ntroduction

Employers look for both hard skills (knowledge, abilities, skillsets) and soft skills when hiring employees. Soft skills are personal characteristics that demonstrate the ability to work well with others and communicate effectively. This assignment will assist students in identifying and describing their professional communication strengths based on the information provided in Unit 1.

ULOs

Explain the importance of effective communication to your career and to the workplace.

Explain what it means to communicate as a professional in a business context.

Offer guidelines for collaborative communication and explain how to give constructive feedback

Identify three major modes of listening, describe the listening process, and explain the problem of selective listening.

Explain the importance of nonverbal communication, and identify six major categories of nonverbal expression.

Discuss the opportunities and challenges of intercultural communication.

Directions

Using the preceding categories and textbooks sections provided below, identify your professional communication strengths for each category. Prepare a list of four personal attributes for each category. Use the textbook information provided under each category below to guide the development of each attribute. You must put these concepts in your own words and use examples from your professional experiences to help illustrate the summary. Do not use the exact same wording from the text--this is plagiarism. This assignment is about understanding and synthesizing the concepts in the text. Once you have developed a list of four attributes for each category, weave the attributes into a coherent and concise summary for each category. Students will use the paragraphs as a basis for career documents later in the course. When you've finished the assignment, you should have a list of four attributes for each of the four categories along with a summary for each of the four categories. (Four lists, four paragraphs.) Each list of 4 attributes, along with the summary for the category, should look like the example at the bottom. The assignment must be submitted as a Word document. Make sure to review the MG306 RubricsDownload MG306 Rubrics for important information about the required elements and the way the assignment will be scored.

Thinking and Problem-Solving Attributes:

Communicates in an ethical manner

Uses technology tools productively

Demonstrates digital information fluency

Provides content focused feedback constructively

Thinking and Problem-Solving Summary:

I use technology tools productively. My digital information fluency is demonstrated through the effective use of resources to compile information. In a collaborative environment, I provide constructive feedback by focusing on content and outcomes. I believe that effective teaching is comprised of two necessary and related elements: knowledge of the content and ability to communicate it. Knowing the material is not enough to be effective in teaching it; likewise, communication skills won't work alone. Thus, I take care to understand the concepts I expect to cover and to make them understandable to the students.

Due Date

By 11:59p.m., Sunday, CT