Module 4: October 31st – November 6th – Workplace Messaging – Oral and Written C

Module 4: October 31st – November 6th – Workplace Messaging – Oral and Written
Communication
For this week’s assignment, you are on your own to source articles dealing with workplace
messaging. All types of messages occur within organizations. We address a few of those in this
week’s assignment.
Post your responses/answers to the following four questions. You should cite a minimum of one
outside source for each question.
Your answers must not exceed ½ page each. You are not required to respond to other posts in
this assignment.
1. Describe a time when you should have had a face-to-face meeting instead of sending an
electronic message. Why would this face-to-face meeting have been better?
2. What is your strategy to avoid sending a direct message, text, or tweet that you might
regret later on?
3. Describe an occasion in which you should have written a goodwill message expressing
thanks, recognition and/or sympathy, but failed to do so. Why was it difficult to write
that message? What would make it easier for you to do so?
Analyze the corporate jargon for getting laid off: realigning the workforce, reallocating
resources, rightsizing the company, eliminating redundancy, rewiring for growth, smart-sizing
the company, redeploying workers, and rebalancing human capital. How do these terms
compare to “fired, booted out, given the boot, or get the ax?”