...character. The building is comprised of two restaurants a pub, which is located on the west side, and a Chinese restaurant located on the east side. It appears tiny in size, as does the parking area. There is beautiful green ivy intertwined on white lattice leading up to the front of the building. This ivy wall conceals a small, enclosed outside seating area for when the weather is nice. I then round the corner and a big, bright red door is waiting to welcome all who enter. The atmosphere inside is a drastic contrast to the outside. The walls vibrate with life! There is a line waiting just inside the door and the place is completely packed. There is so much chatter. One cannot detect a single conversation from another as they all blend as one massive, noisy conversation. As I entered, a polite young woman explained it would be a moment before a table is ready. The interior is huge, which is very deceiving from the exterior. Lighting is moderate yet comfortable and bright enough to read a menu and to see others easily. The back wall is comprised of the kitchen and a massive, beautiful wood bar. Not one bar stool is empty as it seats roughly 15 patrons. The pub is famous for its great burgers and what a better accompaniment then one of the 18 different brews on tap. The walls are a beautiful...
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...to follow. The opening scene starts with a greyish screen and only the diegetic sound of the waves, symbolizing perhaps being lost at sea with nothing but water surrounding you. We then hear the horn of a ship, followed by a long shot of the ship taking shape as it emerges from the fog. At the front of the ship we see a person standing alone facing the direction the ship is heading. This symbolizes that whomever it is, they are gaining clarity of what is to come. Cut to a medium shot, showing the interior of the boat where we see someone leaning over a toilet and hear them throwing up, meanwhile we also hear the rustling of the chains shown hanging in the forefront. Cut to an extreme close up of our main character looking into the mirror and saying to himself “pull yourself together Teddy, pull yourself together.” This scene wreaks of split personality disorder. This could have a parallel meaning that while “Teddy” is fighting with himself to regain control, it is making him sick. The use of the extreme close up is to give the audience a first person view and help them feel what he is feeling. Then a cutback to a close up, revealing his physical state of uneasiness is still apparent. Another extreme close up of “Teddy” looking out a small port window with him saying to himself “it’s just water, it’s a lot of water” symbolizes that he has a limited view of the...
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...Reflection paper 2 April 28th, 2014 From telling to talking The issues under discussion during the second session and in the accompanying readings revolved around stakeholder theory as an approach to executing corporate responsibility. This theory is based on company-centrality where various layers of the environment of the company are independently analyzed. In the context of this theory, a stakeholder is understood to be any actor with an explicit or implicit interest in the activities of the company. Actors that typically fall under this category are e.g. employees, owners, customers, the government and surrounding communities. As evidenced by the examples, the concept of stakeholder entails a wide array of internally divergent actors. According to the article stakeholder relation management can be viewed from two distinct vantage points. The first approach views stakeholder relation management as a strategic vehicle for furthering underlying aims of the company. The alternative approach views stakeholder relations management as an intrinsic value that should be furthered as a product of its own merits. The issue of effectively managing stakeholder relations has in recent years gained much more prominence and astute companies are in many cases turning to it as a means to increase customer retention/loyalty and thereby positively impact shareholder value. This kind of an approach would allude to the strategic view as the more prevalent vantage point for approaching stakeholder...
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...is to help you remember the conversations you had throughout day. Please feel free to record conversation details next to the corresponding topic below or record information on a separate sheet of paper. Please include face-to-face conversations as well as phone calls, emails, letters, blogs, online chats, instant messages, or any other communications. If a conversation falls into several topic areas, please record the conversation next to each topic that applies. Please try not to change your normal conversation pattern just because you are participating in this study. It doesn’t matter how many or how few conversations you have in these topic areas. Tomorrow you will receive an invitation to an online survey to collect this information. General topics | How many conversations by topic | List all companies or brands** mentioned by name | Automotive: Cars, trucks, auto parts, repair, services such as road-side assistance, navigation, etc. | | | Financial Services: Savings/investments, banking, credit cards, insurance of all kinds, money transfer, real estate, etc. | | | Health & Healthcare: Illnesses, drugs/pharmaceuticals, doctors, hospitals, treatments, diets, supplements, vision care/eye wear, etc. | | | Food & Dining: Packaged, fresh & frozen food, snacks, candy, gum, recipes, supermarkets, meal preparation, restaurants, restaurant chains, take-out, pet food, etc. | | | Beverages: Soft drinks, juices, water, coffee, tea, etc. ** If you...
