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For more course tutorials visit<br>www.com425.com<br><br>COM 425 Week 1 DQ 1 Formal vs. Informal Communication<br>COM 425 Week 1 DQ 2 Putting Theory into Practice<br>COM 425 Week 1 Article Critique Does Communication Matter in All Fields<br>COM 425 Week 2 DQ 1 Self-Assessment of Organizational Communication Skills<br>COM 425 Week 2 DQ 2 Using Active Listening<br>COM 425 Week 2 Article Critique – Dealing with Annoying Co-Workers<br>COM 425 Week 3 DQ 1 Your Culture Creates Organizational Culture<br>COM 425 Week 3 DQ 2 Effective Conflict Resolution<br>

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  1. The goal of higher education should be to champion the airing of all honest viewpoints Nothing less is acceptable For More Courses Visit Now www.com425.com COM 425 Course Experience Tradition / com425.com

  2. COM 425 Course Experience Tradition / com425.com COM 425 Entire Course COM 425 Week 1 DQ 1 Formal vs. Informal CommunicationCOM 425 Week 1 DQ 2 Putting Theory into PracticeCOM 425 Week 1 Article Critique Does Communication Matter in All FieldsCOM 425 Week 2 DQ 1 Self-Assessment of Organizational Communication SkillsCOM 425 Week 2 DQ 2 Using Active ListeningCOM 425 Week 2 Article Critique – Dealing with Annoying Co-WorkersCOM 425 Week 3 DQ 1 Your Culture Creates Organizational CultureCOM 425 Week 3 DQ 2 Effective Conflict ResolutionCOM 425 Week 3 Final Paper Outline (New Communication Structure)

  3. COM 425 Course Experience Tradition / com425.com COM 425 Week 1 Article Critique Does Communication Matter in All Fields Article Critique – Does Communication Matter in ALL Fields? Read the article, A tool kit for the real world. In this article, the author discusses the importance of communication skills within a field that many people may not believe strong communication skills are necessary. Write a paper about your thoughts on this article. In your paper, be sure to also address the following: a. Do you believe that strong communication skills are necessary in every type of organization? b. What type of organization do you want to work for in the future?

  4. COM 425 Course Experience Tradition / com425.com COM 425 Week 1 DQ 1 Formal vs. Informal Communication Formal vs. Informal Communication. Organizational communication can flow in many different directions and can take on various ways of being communicated through formal or informal channels. To illustrate this further, Chapter One of your textbook discusses formal and informal channels of communication. Provide an example of formal communication and an example of informal communication. Which type of communication do your prefer in a work environment? Why?

  5. COM 425 Course Experience Tradition / com425.com COM 425 Week 1 DQ 2 Putting Theory into Practice Putting Theory into Practice. In Chapter Two of your textbook, the author discusses four different communication principles. Choose one principle and briefly explain it in your own words. Summarize what the principle is about and share an example from your own life that illustrates it. How do you believe this communication principle can help us understand organizational communication?

  6. COM 425 Course Experience Tradition / com425.com COM 425 Week 2 Article Critique – Dealing with Annoying Co-Workers Article Critique – Dealing with Annoying Co-Workers. Read the article entitled, How to deal with annoying co-workers. Write a paper about your thoughts on this article. Additionally, in your paper, be sure to address the following: a. Share a time when you have encountered one of the six types of people described in the article b. Describe the situation and how you dealt with him or her c. Using the advice given by the author of the article, what can you do the next time you encounter a person of this type?

  7. COM 425 Course Experience Tradition / com425.com COM 425 Week 2 DQ 1 Self-Assessment of Organizational Communication Skills Self-Assessment of Organizational Communication Skills. Many people believe that organizational communication skills should come naturally and are not difficult to obtain. However, this week’s readings might have given you a different perception. Effective organizational communication skills actually require a lot of time and practice.

  8. COM 425 Course Experience Tradition / com425.com COM 425 Week 2 DQ 2 Using Active Listening Using Active Listening. One of the most effective ways that we can improve our communication within the organizational context is through adapting the language that we use. A simple, yet effective way to do this is through the method that your textbook describes as “active listening”. This strategy is explained in Chapter Four of your textbook. Describe a time when you were trying to communicate with another person and active listening would have been helpful. What was the situation? How did he/she respond? How did you respond? What could you have done to improve the communication?

