Nonverbal Communication

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?

Examine and demonstrate appropriate responses to key diversity issues in the workplace.

Your boss wants to send a brief email message welcoming employees recently transferred to your department from your Hong Kong branch. They all speak English, but your boss asks you to review his message for clarity. What would you suggest your boss change in the following email message, and why? Would you consider this message to be audience centered? Why or why not? Revise the email so that it follows effective communication guidelines. "I wanted to welcome you ASAP to our little family here in the States. It's high time we shook hands in person and not just across the sea. I'm pleased as punch about getting to know you all, and I for one will do my level best to sell you on America." ... click for more

Critically assess a document and state the strengths and weaknesses.

What are the strengths and weaknesses of this document? I am a new publisher with some really great books to sell. I saw your announcement in Publishers Weekly about the bookseller's show you're having this summer, and I think it's a great idea. Count me in, folks! I would like to get some space to show my books. I thought it would be a neat thing if I could do some live airbrushing on T-shirts to help promote my hot new title, T-Shirt Art. Before I got into publishing, I was an airbrush artist, and I could demonstrate my techniques. I've done hundreds of advertising illustrations and have been a sign painter all my life, so I'll also be promoting my other book, hot off the presses, How t... click for more

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

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

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

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