Communicating In The Workplace

Overview
Topics
Performance Objectives

Course Information

Audience
All employees, supervisors or managers.

Training Time
Average - 136 to 272 minutes

Delivery Formats
CD-ROM, LAN, WAN

Product Code
dlmrcitw

Interactive Producer
Convenience Learning International

Original Content Producer
Thomson Delmar Learning

Language(s)
English

Overview

This course covers - presents - prepares the learner to ... 71 interactions actively involve the learner in the training. Lesson interactions provide the learner opportunities to apply what he or she has learned. The computer assesses the learner's level of understanding of all learning objectives. When the learner answers a question incorrectly the computer provides remedial instruction and reviews the material until the learner can answer correctly. All questions in this course are fully narrated. Narrations enhance comprehension and are welcome support for learners with reading skill deficits and when English is the learner's second language.

Mastery's exclusive Follow-up Review, standard in all Mastery Advantage courses, provides time-delayed reinforcement and review of the learner's newly acquired knowledge. The Follow-up Review enhances the transfer of newly acquired knowledge to the learner's long-term memory.

The Learner navigates through the course and its resources using the standard Mastery Control Bar. Course resources include a glossary of terms. A topical index provides a complete map to the instructional material. The learner can ask for all course information on any topic at any time during the lesson presentations.


Topics

The course presents interactive instruction covering
the following topical areas:

Sender and Receiver Skills
· Communication
· Definition
· Ways of communicating
· Communication model
· Sender
· Message
· Channel
· Receiver
· Feedback
· Interference
· Causes: sender
· Causes: channel
· Causes: receiver
· Sender skills
· Memorandums
· Formal reports
· Business letters
· Preparing formal messages
· Receiver skills
· Reading skills: scanning
· Reading skills: skimming
· Reading skills: summarizing
Expectations and Evaluations
· Expectations: definition
· Employer expectations
· Employee expectations
· Performance evaluations
· Definition
· Reasons for evaluations
· Evaluation forms
Communicating With Coworkers
· Communication networks
· Definition
· Official
· Functional
· Friendship
· Gossip
· Factors affecting communication environment
· Positive communication behaviors
· Nonverbal communication
· Resolving conflicts
Succeeding With Your Supervisor
· Official network
· Supervisory styles
· Closed
· Open
· Types of upward communication
· Types of downward communication
· Written vs. Verbal communication channels
· Non-verbal: negative
· Non-verbal: positive

Performance Objectives

This course will measure mastery on each of the following performance objectives. Upon completion, workers will be able to...

Identify the components of a communication system.
Identify at least two barriers to the communication process.
Develop techniques for effective listening.
Develop strategies to remove barriers and improve the communication process.
Identify employer and employee expectations in the workplace.
Recognize the imporatance of performance evaluation in the workplace.
Identify performance factors used in the evaluation process.
Discuss the effect of performance evaluations to improve workplace performance.
Identify communication networks in the workplace.
Recognize verbal and nonverbal behavior.
Discuss coworker communication techniques.
Organize and communicate information in the workplace.
Develop strategies to remove barriers and improve the communication process.
Define the role of the supervisor.
Recognize the communication needs of the employer and employee.
Develop strategies for oral, nonverbal and written communication.
Identify appropriate processes for communicating problems to the supervisor.
Identify positive and negative feedback.



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