Select a process, product, service, project, initiative, system, or another thing at your place of employment (or a community organization with which you work) that you feel is in need of innovative change. Write 1-2 paragraphs that highlight your selection, why you chose it, and what opportunities you see for it.

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Improvement thought

Innovation Workshop Phase
Select a process, product, service, project, initiative, system, or another thing at your place of employment (or a community organization with which you work) that you feel is in need of innovative change. Write 1-2 paragraphs that highlight your selection, why you chose it, and what opportunities you see for it. Seek approval from your leadership team to conduct the upcoming session.

What ideas did you generate when you cleared space in your day/mind by removing that something over the last week? How can you use this in your workplace to generate new ideas? How can innovation theory help solve social justice problems in our world?

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Describe Innovation Theory

Readings:
Tharp: pp. 60 -115
Weiss, J. (2011). The innovation mismatch: “Smart capital” and education innovation. Harvard Business Review. Retrieved from https://hbr.org/2011/03/the-innovation-mismatch-smart.

Video:
Center on Developing Child, Harvard University – Building Adult Capabilities to Improve Child Outcomes: A Theory of Change (5:18 minutes).

Assignment:
Select one question from the readings to reflect on and one question from the video(s) to reflect on within the Discussion Board. Respond to both prompts of your choice in a single discussion board post.

Questions from Readings: What ideas did you generate when you cleared space in your day/mind by removing that something over the last week? How can you use this in your workplace to generate new ideas?

Question from Video: How can innovation theory help solve social justice problems in our world?

xplain how you would adjust your own perceptions and sense of identity and effective communication in order to include this person in your own life as a friend. What are some things you would do (concepts that you would apply) to best communicate your own ideas, wants, and needs with a person from this particular culture?

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Intercultural knowledge and competence

The world around us continues to grow and change. In order to communicate with the diverse people from different cultures in the expanding global environment, we need to understand and deal with our own perceptions and sense of self. Friendship is a very important arena for this kind of intercultural exchange.

The Assignment
Review the concepts you have learned about Interpersonal Communication, Identity, Perceptions, Verba/Non-Verbal Communication, Mindful Listening, Managing Emotions, Communication Climate, and Managing Conflict in Chapters 1 through 9 in the Wood (2020) textbook. Review the concepts you learned about global and intercultural communication in chapter 14 of the Public Speaking Project (http://publicspeakingproject.org/PDF%20Files/global%20web%201.pdf) (Opens in a new window).

Now, choose a particular culture in the world whose members have very different perceptions about identity and effective communication than your own perceptions about identity and effective communication. Do some research to learn more about this one particular culture and the norms that shape its forms and expressions of communication, identity, and perception. Apply key concepts about friendship from Chapter 10, and key concepts about communication from Chapters 1 – 9 to explain how you would participate in a healthy and positive friendship with a person from this different culture. You may use an actual friendship in your life, or you may answer this prompt hypothetically (in other words: imagine that you had a friendship with a person from this different culture.)

Draft a well-organized five-paragraph essay (one Introduction Paragraph, three Body Paragraphs, and one Conclusion Paragraph) that declares a thesis statement and clearly answers the following prompts:

Compare and contrast your own perceptions of identity and effective communication with the perceptions of identity and effective communication often held by people in this other cultural group that you have chosen

Explain how you would adjust your own perceptions and sense of identity and effective communication in order to include this person in your own life as a friend. What are some things you would do (concepts that you would apply) to best communicate your own ideas, wants, and needs with a person from this particular culture? What are some things you would do (concepts that you would apply) to better understand and honor your friend’s ideas, wants, and needs?

Explain why dual perspective, as described by Wood (2020, pp. 38-39) is an important part of this process for you?

Identify your chosen issue, demonstrate why the issue is important, how it has been portrayed/addressed in the past in entertainment and why you believe they were successful…or not successful or a combination (what worked, what didn’t), why you feel the issue would benefit from an entertainment education campaign, and justify your rationale for why. Show your sources for any research about the issue, its prevalence, etc.

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Entertainment strategies

Review a particular health or social issue that might benefit from an Entertainment Education campaign and what, if anything, has been done in the past to address this issue through entertainment. (I was thinking of a campaign to try and prevent Drunk Driving among high schoolers or young adults.) You will identify your chosen issue, demonstrate why the issue is important, how it has been portrayed/addressed in the past in entertainment and why you believe they were successful…or not successful or a combination (what worked, what didn’t), why you feel the issue would benefit from an entertainment education campaign, and justify your rationale for why. Show your sources for any research about the issue, its prevalence, etc.

How would you describe the leader’s ability to clearly state the meeting’s goals and to engage members in a meaningful discussion? Was an agenda given and followed? How well did you feel the meeting was managed? If there were any guest speakers there, how well did they communicate? Be specific.