  9. COM 425 Course Experience Tradition / com425.com COM 425 Week 3 DQ 1 Your Culture Creates Organizational Culture Your Culture Creates Organizational Culture. Some students think that they do not have much of a culture at their organization. The truth is that every organization has a culture! Your organizational culture can be related to the way that employees dress, the way that they communicate, or even how they decorate their work environment. An organizational culture is often formed through the many different people that make up the company.

  10. COM 425 Course Experience Tradition / com425.com COM 425 Week 3 DQ 2 Effective Conflict Resolution Effective Conflict Resolution. For this multi-media assignment, watch the Tim Scudder Interview. Write a discussion response about a specific conflict you have experienced with someone else. Although preferred, the conflict does not have to be work-related. Discuss why the conflict was not handled effectively and what could have been done differently.

  11. COM 425 Course Experience Tradition / com425.com COM 425 Week 3 Final Paper Outline (New Communication Structure) Final Paper Outline. Read the Assignment Instructions for the Final Paper. Write a full sentence outline of your final paper (12 point font, Times New Roman font, double spaced). In your outline, create at least one section for each of the five concepts that you will use in your final paper. Be sure to include a bibliography with at least two of the sources that you will use for your final paper. Please make sure that the sources that you use are listed in the APA format. Cite your resources in text and on the reference page. For information regarding APA samples and tutorials, visit the Ashford Writing Center, within the Learning Resources tab on the left navigation toolbar, in your online course.

  12. COM 425 Course Experience Tradition / com425.com COM 425 Week 4 Article Critique – Email Etiquette Article Critique – Email Etiquette. Chapter Eight discusses the role of mediated communication in the workplace. Read the article entitled, Email etiquette: Tips for professional email, then write a paper about your thoughts on this article. In your paper, be sure to also address the following: a. Do you find these tips to be helpful or do you think that they are too obvious and should be common sense? b. Were there any tips that made you disagree with the author? c. Which tips will you adapt into your computer-mediated communication?

  13. COM 425 Course Experience Tradition / com425.com COM 425 Week 4 DQ 1 Barriers to Organizational Development Barriers to Organizational Development. In Chapter Nine of your textbook, the author discusses the concept of organizational development. Although organizational development can be an effective way for companies to remain competitive, only about two-thirds of change efforts are actually successful. Why do you believe organizational development is so difficult? Think of a barrier to organizational development that you have personally experienced as an employee or that stands out to you as being common. Explain why you believe this barrier is challenging for organizations as well as what you would do to overcome it, if you were faced with change in your organization.

  14. COM 425 Course Experience Tradition / com425.com COM 425 Week 4 DQ 2 Mediated Communication in Organizations Mediated Communication in Organizations. Mediated communication and social media (e.g., email, blogs, Facebook, Skype, and Twitter) have played a major role in changing the way that organizations engage in communication with their customers and with employees internally. As we have learned this week, communicating through electronic media is referred to as mediated communication. There are pros and cons to using mediated communication in the work environment. How do you believe mediated communication has improved organizational communication? How has it hurt organizational communication? Provide examples to illustrate your point.

  15. COM 425 Course Experience Tradition / com425.com COM 425 Week 5 DQ 1 Stability and Innovation Stability and Innovation. Describe the concepts of organizational stability and organizational innovation. Provide a real-life example of how an organization has maintained stability and promoted innovation. You can use an example from your personal experiences in the workplace or an example that is discussed in Chapter Nine of your textbook.

  16. COM 425 Course Experience Tradition / com425.com COM 425 Week 5 DQ 2 Ethical Organizational Communication Ethical Organizational Communication. Explain each of the three principles of ethical organizational communication, as outlined in Chapter Ten of your textbook. Then, describe how these principles are important during external organizational communication, such as lobbying, marketing or advertising.

  17. COM 425 Course Experience Tradition / com425.com COM 425 Week 5 Final Paper (New Communication Structure) The purpose of the COM 425 Final Paper is to provide you with an opportunity to demonstrate your knowledge of the organizational communication concepts and skills that you have learned throughout this course. Imagine that you are proposing a new communication structure for an organization. Write a formal proposal in which you discuss at least five concepts that you feel are most important for successful communication within an organizational setting. Address why these concepts are necessary for successful communication and how best to implement them within an organization.

  18. The goal of higher education should be to champion the airing of all honest viewpoints Nothing less is acceptable For More Courses Visit Now www.com425.com COM 425 Course Experience Tradition / com425.com

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