Describe successful strategies for sending negative messages on routine business matters.

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PLEASE NOTE: Describe successful strategies for sending negative messages on routine business matters.
Professionals and companies receive a wide variety of requests and cannot respond positively to every single one. In addition, mistakes and unforeseen circumstances can lead to delays and other minor problems that occur in the course of business. Whatever the purpose, crafting routine negative responses and messages quickly and graciously is an important skill for every businessperson.

Making Negative Announcements on Routine Business Matters

On occasion managers need to make unexpected negative announcements. Because the news is unexpected, the indirect approach is usually the better choice. Follow the steps outlined for indirect messages: Open with a buffer that establishes some mutual ground between you and the reader, advance your reasoning, announce the change, and close with as much positive information and sentiment as appropriate under the circumstances.

TASK:

Message Strategies: Making Routine Negative Announcements:
Marketing specialists usually celebrate when target audiences forward their messages to friends and family—essentially acting as unpaid advertising and sales representatives. In fact, the practice of viral marketing is based on this hope. For one Starbucks regional office, however, viral marketing started to make the company just a bit sick. The office sent employees in the Southeast an email coupon for a free iced drink and invited them to share the coupon with family and friends. To the surprise of virtually no one who understands the nature of online life, the email coupon multiplied rapidly, to the point that Starbucks stores all around the country were quickly overwhelmed with requests for free drinks. The company decided to immediately terminate the free offer, a month ahead of the expiration date on the coupon.23

Your task: Write a one-paragraph message that can be posted on the Starbucks website and at individual stores, apologizing for the mix-up and explaining that the offer is no longer valid.

Write a letter introducing Live for Life and persuading workers to participate in the new wellness campaign.

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As a human resources specialist at Johnson & Johnson, you’ve identified a costly problem related to employee health. Every time a worker calls in sick or comes to the office feeling lousy and unable to perform well, productivity slides and the company loses money – not just a little but thousands of dollars each year.
To put a lid on the high cost of employee illness, J&J has decided against building another gym or adding more low cholesterol foods to the cafeteria menu (earlier tactics that haven’t paid off very well). Its “Live for Life” wellness campaign offers incentives for achieving and maintaining good health. Even if the program ends up costing the company several hundred dollars per employee, your calculations indicate that that it could save millions of dollars per year through reduced absenteeism and fewer health claims.
The Live for Life program targets several major contributors to poor health and accidents: smoking, drinking, lack of exercise, stress, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, weight gain, and neglecting to use car seat belts. Instead of rewarding results (which can be temporary), the company will reward the process, thus encouraging employees to develop new habits that should keep them healthier, happier, and more productive over the long run.
For example, every employee who exercises an average of 4 hours per week over a month will earn 30 Live for Life dollars – play money exchangeable for merchandise like sweatshirts, sweat socks or even health club memberships. A blood pressure or cholesterol check is worth 5 Live for Life dollars, and a talk with children about drug and alcohol abuse is worth 10. Always wearing your seat belt when driving brings a reward of 25 Live for Life dollars. For all nonsmokers, J&J will reduce employees’ health insurance copayment rates by 5 percent.
To implement the reward system, the company plans to accept all claims employees make about their wellness efforts. After all, getting people thinking about health may get them doing something about it.

task: Write a letter introducing Live for Life and persuading workers to participate in the new wellness campaign.

This is a case where the AIDA approach will work well. Remember, the appeal must be to the employee’s benefit. If their health improves, your company productivity improves as well, but you needn’t speak to that aspect.

AIDA MODEL OF WRITING IS ATTENTION,. INTEREST,DESIRE, ACTION AND DESIRE.

Critique the treatment of the issue in the article by presenting an alternative way of thinking about the topic.

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Reading Journal: You will present the selected passages and concepts by explaining their relevance/ significance in the context of media, society/culture, and globalization. Then present your own research on the topic – bring in examples/ evidence from contemporary issues/ incidents through mediated materials. What do we learn about these issues? How do these topics continue to be relevant? You can even discuss the shift in focus/ relevance. You can also critique the treatment of the issue in the article by presenting an alternative way of thinking about the topic.

Leading the class discussion: In about 10 minutes, present highlights from your research/ reading journal. Your grade for the course is you are able to draw the class in a discussion. End with a discussion question.

Anyone choosing to respond to the discussion question, gets one bonus point. You have an easy way (and the only opportunity in this class) to accumulate some bonus points here which will be added to your final course grade!

Analyze a Sage Case Study (Links to an external site.) article that deals with team conflict

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You will analyze a Sage Case Study (Links to an external site.) article that deals with team conflict and fill out the “Case Study Analysis Template” found in the Module 2 folder. Your response to the case study scenario will be no more than 4 pages: everything you think about the problem, all of your suggested solutions, your incorporation of authoritative, credible outside sources, and your final recommendation must fit on the template, along with your justifications. Be judicious in your language use.

