Answer the following in a word limit of 200 words each:
Part 1
1. What are some methods you could use to adapt communication to different personalities, cultures, genders, and generations?
2. Discuss the factors that affect responsiveness. Give an example of several responding strategies.
3. Describe successful listening skills and process that can aid communication. How can these skills help you to become an effective leader in your workplace?
4. 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.
Part 2
1. 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).
2. 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.
3. Take the "Where your time goes" inventory . 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.
4. Read Communication Ethics box below and choose two of the four questions to answer.
How does a leader navigate these legally and ethically murky waters?
Do you believe the potential rewards for the office romance outweigh the potential risks?
As a leader would you encourage or discourage these types of relationships?
Would you participate in one?
Part 3
1. 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).
2. 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.
3. 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?
4. 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.