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This is a sample wiki for Communications for Professionals.

Here's one bit of text from the course.

A communicator within a professional organization has to deal with variables that are both general (cultural background, age, etc.) and specific to the organization (role of the person in the organization, organizational atmosphere, etc.). You may be thinking, "Phew! There are so many variables--how does anyone ever become an effective communicator?" Realize, first and foremost, that you don't have to be "bombarded" by communication variables. Instead, you can approach them systematically, gain control, and use them to your benefit in creating professional communications if you do a situational analysis, or an evaluation of the variables in the communication situation. A situational analysis can organize communication variables in the following way: