You've been placed in charge of organizing a group of volunteers for a hospital fund-raising drive. You must get some volunteers to agree to go door-to-door asking for donations and others to staff a 2-week social media pledge campaign. Because most of the volunteers are full-time students or working adults, you know this is asking a lot. 

Your task: 

Consider how you can adapt your communication behavior to exercise appropriate forms of power in this context. How could you construct your request in this situation to: Invoke legitimate power: Appeal to referent power: Exercise reward power

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