Explain why you think each lesson is important and how it can improve Communication

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Description: For this assignment, you will read Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a
World Designed for Men, write a brief review of the text and connect its lessons to the field of
Communication. Your book review should be 3-4 pages long and accomplish the following: 1)
summarizing/describe the book, 2) evaluate the book’s main arguments, 3) explain what you
learned, and 4) reflect on what the text’s lessons tell us for our own field – Communication.
Summary
In the first section, you should summarize the book. Your summary should cover details that are
important to the book’s arguments. Describe the content of the book and any relevant topics that
are touched upon. Finally, provide relevant details about the author. This section of your paper
should be brief; aim for .5 to .75 pages.
Evaluation
A review is more than a summary of the book. Your evaluation should cover strengths and
limitations of the book’s main arguments. When evaluating the book, it might be helpful to: 1)
think about whether the arguments made were persuasive, 2) look for and evaluate the evidence
provided for any arguments made, and 3) identify any perspectives that may have been left out.
In this section you should also make a judgment on whether or not you would recommend the
book. If you recommend the book, explain who you would recommend the book to and what you
think the readers will gain. If not, explain why you believe this to be the case and provide (if
possible) alternative sources of knowledge (e.g., books, articles, podcasts). This section should
be substantial; aim for 1 to 1.5 pages.
Reflection
The knowledge you were exposed to in this book may be new, unexpected, and/or
uncomfortable. In this section, you will describe what new knowledge you’ve gained by
completing reading this book. Use the following questions as a starting point: 1) what new
knowledge were you confronted with? 2) is there something that the author presented that struck
you as noteworthy? 3) what about this text made you uncomfortable? Why do you think you felt
uncomfortable? This section should be 1 to 1.5 pages.
Connection
While the book was not about Communication, there is surely much we could learn from this
text as Communication scholars. In this section, write about 3-4 lessons from this book that
Communication Scholars should take to inform their future research projects. Be sure to fully
explain why you think each lesson is important and how it can improve Communication
research. This section should be .5 to 1 page.

Choose a company or organization which has had an ethical problem which led to issues which came to the attention of the media or the government (there are many to choose from).

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Choose a company or organization which has had an ethical problem which led to issues which came to the attention of the media or the government (there are many to choose from).

Use the company as the basis of the assignment. Analyze the case and determine the following:

The timeline of events

The ethical issues and dilemmas in the case

Factors that contributed to the ethical issues encountered by the company

The impact of the ethical issues on the company

A review of practices which could have prevented or mitigated the problems encountered, with an emphasis on HR practices

Deliverables:

Written paper, 10 – 12 pages (COUN 5373 students). Include a cover page and bibliography (not part of the page count) ( also paper should be very thorough )

Minimum 5 references

Write a response of you escalating the problems described in the voice mail to Ellen, the Captain in Charge of Plan2Go.

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After your last meetings in the Project Part B assessment document, Lee Tan has left a voicemail for you. Listen to her voicemail: Role play 4 link to audio file.
Write a response of you escalating the problems described in the voice mail to Ellen, the Captain in Charge of Plan2Go. You can approach this as if you are presenting to Ellen using Microsoft Teams, Zoom or Skype. Refer to the Assessor Observation Checklist on how you will be marked. You need to be concise in the video response, with a maximum duration of one page.

Analyze the principles within an intervention program and determine how well they are currently being utilized.

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In a 3- to 4-page paper (not counting reference and abstract pages), analyze the basic theories and principles of crisis intervention programs.

Your paper should:

Identify and describe the four main goals of crisis intervention.
Provide examples of how the four main principles of crisis intervention are used in a crisis intervention program of your choosing.
Analyze the principles within an intervention program and determine how well they are currently being utilized.
Directions
In addition to fulfilling the specifics of the Assignment, a successful paper must also meet the
following criteria:
 Include a cover page and references page in 10–12 point font (Arial, Courier, and Times
New Roman are acceptable)
 Viewpoint and purpose should be clearly established and sustained
 Assignment should follow the conventions of Standard American English (correct grammar,
punctuation, etc.)
 Writing should be well ordered, logical, and unified, as well as original and insightful
 Your work should display superior content, organization, style, and mechanics
 Appropriate citation style should be followed.
You should also make sure to:
 Include a title page with full name, class name, section number, and date
 Include an introductory and concluding paragraph and demonstrate college-level
communication through the composition of original materials in Standard American English
 Use examples to support your discussion
 Cite all sources on a separate reference page at the end of your paper and cited within the
body of your paper using APA format.

Is DHS effective in its five main mission areas?

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In your opinion, considering a DHS budget of over $60 billion annually and over 200,000 employees:

Is DHS effective in its five main mission areas?
Is DHS of value to our nation?
Do you agree with the report statement: “Many of DHS’s programs are ineffective”?

Please reference your response

Does Homeland Security Exist Outside the United States?

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Description

Read the article:

Does Homeland Security Exist Outside the United States?

Pick a country based on your research and discuss how that country has organized their security. Do you agree with Nadav Morag’s statement, “Homeland security is a uniquely American concept”?

Please reference your response