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Business and Professional Communication Keys For Workplace Excellence 3Rd Edition Quintanilla Solutions Manual Full Chapter PDF
Business and Professional Communication Keys For Workplace Excellence 3Rd Edition Quintanilla Solutions Manual Full Chapter PDF
Directions:
1. The activity relies on the discussion of the difference(s) between groups and teams as
discussed in chapter 7.
2. Discuss with the class the prevalence of small-group assignments in college and
university settings, allowing the students to briefly react. Keep their discussion short
because they should include some of these thoughts in the reflection writing
assignment.
3. Assign the students to individually write a one-page paper on the difference(s) between
groups and teams. They should provide a definition of each. They should also suggest
ways that group projects assigned could be improved by using the team approach rather
than the group approach.
4. The instructor should ask for student volunteers to share thoughts or conclusions with
the class on how group projects assigned could be improved by using the team
approach rather than the group approach.
Directions:
1. The instructor should assign the students the following or similar article on identifying
team roles to read prior to the next class period. The tile of the article is Belbin’s Team
roles https://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newLDR_83.htm
2. Each student should attempt to identify what team role they think they might fit best
into as part of a team.
3. During the next class period, the instructor should have the students divide up into
groups based on the roles the students identified as being the possible role they would
play in a team.
4. Have each of the groups spend 10 minutes or so sharing with each why they felt this is
the role they would play in a team.
5. Bring the class back together and discuss why understanding possible roles individuals
might play in a team would make the team more effective and efficient.
Activity 3: John Dewey’s Problem-Solving Exercise
Description: This is a small-team exercise to expose students to the process-oriented way of
solving problems as a team.
Directions:
1. Students should be familiar with the Problem Solving section of chapter 7 dealing with
John Dewey’s Reflective Thinking Process.
2. The class should be divided up into teams of 4 or 5 people.
3. The problem that all teams are to solve is how to plan, execute, and prepare to
completion a team literature review research project on the topic of Cultural Diversity
Problems in the Workplace. The instructor can substitute another topic of their
choosing.
4. The instructor can choose how much class time to allow for this activity.
5. The instructor should assign the task and instruct the teams that they must use the
Reflective Thinking Process to complete the planning process.
6. After the time has ended, the instructor should have each group share the successful
parts of using the Reflective Thinking Process as well as potential problems that arose.
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Pink-purple foxgloves
Leaning to the breeze—
And all the sweet of Devon
Sweeps back across the seas:
From the old kind books came the old friends trooping,
And the old songs called, like the curlew swooping;
And like a sudden sup that was hot and strong and sweet,
The love of bonny Scotland, it ran from head to feet.
What far-away workman made her, and what was his meaning?
Was she a Victory? or Hope, or Faith?
O flag, though you were not my own, I know I should love you:
I love all flowers, all flags:
Their colors in the wind flowing, in the sun brightening:
Deep blue of the night sky, or the splendor of flame,
Or green of spring, or the daring imperious scarlet,
The color of men’s blood:
Their curious blazonry I love, heraldic, historic,
Leopard or eagle, stripe or star or raying sun,
Or the Cross of St. George and the Cross of St. Andrew,
Or whatsoever sign men have loved and followed.