TODAYS AGENDA

Team Assignments Syllabus Questions What do effective teams do? What does professional communication look like? 1st Memo Assignment

TEAMS
A Baily, Christopher DeFacci, Kelly Huckins, Nicole Rengel, Michael Smith, Paul Zeng,Meng D Evert, Ashley Mendoza, Javier Stefanson, Spencer Witbeck, Stephen Zhu, Tingting G Carrier, Thomas Hinton,David Thomas, Amanda Woods, Marie xu,xingyang B Fendall, Alexandra Fortune, Christopher Greig, Marie Huang, Yimeng Keane, William E Bowman, Molly Dizick, Ian Harding, Alex Ogata, Kylie Tylman, Andrew Yuanyuan Yu C Chen, Xuefen Gray Timothy Greenberg, Abigail Kiely, Evan Renk, Austin Wilding, Kirstie F Abreu, Daniel Adams, Rachel Blakely, Jacob Moore, Thomas Zhu, Lisa

Get into pairs (or trios if necessary) with Make a difference someone in your team that you do not know. Interview them and nd out: 1. Name 2. Something unique that most people do not know about them 3. What particular quality they will bring to this class to make it better Once interviews are done, introduce each other to your team.

How will you make a difference?

How You Are the Same

Find 5 things that you all have in common They may not be visible or obvious (We all have hair. We are all students.) Strive for the unusual and creative

Effective Teams
Who has been on a dysfunctional team? What was it like? Cause of failure? Who has been on a highperforming team? What was it like? What do effective teams do? Discuss in team and compile answers to present to class.

Team Name - By Next Class

Develop a Team Name that is representative of your group Keep it clean and respectful, yet creative

On every individual assignment you turn in to me, please include the following in a header at the top of the page: Name Team Name Assignment Title Example: Bob Smith A-Team Memo #1

Syllabus Questions?

What constitutes effective professional communication?

Read the memo from Mike Sims. What do you notice? Make notes on the memo about what works/what doesnt and why. Consider this from a communication perspective rather than just a writing perspective (whats the difference?) Discuss with group and come to consensus on the top 3-5 issues with the memo. Record on board and assign someone to explain to class.

Effective Communication
What are the general purposes of business communication? What are the best methods to achieve those purposes?

Understand the rhetorical situation Understand your core message Have a clear communication objective Frame story in a meaningful structure and make it stick Get it right

(Logos) Content
Pedant

Rhetorical Stance
Entertainer Advertiser

(Ethos) Communicator

(Pathos) Audience

We Googled You

YOU - Recently hired member of Hathaway Jones in HR CHALLENGE - Design an effective and fair policy on using online searches during the hiring process SITUATION:You have been asked by your new boss to analyze the issues around online searches in the hiring process and make recommendations. PROBLEM: Online searches are legal but pose potential fairness/discrimination and privacy issues TASK: In a two-page memo, report to Virginia Flanders your recommendations on this issue

We Googled You

Who is your audience? Whos writing the policy? Note: company-wide policynot Mimis case What are some relevant issues of optimal hiring? What are some relevant privacy issues? What are some fairness/discrimination issues? What are some issues surrounding parameters? What are some potential risks?

Read: Problem Solving Proposal documents (on course Website). Print copies to bring to class: Proposal Overview Proposal Context Sample Written Proposals Read: Troublemakers - What Pitbulls Can Teach Us About Proling (weblink) Read: Ladder of Inference (course packet) Complete: Writing Assignment #1 - We Googled You (worth 20 points) - submit through SafeAssign on Blackboard and bring copy to class on 2A On your wordpress site: Change theme (if you havent already). Write rst post on your rst impressions of this course. Add my coursesite and your teammates sites as RSS feeds in sidebar (using Widgets).

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