Conducting Effective Interviews: A Practical Guide for Business Communication
This lesson focuses on equipping students with essential research skills to conduct effective interviews. Through a structured five-day project, students will learn about different types of interviews, formulate relevant questions, and gather usable information. The objectives include understanding the roles of interviewers and interviewees, evaluating the usefulness of information obtained, and refining communication skills. Students will engage in both informal and formal interviews, culminating in a presentation of their findings. This engaging approach enhances their ability to create meaningful business communications.
Conducting Effective Interviews: A Practical Guide for Business Communication
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Interview Project Unit 2-Lesson 2.3 2.E
Lesson Objectives Performance Objective The student employs appropriate research techniques to produce effective business communications. Specific Objective The student will be able to conduct interviews to obtain resource materials.
Need to Know Terms • Organize • Effective • Resource • Interview
Introduction • Do you know what an interview is? • Did you know there are different kinds of interviews? • Can anyone name some reasons for interviewing? • What, to you, makes a good interview? The interviewer? The interviewee? The questions? The Responses? A combo of all? • Have you ever conducted an informal interview? Have you ever conducted a formal interview? • Have you ever been a part of an informal interview? Have you ever been a part of a formal interview?
Project Overview Day 1: Decide whether or not you want to work on your own or with a partner, and then determine 1) how you will conduct your interviews (Page 2 of handout) and 2) who you will be interviewing (table provided). Day 2: Create interview questions (10 total). Day 3: Conduct interviews and record information (Five total). Day 4: Is the information usable/unusable? How to present findings? Day 5: Report Information.
Review and Evaluation • Can you determine what questions would be good to ask in an interview? • Can you conduct an interview? • Can you record results and determine if the information you gathered is a usable resource or an unusable resource? • What did you like most about the project? • What did you like least about the project? • What would be an improvement to this project?
Enrichment • Find an interview (either one that has been recorded on paper, in a book, on TV, on a movie, on a website) and answer the four questions about what makes the interview good or bad: 1) Is it the interviewer? 2) Is it the interviewee? 3) Is it the questions? 4) Is it the answers? • Develop and conduct a simple interview for you, the teacher. They can interview you in front of the class.