Sunday, January 24, 2010

Chapter 2: Mastering Team and Interpersonal Communication













1) Highlight the advantages and disadvantages of working in teams.

Advantages:

  • More information
  • Diversity of views
  • Support for solutions
  • Improved for performance

Disadvantages:

  • Time Issues
  • Groupthink
  • Hidden agendas
  • High costs

2) Identify eight guidelines for successful collaborative writing

  • Select Collaborators
  • Agree on Goals
  • Take Time to Bond
  • Clarify Responsibilities
  • Clarify Processes
  • Avoid Group Writing
  • Ensure Compatibility
  • Check Progress Ofen

3) Explain how meeting technologies can help participants communicate more successfully and describe the emerging role of social networing technologies in business communication.

Writing technologies:

  • Content management systems
  • Wiki sites
  • Groupware
  • Shared workspaces

Resoling team conflict:

  • Proaction
  • Communication
  • Openness
  • Research
  • Flexibility
  • Fair Play
  • Alliance

Newworking technologies

  • Social networks
  • Virtual communities

Productive meeting

  • Preparation
  • Efficiency
  • Technology

Meeting technologies:

  • Virtual teams
  • Virtual meetings
  • Teleconferences
  • Videoconferences
  • Web-based systems

4) Describe the listening process and explain how good listeners overcome barriers at each stage of the process

The listening Process:

  • Receiving
  • Decoding
  • Remembering
  • Evaluating
  • Responding

Barriers to listening:

  • Interruptions
  • Selective listening
  • Selective Perception
  • Language or Experience
  • Memory Problems

5) Clarify the importance of nonverbal communication and briefly describe six categories of nonverbal expression.

  • Facial expressions
  • Gesture and posture
  • Vocal characteristics
  • Personal appearance
  • Touching behavior
  • Time and space

6) Discuss the importance of business etiquette.

  • Workplace
  • Social settings
  • Online

Interesting Links:

http://books.google.com/books?id=v_fiV9666W8C&printsec=frontcover&dq=business+etiquette&source=bl&ots=crk6MtMDh-&sig=Dfn5jDfriCyb91gKbwYQlQ8S7EQ&hl=en&ei=702ZS8b5CIOXtgf1tYWxCQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CBgQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=&f=false

From this web, we can learn 101 ways of business etiquette.


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