Questions and Topics We Can Help You Answering; 

1. Explain the communication process that occurs in the workplace, and describe how it is similar or different for leaders, manager, and followers

Your response should be at least 75 words in length.

2. Define leadership and communication. Explain how these two relate to one another in the workplace.

Your response should be at least 75 words in length.

Unit III

1. Discuss the factors that affect responsiveness. Give an example of several responding strategies.

Your response should be at least 200 words in length.

2. What are some factors that affect an individual's willingness to communicate? List at least three ways that leaders can work with a low willingness to communicate individual.

Your response should be at least 200 words in length.

3. What are some methods you could use to adapt communication to different personalities, cultures, genders, and generations?

Your response should be at least 200 words in length.

4. List at least three ways leaders can work with people who are less argumentative and people who are highly argumentative to enhance work communication.

Your response should be at least 200 words in length.

Unit IV

1. Read Communication Ethics box (pp. 128) and choose two of the four questions to answer.

Your response should be at least 200 words in length.

2. Take the "Where your time goes" inventory (pp. 384-385). Evaluate your results and write a short essay covering:
Your results.
Discuss any changes you would like to make in allocating your time
Elaborate on how these changes might make you a more effective leader.

Your response should be at least 200 words in length.

3. Read Communication Skills for a Digital Age Box (Pg. 139). After reading the do's and don'ts of Facebook for work, create a list of at least three rules your company would use for Facebook. Also include why these rules are needed.

Your response should be at least 200 words in length.

4. Discuss your conflict style(s) and how they affect your communication in the workplace. Write a short essay explaining what skills for managing emotions and conflict you use as aids when you communicate in the workplace or at home (pp. 133-137).

Your response should be at least 200 words in length.

Unit VI

1. Of the roles listed on pages 211–213, which role or roles do you typically assume in groups, teams, and meetings? Identify two task and two social roles you usually do not assume. Why don't you assume these roles?

Your response should be at least 200 words in length.

2. Identify a team that you are currently participating in, or a team with which you have worked in the past. Identify norms and any explicit ground rules that were developed for the team. Even if the team did not have an explicit mission statement, as you reflect on the team goals and objectives, develop a team mission statement for the team using the guidelines presented in this chapter (pp. 216-217).

Your response should be at least 200 words in length.

3. Develop a meeting agenda for an upcoming meeting. Develop a meeting goal or goals, and identify the sequence of agenda items. After you have written your agenda, write a brief explanation of why you structured your agenda as you did. Use the information on pages 234–236 as a basis for your rationale.

Your response should be at least 200 words in length.

4. Identify all the ways you have communicated, using media or technology, in the past week to collaborate virtually with someone. Identify how the presence of anonymity, physical appearance, distance, and time (see textbook, p. 207) have had an effect on your virtual communication.

Your response should be at least 200 words in length.