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PURPOSIVE COMMUNICATION

Lesson 5 – Business Communication


Learning Alley  Give Facts Rather Than Vague
Impressions
 Improving your communication skills
 Use concreates language,
maybe the single most important
specific details, and
step you can take in your career.
information that is clear,
 The changing nature of employment
convincing, accurate, and
is putting new pressure on
ethical. When an opinion is
communication skills, too.
called for, present
 If you launch a company or move
compelling evidence to
into an executive role in an existing
support your conclusion.
organization, you can expect
 Present Information in a Concise,
communication to consume the
Efficient Manner
majority of your time.
 Concise messages show
 Employers sometimes express
respect for people’s time,
frustration at the poor
and they increase the
communication skills of employees-
chances of a positive
particularly recent college graduates
response.
who haven’t learned yet how to
 Clarify expectations and
adapt their communication styles to
responsibilities
a professional environment.
 Craft messages to generate a
What Makes Business Communication specific response from a
Effective? specific audience. When
appropriate, clearly state
 Effective communication Strengthens what you expect from
the connections between a company audience members or what
and all of its stakeholders, those you can do for them.
groups affected in some way by the  Offer Compelling, Persuasive
company’s actions: customers, arguments and Recommendations
employees, shareholders, suppliers,  Show your readers precisely
neighbors, the community, the how they will benefit by
nation and the world as a whole. responding the way you
 To make your communication efforts want them to respond to
as effective as possible, focus on your message.
making them practical, factual,
concise, persuasive (Thill & Bovee, The Dynamic Nature of Communication
2015):
 Two or more people send and
 Provide Practical Information
receive simultaneously. At the same
 Give recipients useful
time, you are receiving one message,
information, whether it’s to
you may be sending another.
help them perform a desired
 For example, the look on your face as
action and understand a new
you are receiving a message may be
company policy.
sending a new message to the sender
that you either understand, agree
PURPOSIVE COMMUNICATION
Lesson 5 – Business Communication
with, or are baffled by the message
being sent. And the feedback thus
given may prompt the sender to
modify his or her intended message.
 According to Marshall McLuhan “The
medium you use to express your
message not only identifies the form
of the message but also becomes a
part of the message.”

How do you determine which medium will


be the most effective for your message?

And exactly how does the medium affect


the message you send?

Consider this communication situation

 Assume that your travel Itinerary for


two weeks from just now just
changed, and you find that you will
have to stay another week in your
Davao office.
 You decide to use one evening to
dine and wine with a loyal customer
in nearby Southwoods subdivision.
Which medium should you use to
invite her and her spouse to dinner?

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