. In this method, a conversation will occur, but first the issue will be presented to the employee in question. This will require the manager to speak directly. In this case, habitual lateness negates the need to address specific circumstances; everybody is late once in a while but habitual lateness is unacceptable according to company policy.

Manager: "Good morning, Jones. Please, take a seat."

Jones: "What's up?"

Manager: "I'm issuing you a verbal warning for your lateness. You were late again yesterday. Our records show you as being late 23 times since the start of the fiscal year. Employees are expected to be at their workstations promptly at 9am, and you have continually failed to do this. You do good work, Jones,…...

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1. The importance of early detection and intervention for children with speech impairments affecting multisyllabic words
2. An overview of current intervention strategies for children with speech impairments in multisyllabic word production
3. The role of speech-language pathologists in implementing effective multisyllable intervention strategies
4. The impact of individualized therapy plans on the progress of children with speech impairments in multisyllabic word production
5. The use of technology and alternative communication methods in multisyllable intervention for individuals with speech impairments
6. The effectiveness of incorporating phonological awareness activities in multisyllable intervention for individuals with speech impairments
7. Common challenges faced by children with speech impairments in....

1. Develop a comprehensive mudslide preparedness plan: Communities should work with local authorities, emergency responders, and community leaders to develop a plan that outlines how to prepare for and respond to mudslides. This plan should include information on potential risk areas, evacuation routes, emergency shelters, and communication strategies.

2. Educate residents about mudslide risks: Communities should educate residents about the risks of mudslides and how to prepare for them. This includes providing information on how to recognize warning signs, evacuation procedures, and safety tips.

3. Identify and mitigate risk areas: Communities should identify areas that are prone to mudslides, such as steep....

Technology has had a profound impact on the evolution of transportation and communication methods.

In terms of transportation, advancements in technology have led to the development of faster, more efficient modes of travel, such as cars, airplanes, and high-speed trains. These advancements have made it easier for people to travel long distances in shorter amounts of time, which has in turn facilitated global trade and cultural exchange. Additionally, technology has enabled the development of more sustainable forms of transportation, such as electric and hybrid vehicles, which help reduce carbon emissions and combat climate change.

On the communication front, technology has revolutionized....