COMM 101 week 3-6 Flashcards
Pathway to sucess steps (9)
Pathway to success:
1) Attend every class
2) Br organized
3) Manage your time well
4) Be successful in the classroom
5) Take good notes
6) How to read a textbook
7) Study smart
8) Use test making strategies
9) Reduce test anxiety
Six Steps to Managing Work
Sort What you need to do:
- Step #1: Sorts your Hats. Hat = priority
- Step #2: identify Top priorities
- Step #3: clarify the ‘work’
Be purposeful in ‘getting it done’
- Step #4: improve planning
- Step #5: be present
- Step #6: prepare for slips
prepare for slips:
Small Slips: Days/weeks that get off track and distractions that are hard to ignore.
What can you do to recover?
* Check in with yourself. Daily or every Monday morning
– How am I doing on my priorities? What am I doing well? What do I want to
improve today (or this week)
* Keep people informed so your slips don’t impact them
– Big Slips: Recognizing your are not going to achieve your priority. What can you do
to recover?
* Re-frame adversity and tap into the growth mindset opportunity
* Adjust expectations - let people know so others can adjust
* Adjust your priority - perhaps that isn’t actually your priority, perhaps there is
something else that is more important
Step #6: Plan for Recovery
Why do people procrastinate?
The student syndrome is a phenomenon where people delay doing things until right before the deadline. For example, a student who postpones working on an assignment until the night before it’s due is displaying the student syndrome.
How to avoid student sydnome:
Improve your planning:
* Set concrete goals for youself
* Break your tasks into small and managebale stes
* Identify your productivtity cycles
Improve your environment:
Change your environment to make it harder for yourself to procrastinate
Change your envirment to make it easier for yourself to get started
Change your approach:
Start with a tiny step
Start with the best or worst part first
Increase your motivation:
Make your progress feel more rewarding
Change your mindset
PASS MODEL
Identify the PURPOSE
Know the AUDIENCE
Choose the STRATEGY
Create a STRUCTURE
Comunication textbook
Plan
Organize
research
In conclusion
4A model
Attention, agenda, Argument, Action
ATTENTION
Why should your audience spend precious
time and attention on your message? This is
the first question you must answer. Hook your
audience
AGENDA
An old public-speaking tip states that you
should “tell ‘em what you’re gonna tell ‘em”
at the beginning of a speech. This concept is
crucial to business communication. Your
agenda previews the body of your message—
usually in one sentence—and prepares the
reader for the main points you’re going to
make.`
ARGUMENT
Your argument is the meat of your message.
It includes your main points supported by
solid evidence and logic. Keep in mind the
Rule of Three and keep your argument simple
and memorable by not exceeding three
supporting points
ACTION
Business communication often ends with a
call to action. Your closing should not only
summarize but also identify next steps (if
appropriate), letting your audience know
what you’d like them to do based on the
information you’ve shared
The structure of a soild introduction
A solid hook + brief problem overview + introduces team and purpose
CMAPP model
Context, Message, Audience, Purpose, Product
Recommednation strcuture
Recommednation (what,who,when,where,)
then Anslysis (why?) a
then present case (How?)
Short term questions how to answer
Use the ICE Framework for Short Answer
Questions
I – IDEA
* this is the “what”
* What does this concept mean?
* Define the concept being discussed in context of this class and your experience as a
student
C – CONNECTION
* this is the “how”
* How does this concept connect to the question being asked? To me, the world, and to
others?
E – EXTENSION
* this is the “why”
* Why is this idea important?
* Draw in additional course concepts here
