Business Communication

Business Communication Headline News provides news about communication for instructors of business communication. It is a companion to three college texts on business communication.

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Business English Grammar Lessons These lessons will be useful to anyone teaching business English. Read the original story here If the above link is broken, view our cached copy instead.

10 Icebreakers for Meetings Divide the meeting participants into groups of four or five people by having them number off. (You do this because people generally begin a meeting by sitting with the people they already know best.) Read the original story here If the above link is broken, view our cached copy instead.

Create Effective Charts with PowerPoint Graphs (called charts in PowerPoint) are an important part of many presentations, especially ones with financial data. In this tip, I include the basics for creating a readable, effective graph. Read the original story here If the above link is broken, view our cached copy instead.

How to Commmunicate about Change Richmond.com One of the perennial issues in many organizations is how to communicate about change. It’s a problem that appears with such regularity that "change communication" (and "change management" for that matter) has become a cliché. Because, after all–let’s say it together–the only constant is change. Read the original story here If the above link is broken, view our [...]

The 8 Intelligence Types: Which Type Are You? Do you think IQ tests provide the best indication of intelligence? You may be surprised to know that some scientists don’t think so. As a matter of fact, one scientist came up with a new theory about intelligence more than twenty years ago. Dr. Howard Gardner of Harvard University proposed that people were much more [...]

Test Yourself: Body Language and Persuasion Facial expressions can be good predictors of what the person you are persuading is thinking, but it requires fairly significant study. Body language and facial expressions when combined offer an even better picture of how your message is being received. Many people believe that they are good interpreters of body language and facial expressions, [...]

Ten Commandments of Blog and Wiki Etiquette Fueled in large part by the usercentric Web 2.0 trend, the Internet has evolved considerably as a communications platform, offering people innovative means for keeping in touch and sharing knowledge instantly with others across the Blogs and wikis, which enable folks to broadcast their thoughts to the Web at large and to collaborate on documents, [...]

Business Writing for Idioms There’s a kind of idiom that can cause problems. This kind of idiom means “the characteristic ways in which a language says things.” Every language on the planet has its own ways of saying certain things; when transferred to other languages, these “ways of saying things” sound downright weird. In English, for instance, we [...]

The Lazy Person’s Guide to Online Competitive Research Discovering who is linking to a site and clicking to read the associated commentary is a great competitive research technique . . . Read the original story here If the above link is broken, view our cached copy instead.

Research from McKinsey Reveals the Importance Organizations Place on Change Communication Research from McKinsey reveals that clear and creative leadership communication around company objectives is a fundamental component for successful organizational change. Read the original story here If the above link is broken, view our cached copy instead.