Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Chap 02
Chap 02
Chapter 2
Communicating in Teams:
Collaboration, Listening,
Nonverbal, and Meeting Skills
Chapter 2 Objectives
Chapter 2 Objectives
continued
Working in Teams
Group
Group dynamics
dynamics Self-oriented
Self-oriented roles
roles
Norms Team-maintenance
Team-maintenance
Norms roles
roles
Task-facilitating
Task-facilitating
roles
roles
To accompany Excellence in Business Communication, 5e , Thill and Bovée © 2002 Prentice-Hall
2.7
Five Phases of
Team Decisions
Orientation
Conflict
Brainstorm
Emergence
Reinforcement
Developing an
Effective Team
Clear
Clear sense
sense of
of purpose
purpose
Open,
Open, honest
honest communication
communication
Decision
Decision by
by consensus
consensus
Creative
Creative thinking
thinking
Focused
Focused on
on core
core issues
issues
To accompany Excellence in Business Communication, 5e , Thill and Bovée © 2002 Prentice-Hall
2.9
Understanding Conflict
Resolving Conflict
Proaction
Communication
Openness
Research
Flexibility
Fair Play
Alliance
To accompany Excellence in Business Communication, 5e , Thill and Bovée © 2002 Prentice-Hall
2.11
Overcoming Resistance
Express understanding.
Make people aware of their resistance.
Evaluate others’ objections fairly.
Hold your arguments until the other
person is ready.
Some Types of
Nonverbal Communication
Facial
Touching
Touching Gestures
Gestures
Behavior
Behavior and
and
Expression
Postures
Postures
Decide on the
purpose.
Select participants.
Choose an
appropriate location.
Set and follow an
agenda.