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...the bombarding of conversation that is about to ensue. Just as I walk through the door a deep breath is taken. Finally I am ready for the various conversations my family will attempt to extract out of me, just as a dentist pulls teeth. Every day I experience difference’s in language between men and women. Conversations between each parental figure differ and provide concrete evidence about gender communication. As John Piece once stated “Communication is not only the essence of being human, but also a vital property of life.” As vital as water is to life, language flows in all different direction depending on its source. Humans use language to create a flow of conversation between each other in order to sustain relationships. Deborah Tannen writes there is a noteworthy variance between how men and women communicate. Rapport-talk is using language as a way of establishing connections and relationships with others (62). Since women are trying to establish relationships, they tend to speak more privately. Interacting with my mother at home provides an exact replica of how women chat at home. Walking through the door I am instantly greeted with a “how was your day?” Who will drop the whole kit and caboodle she’s doing at the moment. Evolving a football linebacker’s stance I prepare for a flurry of questions. One question after the other beating me senseless until I have nothing left to say, my mom continues to pursue a connection of interaction through conversation. Bless her soul...
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...well, make it beautiful again and sell it for a profit. When it comes to owning a business, so many people think they need to invent something and build it from the ground up. But, when you look at real estate, such few people do that and when it comes to business ownership, why don’t more people find existing businesses that just are weak or not doing well in an area that you are strong in, enter into that company and negotiate either an equity positon or profit split or both and say; hey, you suck at sales right now, you have a great concept. One of the software companies that I invest in, not to stereotype, but the guy has real thick glasses, he's super intellectual and hard to even have a conversation with because he is so deep, couldn’t sell anything. He couldn’t sell water to someone in the desert. I understand sales so I entered into that company to help boost and in exchange for my services, got an equity position and I had to give some cash too. ...
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...How ‘social intelligence’ can guide decisions By offering decision makers rich real-time data, social media is giving some companies fresh strategic insight. NOVEMBER 2012 • Martin Harrysson, Estelle Metayer, and Hugo Sarrazin Source: Business Technology Office In This Article * ------------------------------------------------- Exhibit 1: Social media is changing the old-school intelligence cycle. * ------------------------------------------------- Exhibit 2: An explosion in new analytical tools gives companies new ways to tap expertise. * ------------------------------------------------- About the authors * ------------------------------------------------- Comments (7) In many companies, marketers have been first movers in social media, tapping into it for insights on how consumers think and behave. As social technologies mature and organizations become convinced of their power, we believe they will take on a broader role: informing competitive strategy. In particular, social media should help companies overcome some limits of old-school intelligence gathering, which typically involves collecting information from a range of public and proprietary sources, distilling insights using time-tested analytic methods, and creating reports for internal company “clients” often “siloed” by function or business unit. Today, many people who have expert knowledge and shape perceptions about markets are freely exchanging data and viewpoints through social...
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...Reframing Paper We live by talking. We chatter and tattle and gossip and jest. But sometimes—more often than we’d like—we have stressful conversations, those sensitive exchanges that can hurt or haunt us in ways no other kind of talking does. Stressful conversations are unavoidable in life, and in business they can run the gamut from firing a subordinate to, curiously enough, receiving praise. But whatever the context, stressful conversations differ from other conversations because of the emotional loads they carry. These conversations call up embarrassment, confusion, anxiety, anger, pain, or fear—if not in us, then in our counterparts. Indeed, stressful conversations cause such anxiety that most people simply avoid them. This strategy is not necessarily wrong. One of the first rules of engagement, after all, is to pick your battles. Yet sometimes it can be extremely costly to dodge issues, appease difficult people, and smooth over antagonisms because the fact is that avoidance usually makes a problem or relationship worse.[1] I want share a stressful conversation I have met today. Here is my situation: this morning when I woke up and went to kitchen I saw my lovely red stockpot laying in the sink looks like a big coal ball. It drives me mad. Actually I know what happened because this already happened a lot of times. One of my roommates “G” burned it again! She almost has burned all of my kitchen wares including my stockpots, pan, pancake turners, and several other wares. Another...
