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Professional Communication Skills Vocab
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Professional Communication Skills Vocab
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1. The way in which people segment a sequence of words or behaviors

2. Two or more people working together to produce a result they could not have produced on their own

3. This refers to a tendency for group members to seek social harmony so much that it negatively impacts their decision-making abilities

4. Being adaptive - creative - and experimental in your communication style

5. To explain or tell the meaning of; to conceive in the light of individual belief - judgment - or circumstance

6. An initial assembly of your team to familiarize all members with the goals - expectations - and particulars of the project and each other

7. The capabilities of the technology used to communicate online

8. A leadership style in which the leader makes decisions by herself

9. To pay attention to sound. To hear something with thoughtful attention: give consideration

10. Reward for engaging in some activity. Example: when an audience applauds you during a presentation

11. Cultures that view conflict as a threat and to be avoided

12. The process whereby one person stimulates meaning in the mind of another through verbal and/or nonverbal means

13. Lack of reward for engaging in a particular activity. In this case - specifically - children seldom encouraged to - or actively discouraged from - practicing communication skills

14. A culture in which the emphasis in on how intention or meaning can best be conveyed through the context and nonverbal channels

15. Characteristics of the audience a speaker might want to know before a speech - such as - ethnicity - ages - education level - sex - socio-economic status

16. A type of book that does not consist of one comprehensive study but instead a number of studies written by various authors

17. The substantive aspect of a message

18. The result of an act of encoding

19. Mediated communication that occurs with both participants attending message exchange in real-time

20. The general predisposition to avoid situations that require communication

21. The consequentialist principle that one should choose the course of action that creates the most god for the greatest number of people

22. Documented tasks assigned to a member for completion by a particular time

23. Cultures that work together to achieve a democratic and egalitarian decision-making process and power structure

24. The process where you rearticulate - in your words - what you learned from consulting the research of an original author

25. To say something in return: make an answer; to react in response