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COM 537 Successful Learning

• COM 537 Entire Course

• COM 537 Week 1 DQ 1

• COM 537 Week 1 Individual Assignment Integrated
  Diffusion Paper
• COM 537 Week 1 DQ 1
• COM 537 Week 1 DQ 2
• COM 537 Week 2 Individual Assignment
  Communication Styles and the Business
  Communication Process

• Reflect on an experience when you misunderstood a
  set of directions, a procedure, or an assigned
  task. What element in the transactional
  communication model went wrong?

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COM 537 Successful Learning

• COM 537 Week 1 DQ 2

• COM 537 Week 1 Individual Assignment Integrated
  Diffusion Paper

• Think of a message you recently communicated.

• Individual Integrated Diffusion Paper
• Resources In the Action Plan section at the end
  of Chapter one in the Integrated Business
  Communication text, there is a discussion that
  revolves around the significance of innovation
  versus ideas from an article by Michael Schrage
  titled Innovation Diffusion.

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COM 537 Successful Learning

• COM 537 Week 2 DQ 2

• COM 537 Week 2 DQ 1

• How do culture and the audience members
  listening agenda or motives affect how a message
  is framed? Provide specific examples.
• Select an organization with which you are
  familiar. If you were a consultant for this
  organization, how would you identify the internal
  and external stakeholders?

• Individual Internal and External Stakeholders
• Resource Best Game Productions Company
  Background and Business Scenario
• Analyze the information provided to you in the
  Best Game Productions Company Background and
  Business Scenario document.
• Write a paper of no more than 1,450 words in
  which you complete the following

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COM 537 Successful Learning

• COM 537 Week 2 Individual Assignment
  Communication Styles and the Business
  Communication Process

• COM 537 Week 2 Team Assignment Weekly Reflection

• Learning Team Weekly Reflection
• Discuss the previous weeks objectives with your
  team. Your discussion should include the topics
  you feel comfortable with, any topics you
  struggled with, and how the weekly topics relate
  to application in your field.
• Collaborate to prepare a summary of no more than
  350 words detailing the findings of your teams
  discussion.

• Individual Communication Styles and the Business
  Communication Process
• Consider a recent interpersonal conversation you
  had in a business setting.
• Write a paper of no more than 1,050 words in
  which you complete the following
• Discuss the content of the conversation.

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• COM 537 Week 3 DQ 1

• COM 537 Week 3 DQ 2

• A manufacturing company is faced with a financial
  and human resources dilemma. It is losing market
  share and can no longer compete by selling its
  products at the same price points as overseas
  manufacturers. In viewing the best long-range
  goals for the organization, company leaders
  consider lowering employee wages, layoffs and
  increased automation, or outsourcing all
  manufacturing operations overseas. Company
  executives have requested a proposal from you to
  solve the problem. What factors must be
  considered?

• Consider a proposal recommending the
  implementation of a new system affecting multiple
  departments, such as a new accounting software
  system. What might be some of the interests of
  individual departments such as finance, IT,
  accounting, and the end-users in the project?

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COM 537 Successful Learning

• COM 537 Week 3 Individual Assignment Internal and
  External Stakeholders

• COM 537 Week 3 Team Assignment Weekly Reflection

• Learning Team Weekly Reflection
• Discuss the previous weeks objectives with your
  team. Your discussion should include the topics
  you feel comfortable with, any topics you
  struggled with, and how the weekly topics relate
  to application in your field.
• Collaborate to prepare a summary of no more than
  350 words detailing the findings of your teams
  discussion.

• Individual Internal and External Stakeholders
• Resource Best Game Productions Company
  Background and Business Scenario
• Analyze the information provided to you in the
  Best Game Productions Company Background and
  Business Scenario document.

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• COM 537 Week 4 DQ 1

• COM 537 Week 4 DQ 2

• Select a commercial or advertisement with which
  you are familiar.

• What are some forms of external persuasive
  communication seen on a regular basis?

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COM 537 Successful Learning

• COM 537 Week 4 Team Assignment Communication Plan
  Initial Proposal

• COM 537 Week 5 DQ 1

• In evaluating your consultant communications, how
  would you determine your own effectiveness after
  completing your communications?

• Learning Team Communication Plan Initial Proposal
• Now that you have individually analyzed the
  business scenario at Best Game Productions and
  have identified the internal and external
  stakeholders and their concerns, your task is to
  work as a consulting team to analyze the culture,
  values, and ethics for the company as well as
  cultural differences and perspectives for each
  department. To determine the culture, values, and
  ethics, consider the company and department
  information you determined in Week Three.
  Analyzing the culture, values, and ethics of the
  company will allow your team to better determine
  the necessary communications and appropriate
  channels for your communication plan.

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COM 537 Successful Learning

• COM 537 Week 5 DQ 2

• COM 537 Week 5 Individual Assignment Internal and
  External Persuasive Communication

• Individual Internal and External Persuasive
  Communication
• Now that you have detailed all necessary
  communications and have determined the best
  channel for the communications in your plan, you
  can begin writing these communications. In this
  assignment, you must write a persuasive memo to
  internal stakeholders and a press release to
  external stakeholders. In these communications,
  describe the scenario at Best Game Productions
  and explain the solution that you think is best
  for the company based on all of the information
  provided.

• How can you gain feedback throughout the
  consulting process?

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COM 537 Successful Learning

• COM 537 Week 5 Team Assignment Weekly Reflection

• COM 537 Week 6 DQ 1

• What makes a piece of communication persuasive?

• Learning Team Weekly Reflection
• Discuss the previous weeks objectives with your
  team. Your discussion should include the topics
  you feel comfortable with, any topics you
  struggled with, and how the weekly topics relate
  to application in your field.
• Collaborate to prepare a summary of no more than
  350 words detailing the findings of your teams
  discussion. Your summary does not have to be
  inAPA format.

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COM 537 Successful Learning

• COM 537 Week 6 DQ 2

• COM 537 Week 6 Individual Assignment
  Communication Plan Final Proposal

• COM 537 Week 6 Individual Assignment
  Communication Plan Final Proposal

• How has the electronic age affected business
  communication channels?

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• COM 537 Week 6 Team Assignment Power Point
  Presentation

• Learning Team Power Point Presentation
• Create a 20slide Microsoft PowerPoint
  presentation, with speaker notes, for the
  decision makers at Best Game Productions. Address
  the following in your presentation
• The project background

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