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...messages using methods that cater for each of their needs. Logbook; Date | Who with? | Type of interaction | Subject | 3/9/14 | Brother | Oral, Verbal, Informal, 1:2:1 | Football Match | 3/9/14 | Grandmother | Verbal, Formal (phone call) | First day at college | 3/9/14 | Jess | Non-verbal, Informal (text) | Bus journey | 4/9/14 | Boss | Non-verbal, Formal (e-mail) | Weekend hours | 4/9/14 | Jess, Jess, Kirsty | Verbal, Informal, Group | Classwork | Task 1 P1; The first interaction I had was with my brother. This from the outset was clearly informal, as the slang and colloquialisms were used throughout. Although this interaction was one to one it was not as intense as some as we were both watching the football match and the conversation was second thought. Our body language was very relaxed, both of us were slouched on the sofa zoned into the TV; there was no eye contact until ‘half-time’ when we could afford to not be watching the TV. The communication in this interaction was successful as we both got the point we wanted to get across to each other clearly and effectively. The second interaction I had was with my Grandmother. This interaction was very different to my first as not only was it much for formal but also it was over the phone, so I had to take into consideration how quickly she...
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...t he fine art of small talk How to Start a Conversation, Keep It Going, Build Networking Skills— and Leave a Positive Impression! new york To Jared Fine Holst and Sarah Fine Holst, my inspiration and motivation. And the gentle wind beneath my wings, Steve Tilliss. C ontents Preface ix chapter 1 What’s the Big Deal About Small Talk? 1 chapter 2 Get Over Your Mom’s Good Intentions 12 chapter 3 Take the Plunge: Start a Conversation! 27 chapter 4 Keep the Conversation Going! 37 chapter 5 Let’s Give ’Em Something to Talk About 49 chapter 6 Hearing Aids and Listening Devices 66 viii . contents c hapter 7 Prevent Pregnant Pauses with Preparation 84 chapter 8 Conversational Clout 108 chapter 9 Crimes and Misdemeanors 114 chapter 10 The Graceful Exit 139 chapter 11 The Conversational Ball Is in Your Court! 154 chapter 12 Make the Most of Networking Events! 159 chapter 13 Surviving the Singles Scene 165 chapter 14 Feel-Good Factor 185 chapter 15 Holiday Party Savvy 192 chapter 16 Carpe Diem 195 Acknowledgments 201 Preface W hen I first got into the business of helping people cultivate conversation skills, I ran into a lot of skepticism. Invariably, executives would scoff at the idea of a housewife’s trivial initiative to overcome boredom. Then I would get clandestine calls for assistance from folks with prestigious titles...
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...employees complained to HR because her schedule was changed by Wendy to accommodate the needs of the department, her argument was that the previous supervisors were able to give her a set schedule and keep with the needs of the department. The employee also states that maybe Wendy did not know how to do her job. Wendy was met with quite the dilemma, so the first thing she did was seek the assistance of her Manager, she discussed the situation with him and was able to practice her conversation that she would have to have with this employee on him. Wendy called the employee into her office and explained to her the reasons for the schedule change, she offered no excuse for the way previous Supervisors did their schedules, and she remained calm even though the employee was irate and threatening to terminate her own employment unless she can get her old schedule. At the end of the conversation the employee understood the need for the change, however not happy about it. Two weeks following the conversation the employee had begun an active search...
