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2.  COM 537 Week 1 Individual Assignment Integrated Diffusion Paper  COM 537 Week 1 DQ 1  COM 537 Week 1 DQ 2  COM 537 Week 2 Individual Assignment Communication Styles and the Business Communication Process  COM 537 Week 2 Team Assignment Weekly Reflection  COM 537 Week 2 DQ 1  COM 537 Week 2 DQ 2  COM 537 Week 3 Individual Assignment Internal and External Stakeholders  COM 537 Week 3 Team Assignment Weekly Reflection  COM 537 Week 3 DQ 1  COM 537 Week 3 DQ 2

3.  What communication type avoids conflict and focuses on facts and details rather than the big picture? They may be perceived by others as unemotional and nonchalant. Argumentatives Sympathetics Systematics Directs A criticism of social media is that it is only available to the media savvy. contributes to the decline in writing and language skills. leads to separation of the haves and have-nots. leads to information overload In Korean culture, a business deal is dependent on contractual information as well as how the parties perceive each other’s values and ethics.

4.  Reflect on an experience when you misunderstood a set of directions, a procedure, or an assigned task. What element in the transactional communication model went wrong?

5.  Think of a message you recently communicated. How does framing a message affect the communication process?

6.  Individual Integrated Diffusion Paper  Resources: In the Action Plan section at the end of Chapter one in the Integrated Business Communication text, there is a discussion that revolves around the significance of innovation versus ideas from an article by Michael Schrage titled “Innovation Diffusion”. The article can be found at the website below.  http://www.technologyreview.com/energy/13987/ http://www.technologyreview.com/energy/13987/  Review the article.  Write a paper of no more than 700 words that discusses the difference between ideas and innovation and specifically answers the question;  Is the “diffusion of innovation” or the "spread of ideas" the dynamic driving today's world?  Defend your answer.

7.  How do culture and the audience members’ listening agenda or motives affect how a message is framed? Provide specific examples.   Select an organization with which you are familiar. If you were a consultant for this organization, how would you identify the internal and external stakeholders?

8.  Individual Internal and External Stakeholders  Resource: Best Game Productions: Company Background and Business Scenario  Analyzethe information provided to you in the Best Game Productions: Company Background and Business Scenario document.  Write a paper of no more than 1,450 words in which you complete the following:  Explain the business scenario faced by Best Game Productions.  Identify the organization’s internal and external stakeholders.  Explain how the business scenario at Best Game Productions affects multiple internal and external stakeholders.

9.  Individual Communication Styles and the Business Communication Process  Consider a recent interpersonal conversation you had in a business setting.  Write a paper of no more than 1,050 words in which you complete the following:  Discuss the content of the conversation. What was communicated in the conversation, and who were the communicators?  Which style best describes the method of communication you and the other person used throughout the conversation? Explain why you selected those styles.  How would the conversation have been different if you had used each of the different styles of communication? Explain each style and how the conversation would have been affected due to the differences.

10.  Learning Team Weekly Reflection  Discuss the previous week’s objectives with your team. Your discussion should include the topics you feel comfortable with, any topics you struggled with, and how the weekly topics relate to application in your field.  Collaborate to prepare a summary of no more than 350 words detailing the findings of your team’s discussion. Your summary does not have to be inAPA format.  Have one team member post your paper to the assignment link in the Gradebook. 

11.  Consider a proposal recommending the implementation of a new system affecting multiple departments, such as a new accounting software system. What might be some of the interests of individual departments such as finance, IT, accounting, and the end-users in the project?

12.  A manufacturing company is faced with a financial and human resources dilemma. It is losing market share and can no longer compete by selling its products at the same price points as overseas manufacturers. In viewing the best long-range goals for the organization, company leaders consider lowering employee wages, layoffs and increased automation, or outsourcing all manufacturing operations overseas. Company executives have requested a proposal from you to solve the problem. What factors must be considered?

13.  Individual Internal and External Stakeholders  Resource: Best Game Productions: Company Background and Business Scenario  Analyzethe information provided to you in the Best Game Productions: Company Background and Business Scenario document.  Write a paper of no more than 1,450 words in which you complete the following:  Explain the business scenario faced by Best Game Productions.  Identify the organization’s internal and external stakeholders.  Explain how the business scenario at Best Game Productions affects multiple internal and external stakeholders.

14.  Learning Team Weekly Reflection  Discuss the previous week’s objectives with your team. Your discussion should include the topics you feel comfortable with, any topics you struggled with, and how the weekly topics relate to application in your field.  Collaborate to prepare a summary of no more than 350 words detailing the findings of your team’s discussion. Your summary does not have to be inAPA format.  Have one team member post your paper to the assignment link in the Gradebook.

15.  What are some forms of external persuasive communication seen on a regular basis? What makes them persuasive?

16.  Select a commercial or advertisement with which you are familiar. Why is it effective or persuasive?

17.  Learning Team Communication Plan Initial Proposal  Now that you have individually analyzed the business scenario at Best Game Productions and have identified the internal and external stakeholders and their concerns, your task is to work as a consulting team to analyze the culture, values, and ethics for the company as well as cultural differences and perspectives for each department. To determine the culture, values, and ethics, consider the company and department information you determined in Week Three. Analyzing the culture, values, and ethics of the company will allow your team to better determine the necessary communications and appropriate channels for your communication plan.

18.  In evaluating your consultant communications, how would you determine your own effectiveness after completing your communications?

20.  Individual Internal and External Persuasive Communication  Now that you have detailed all necessary communications and have determined the best channel for the communications in your plan, you can begin writing these communications. In this assignment, you must write a persuasive memo to internal stakeholders and a press release to external stakeholders. In these communications, describe the scenario at Best Game Productions and explain the solution that you think is best for the company based on all of the information provided. Use that solution and your reason for selecting it throughout the assignment. Be sure to consider the perceptions and needs of each stakeholder, and determine the most appropriate style of communication when addressing the internal and external stakeholders.  Choose one internal and one external stakeholder in Best Game Productions.  Write a persuasive memo of no more than 1,000 words to an internal stakeholder describing Best Game Productions’ dilemma. Include the benefits and rationale.  Write a press release of no more than 1,000 words describing the same situation to an external stakeholder.  Consider the noise that will detract internal and external stakeholders from fully receiving your message, and construct your communications to address or avoid that noise for each stakeholder.

21.  Learning Team Weekly Reflection  Discuss the previous week’s objectives with your team. Your discussion should include the topics you feel comfortable with, any topics you struggled with, and how the weekly topics relate to application in your field.  Collaborate to prepare a summary of no more than 350 words detailing the findings of your team’s discussion. Your summary does not have to be inAPA format.  Have one team member post your paper to the assignment link in the Gradebook. 

22.  What makes a piece of communication persuasive?

23.   How has the electronic age affected business communication channels?

24.  COM 537 Week 6 Individual Assignment Communication Plan Final Proposal

25.  Learning Team Power Point Presentation  Create a 20slide Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation, with speaker notes, for the decision makers at Best Game Productions. Address the following in your presentation:  The project background  The deliverables (what you are going to do for them)  The methodology (how you are going to accomplish it)  The outcome (what you will achieve for them)  The metrics used for evaluation (how you will measure success)  Have one team member post your Power Point presentation and your paper to the assignment link in the Gradebook.

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