MBA level

It is suggested that listening may be the most important skill needed in American corporation offices. Do you agree? Why are most business managers less than effective in their skills? Any idea! Few reseach web page would help as help as well.

Business Communications

How can nonverbal communication help you run a meeting? How can it help you call a meeting to order, emphasize important topics, show approval, express reservations, regulate the flow of conversation, and invite a colleague to continue with a comment?

Letters / Memos

If you must persuade your audience to take some action, aren't you being manipulative and unethical?

Communicating

You submitted what you thought was a masterful report to your boss over three weeks ago. The report analyzes current department productivity and recommends several steps that you think will improve employee output without increasing individual workloads. "Brilliant," you thought. But you haven't heard a word from your boss. Did you overstep your boundaries by making recommendations that might imply that she has not been doing a good job? Did you overwhelm her with your ideas? You'd like some feedback. In your last email to her, you asked if she had read your report. So far, you've received no reply. Then yesterday, you overheard the company vice president talk about some productivity cha... click for more

Communication

If e-mail, since it is so fast and convenient, should replace meetings and other face-to-face communication in a company? Why or why not?