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...Leadership Is a Conversation by Boris Groysberg and Michael Slind The command-and-control approach to management has in recent years become less and less viable. Globalization, new technologies, and changes in how companies create value and interact with customers have sharply reduced the efficacy of a purely directive, top-down model of leadership. What will take the place of that model? Part of the answer lies in how leaders manage communication within their organizations—that is, how they handle the flow of information to, from, and among their employees. Traditional corporate communication must give way to a process that is more dynamic and more sophisticated. Most important, that process must be conversational. We arrived at that conclusion while conducting a recent research project that focused on the state of organizational communication in the 21st century. Over more than two years we interviewed professional communicators as well as top leaders at a variety of organizations—large and small, blue chip and start-up, for-profit and nonprofit, U.S. and international. To date we have spoken with nearly 150 people at more than 100 companies. Both implicitly and explicitly, participants in our research mentioned their efforts to “have a conversation” with their people or their ambition to “advance the conversation” within their companies. Building upon the insights and examples gleaned from this research, we have developed a model of leadership that we call “organizational...
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...interactive website leading to discussion forums and chat rooms, where the action really takes place. Call it a behind the scenes look at Tribes. Teams are put together, players are taught and assisted, and even more so, long-lasting friendships are made. I studied the discussion forums of Tribalwar.com and continually entered the Tribal war chat room hosted by the server irc.dynamix.com for a period of two weeks. I found an online community full of life constantly being infested with anything from small talk to serious gaming talk. In the article “Log on and Shoot,” Katie Hafner discusses online gaming becoming a sort of addiction. She claims it is turning into a “virtual party” and that oftentimes the game becomes the underdog when conversation takes over (Hafner 75). And this, Hafner says, is the kind of stuff that gaming networks want. They want to have the it takes to create an online type of community for gamers in order to keep their clients and players devoted (Hafner 75). T ribalwar.com states that the “Most users ever online was 212 on 09-23-2002 at 04:20 AM” (tribalwar.com). Take note of the time. With that many people actively using tribalwar.com in the early hours of the AM, it is only plausible that every time I read the discussion forums there were never less than 150 members and guests currently active. Every post had responses. MIRC is the program in which the Tribes...
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...Build Trust- *Acknowledge feelings-emotional response* -Never pretend they don’t show -If you ignore your own or the other parties emotional response to that of another you damage trust between both. -Accept Criticism- Constructive criticism is key between both parties. -Evaluate its merit -Choose to *ignore it, follow it or take issue with it -Acknowledgement- *Difficult Conversations* -Require Trust- -constructive criticism -Safety – view as threat (communication not working, must revise approach) -respect -Acknowledgement -Requires Mutual Interest- -Common ground -Win-Win -Relate to other party(s) of the conversation (stay open-minded) *Exchange of information by 2 or more parties through a medium of transmittal such as writing, speaking, or signing. -pay attention to other party -If other party is withdrawing or starts to verbally attack you, communication is not effective at the moment you may need to revise approach… -Thinking of how you would feel in the same situation…Listen to how they feel and watch them. Ask yourself if they are withdrawing from the conversation revise the approach before it gets that far. -Trust – Sense of safe space -Communication- - 3 types of communication- Verbal – expressed in spoken or written language Non-Verbal – does not rely on the written or spoken word. *Virtual- Synchronous – takes place in real time simultaneous...
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...|Question about New Classroom Interactivity |Your Answers | |Why is it important for you to check your |It is very important to check your Gmail account because there may be an important | |Gmail® account regularly as a student? |update to the site or classroom that could affect you doing or viewing your | | |coursework. | |What is the difference between the activity| The activity stream is an overview of everything that is has happen with your | |stream and Classroom Discussion? |peers and helps you keep track of where the topic of conversation is at with your | | |classmates and instructor. The classroom discussion is the actual discussion of the| | |classroom. | |How do you respond to Learning Activities? | To submit any assignment you click on your due assignment and then click on the | |How do you attach and submit assignment |assignment files. Then you upload and then submit your paper. If you decide to | |files? |engage in the learning activities then there is a discussion option so you could | | |talk about the learning...
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