Category: Communication

TEDx Talk: What Does Culture Look Like in Real Life?

Posted on | by Kelvin

For this Performance Task Assessment, you have been asked to present a TEDx Talk in your local community on the topic “What Does Culture Look Like in Real Life?” You’re excited about this possibility because, as an expert in intercultural communication, you believe strongly that to be an effective intercultural communicator, you need to understand culture by examining your own personal culture and cultural identity. You have suggested that your presentation will define culture, share the complexity of culture through diversity icebergs and a mini cultural autobiography, and discuss the complexities of cultural identities.
The people at TEDx are thrilled with your ideas! Here are the guidelines they have sent back for your script:
Drawing on definitions of culture from quality resources, share your definition of culture as a complex concept. (1/2 page)
Analyze your personal culture.
Explain what a diversity iceberg is and how diversity icebergs relate to personal cultures (1–2 pages)
Create a personal example of a diversity iceberg, and fill in both “above water” and “below water” dimensions with your own cultural characteristics as follows:
5 highly visible characteristics of your personal culture that people would notice very quickly if you were spending time with them.
10 less visible or not visible characteristics of your personal culture people wouldn’t immediately notice.
Note: Please scan and submit your diversity iceberg with your script so that it becomes part of your TEDx presentation.
Based on the characteristics you included in your diversity iceberg, write a mini cultural autobiography explaining who you are in terms of the complexity of your personal culture. (1 page)

Communication problems faced when working as a team

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As a follow-up of your Week 4 presentations, reflect upon:
Communication problems that you faced when working as a team
Barriers to active listening that you encountered while listening to your colleagues’ presentations (physical, psychological, cognitive etc.)
Suggest the strategies to overcome barriers to active listening and become a more successful communicator

 

Effective Communication Video

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Watch the following TedTalks video, where Nancy Durate discusses communication: http://www.ted.com/talks/nancy_duarte_the_secret_structure_of_great_talks
A. FIRST STEP – Create a post to reply to question 1 and question 2:
1. Do you agree with Ms. Duarte’s thoughts on a giving a presentation vs. telling a story? How about the “shape” she gives to a good speech? Why or why not?
2. Do an online search for “Steve Jobs speech” and “Martin Luther King speech.” What did you find? What can you learn about communication from this?
B. SECOND STEP – After you have posted your reply for question 1 and question 2, create two other posts to respond to your classmates on question 3:
3. Read and reply to two other students’ posts. Go beyond agreement. Add your insight and something new to their post, in reply to their comments on the video.

 

 

 

Effective communication is most important

Posted on | by Brian Leakey

Communication helps us express our ideas and better understand others. In fact, delivering clear messages through oral and written communication are critical aspects of our daily lives.Take a second to think about all the ways in which you communicate throughout your day. Maybe you communicate with your teacher, friends, boss, coworkers, family, etc.
In which aspect of your daily life listed below do you think effective communication is most important? Out of the three options listed below, choose just one option and thoroughly explain why communication in this area is most important.
Academic (i.e., communicating with instructors, deans, and success coaches).
Employment (i.e., communicating with colleagues and supervisors).
Personal (i.e., communicating with family and friends).
Typically a substantial post consists of 5-7 sentences,

Moving from the survival brain

Posted on | by Brian Leakey

Paragraph 1: As a society have we learned “We wouldn’t say it to their faces, so let’s not type it” yet? In what ways?
Paragraph 2: You just learned about many different aspects of attribution, which play a part in how you think about issues yourself and how you attach meaning to others’ behaviors. Our society is currently filled with some major tensions, specifically, Covid 19 and social justice. Here are some questions to direct your discussion response based on these two topics.
What challenges do you see in society from moving from the survival brain to more conscious minded thinking, to help move away from Stereotyping? What aspects of this are challenging for you? Why?

Privileged communication

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Privileged communication is a legal concept that prohibits the disclosure of confidential communications, while referring to confidentiality as the ethical responsibility of professionals to safeguard clients from unauthorized disclosures. This is one example of an important distinction that spans the legalities and ethical nature of professional practice. An understanding of these distinctions is not only characteristic of a responsible professional, but is also vital to the provision of ethically and legally accountable services in clients’ best interests.

Discuss the differences between confidentiality, privacy, and privileged communication, as well as the differences between the duty to warn and duty to protect. What would you think is the most important aspect of confidentiality as it relates to your profession?

Communications and emergency management

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Communications has become an increasingly critical function in emergency management and is vital in all phases of disaster management.
How are they critical?
Why is it important to have an open an honest communications policy?
The text speaks to a “customer focus” with a disaster communications policy.
Who are the “customers” that we must account for when considering our communications policy?