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Updates:

Business Core: Your Professional Dress days will be on every Thursday of the month unless otherwise noted. Remember, this may change with guest speakers, field trips, or presentations (typically these will replace the Thursday dress days for the week).

Marketing/Entrepreneurship: Your Professional Dress days will be on every Friday of the month unless otherwise noted. Remember, this may change with guest speakers, field trips, or presentations (typically these will replace the Thursday dress days for the week).

BUSINESS CORE VOCAB

1.  Find the definitions using Google or Yahoo!
2.  Discussion and correction of vocab to be conducted following class
3.  Pop quiz on 5-10 random terms daily (graded)
4.  Some words are a part of the vocab but do not need to be researched
5.  Write definitions in your own words

***Note:  Wikipedia is not always accurate but can be useful to confirm or verify definitions

Chapter 10

Brainstorming - group discussion technique used to generate as many ideas possible for solving problems
Conflict - a situation that develops when one person interferes with the achievement of another's goals
Communication - refers to the sharing of information, which results in a high degree of understanding between the message sender and receiver
Distraction - anything that interferes with the sender's creating and delivering a message and the receiver's message getting and interpreting a message.
Distortion - refers to how people consciously or unconsciously change messages
Feedback - a receiver's response to a sender's message
Non-verbal communication - delivering messages by means other than speaking or writing
Formal communication network - composed of different levels of management with information flowing upward, downward, and across an organization in a prescribed manner.
Informal communication networks - consists of unofficial ways of sharing information in an organization
Nominal Group Technique - a process a leader uses to involve all group members to solve a difficult problem that may create conflicts among members.
Channel of communication -the means by which a message is conveyed
Communication network -a structure through which information flows in a business
Emoticons -facial expressions created with keyboard symbols and used to express feelings in email mesages
Flame -an electronic message that contains abusive, threatening, or offensive content, that may violate company policy or public law.
Grapevine -an informal communication system that develops among workers
Spam -unsolicited advertising over email
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