Strayer University Good Communication Skills Discussion Questions

Your bags are packed for a family vacation to Jamaica, and you leave in three days. Then, your co-worker calls the office to say she can’t come to work this week because her child has the flu and she has no one to babysit. Your supervisor says you have to cover that co-worker’s shift AGAIN for the fourth time in two months. Unfortunately, if you cover the shift, you will miss your vacation, and you will lose the money you spent on it. How would you manage this workplace obstacle using the skills and tools you’ve been learning throughout this course? As a reminder, those skills are communication, technology, productivity, and self and social awareness

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Your professor assigned you to work in a small group with three other students who you’ve never worked with before. She expects each person to participate equally and to complete the work by the designated deadline. However, two of the members are never available to meet in person due to their busy schedules. Using what you’ve learned about technology and its place in improving communication and collaboration, how will you use your technology skill to identify tools that will improve your group’s communication and collaboration?