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Instructions:

Reflect on what you have learned about effective communications. As you have learned, the interview provides you an opportunity to demonstrate your ability to communicate verbally. As you are learning in this unit, the Thank You letter you send after your interview is a written communication designed to close the sale and get you a job offer.

With this in mind, discuss the following:

• Verbal communication skills
  • What are 2 barriers you experience when you are trying to engage in effective verbal communication?
  • How can you overcome each of the barriers you identified? (For each barrier describe two (2) approaches you could use to overcome them)
• Written communication skills
  • What are 2 barriers you experience when you are trying to engage in effective written communication?
  • How can you overcome each of the barriers you identified? (For each barrier describe two (2) approaches you could use to overcome them)
• Discuss how you can use these approaches in your:
  • Interviews
  • Cover and thank you letters

Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with citations and references in APA format.

1. From a letter to the editor: “the idea of a free press in America today is joke. A small group of people, the nation’s advertisers, control the media more effectively than if they can dictate everything from programming to news report content. Politicians as well as editors shiver in their boots at the thought of such a boycott. This situation is intolerable and ought to be changed. I suggest we all listen to National Public Radio and public television”. Is there an argument in this phrase, if yes what is the premise and conclusion

Primary Task Response: Within the Discussion Board area, write 400–600 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation for future discussions by your classmates. Be substantive and clear and use examples to reinforce your ideas.

Based upon the course readings, supplementary materials, and your own literature search via the CTU online library, provide the following for this discussion:

• Review and analyze the practitioner literature of organizational change and development.
• Provide at  least 2 scholarly resources to support your response. 

Use the LIBRARY or the MGMT Doctoral Library for help.

Please see attached 

 Please read and respond to the attachment.

Note: Only up to 20% of the content in the written response can be quotes from third parties. 

Read two articles that address the same topic but are two different types of sources

Book Review Instructions

Read the following: Grudem, W. (2003). Business for the glory of God: The Bible’s teaching on the moral goodness of business. Wheaton: IL: Crossway. ISBN: 9781581345179.

Begin reading during the first module/week of the course. In Module/Week 5, you will submit a book review of 1,000 words in current APA format. Choose 1 chapter and write an in-depth review of the chapter you choose. Discuss 1 or 2 main points with which you agree and 1 or 2 with which you do not agree, supporting your thoughts with well-reasoned arguments. Your analysis must also be supported by at least 3 sources other than the Grudem book, and by biblical principles. Each additional source must be cited in-text and in a reference list in current APA format. This review will be evaluated based on the grading rubric provided.

Week 1 

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apa format

1-2 paragrahs

references

How are critical thinking and decision making related? Identify and discuss at least 3 heuristic decision-making strategies for leaders. 

1. Are leaders thinking critically when we use heuristics in strategic decision making? Explain your answer. 
2. Practical Application: Describe a decision a leader that you are familiar with has recently made. The decision can be of a personal or professional nature. Assess whether the leader seemed to use heuristics vs. critical thinking in their decision-making. Discuss why one method would be more effective than the other in reaching the decision.