3 Discussions ( min of 6 sentences required for each )
Your supervisor just announced that you and a colleague, Bruce, will have an opportunity to meet with the companys CEO in two hours to deliver a presentation on your teams current project. Due to the short notice, Bruce believes your presentation should be an impromptu speech, delivered without notes or plan. You believe your presentation should be written out word for word and read to the audience.
Under these circumstances, how would you use your relationship building skills to collaborate with Bruce and resolve your differences in opinion? Please select one option below and thoroughly explain why.
a. Communicate openly and effectively concerning your preference
b. Involve another colleague for his or her input
c. Trust Bruce and follow his suggestion
As workplaces shift to remote work, there is an increased need to utilize collaboration tools. In the first section of this course, you had the opportunity to reply to a message from a co-worker about the need to identify and adopt collaboration tools. At the end of this course, you will be delivering a presentation on a collaboration tool and persuading your organization to adopt it. To prepare for that presentation, answer the following question:
Select a category/type of collaboration tool from the three options below. Identify one collaboration tool from the category you’ve selected and describe how that tool can be used to support remote collaborative work. Then, list and thoroughly explain two pros and two cons of using this collaboration tool when working remotely.
1. Communication (Zoom, Webex, Teams)
2. Document creation and editing (Microsoft Word, Google Docs, One Drive)
3. Project Management (Smartsheets)
For the past two weeks, your department has been developing policy changes. During this time, your colleague was on vacation and did not participate in the process. When he returns, he doesnt agree with a number of items and wants them changed. Because the policy changes are due the next day, how do you approach this conflict? Select one of the approaches below and thoroughly explain why you selected this option and how you intend to use it.
a. Accommodation
b. Avoidance
c. Collaboration