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Meeting Evaluation Essay

How would you describe the leader’s ability to clearly state the meeting’s goals and to engage members in a meaningful discussion? Was an agenda given and followed? How well did you feel the meeting was managed? If there were any guest speakers there, how well did they communicate? Be specific.

How would you evaluate the group’s listening and engagement skills? Did the group make decisions? Did any participants change their expressed views or their votes during the meeting? Did those with dissenting opinions get an opportunity to voice their objections? How well did the individual participants listen? Be specific.

Did you observe any communications barriers? How would evaluate the space? Were there issues of volume or language or technology that prevented things from being heard? Were people paying attention? Was it a good time of day to hold a meeting? Be specific.

Briefly summarize the central idea of the speech. Clearly identify TWO different support materials used in the speech. The speaker’s visual aids are not effective. What is your specific suggestion to improve her visual aids?

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Instruction for Speech Analysis 3

Watch the following persuasive speech on youtube.com and then critique it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1gVjWtwVrU&feature=share&list=PL62837AEA3A46F25E

Putting the Brakes on Teenage Driving

The analysis should be two full pages in length, double space, 12-point and typewritten. Turn in your analysis via Canvas. In the analysis, you should

  1. Briefly summarize the central idea of the speech (3 points)

 

  1. Clearly identify TWO different support materials used in the speech (4 points)
    1. Definition
    2. Vivid Image
    3. Example
    4. Narrative
    5. Comparison and Contrast
    6. Analogy
    7. Testimony
    8. Statistics

 

  1. The speaker’s visual aids are not effective. What is your specific suggestion to improve her visual aids? (3 points)

 

  1. In addition to ineffective visual aids, identify THREE areas for improvement. Do not simply say “bad” or “weak”.  You should explain how or why the speaker is doing poorly. You may use the following items in your critique. (9 points)

 

  1. Tell the speaker how to repair the THREE weaknesses. Make sure your advices are measurable and specific. (9 points)

 

  1. Estimate the percentage of Ethos, Logos, and Pathos used in this speech

Have you already paid the thief? Was the art delivered by the thief or thieves? Did you receive one painting? Is the envelope we found related to the museum heist? Can you identify your buyer, if you have one?

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INTERROGATION QUESTIONS FOR INTERVIEW FLOWCHART

We had a brainstorming session and came up with the following yes/no questions that we’d like
you to ask in the lie-detector session with each fence. Can you organize these into a flowchart
that shows how you’d move on from each question given either a yes or no response? Use
LucidChart.com, and submit your flowchart for review.
Note that we’ve got the following lines of questioning:
• Number of paintings received
• Thief identity (or more info)
• Identity of, or info about, the delivery person (if not the thief)
• Delivery vehicle info
• Buyer info
• Payment info
• Envelope info
You might be able to use these different lines of questioning as a way to organize the questions
in the interview (and the flowchart).

Here are the questions:
– Have you already paid the thief? (if so, get payment details)
– Was the art delivered by the thief or thieves?
– Did you receive one painting?
– Is the envelope we found related to the museum heist?
– Can you identify your buyer, if you have one? (if so, get identity)
– Did you meet the delivery person or persons?
– For each delivery person (thief or otherwise):
o Was he/she tall?
o Was he/she a man or a woman?
o Can you identify them? (if so, get identity or identities)
– Did you see the delivery vehicle? (if so, get details)
– Did you receive more than one painting?
– Do you have a buyer?
– Does Speedy Courier know the delivery destination of the envelope already? (if so, get
delivery destination)

From your own experiences, identify which strategies seem most effective in a particular situation and explain why.

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Week 7

While failures are often brushed under the rug, Liu highlights some of the ways leaders fail and some framing strategies for responding to failures. From your own experiences, identify which strategies seem most effective in a particular situation and explain why.

What examples from Jim Taylor’s life illustrate how wealth, power and status translate into better health? In contrast, what examples from Corey Anderson’s life illustrate lack of control over his daily life? Given what we learn in the video, how might this lack of control impact his health, and why?

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Unnatural Causes

Watch the following episode of Unnatural Causes: Unnatural Causes: In Sickness and in Wealth. This is a video about poverty and health. It’s fairly long, but if you watch about the first 40-45 minutes of it you should get the main idea. Being aware of the social determinants of health is extremely important, so please take the time to watch it. After viewing, please respond to the following: What examples from Jim Taylor’s life illustrate how wealth, power and status translate into better health? In contrast, what examples from Corey Anderson’s life illustrate lack of control over his daily life? Given what we learn in the video, how might this lack of control impact his health, and why?

write one 3-5 page paper that demonstrates your comprehension and application of important communication concepts in analyzing communication phenomena.

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Term Paper

Assignment Requirements You will write one 3-5 page (excluding title page and reference pages) paper that demonstrates your comprehension and application of important communication concepts in analyzing communication phenomena.