{"id":61,"date":"2025-07-23T19:18:36","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T19:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/libraryresources.nse.org.ng\/professionalandtechnicalcommunication\/chapter\/1-12-discussion\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T14:19:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T14:19:25","slug":"1-12-discussion","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/libraryresources.nse.org.ng\/professionalandtechnicalcommunication\/chapter\/1-12-discussion\/","title":{"raw":"2.12 Discussion","rendered":"2.12 Discussion"},"content":{"raw":"<div class=\"1.12-discussion\">\n<div class=\"textbox textbox--exercises\"><header class=\"textbox__header\">\n<h2 class=\"textbox__title;\" style=\"font-size: 1.4242em;\"><em>2.12 Discussion<\/em><\/h2>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"textbox__content\">\n<ul>\n \t<li>Think of someone who exemplifies everything you aspire to be in terms of their good behavior in the workplace. List the qualities and actions that make them such a good, well-liked model for behavior.<\/li>\n \t<li>Think of someone who exemplifies everything you aspire to avoid in terms of their misconduct in the workplace. List the qualities and typical misbehavior that make them so unlikable.<\/li>\n \t<li>Discuss a time in which you experienced effective and ineffective interpersonal communication in your personal or professional life. Discuss what could have improved the interaction.<\/li>\n \t<li>What are the verbal and nonverbal signs for a professional individual indicating that they do not have time, or they have possibly lost interest in the conversation?<\/li>\n \t<li>Introduce yourself to a new coworker via telephone call. What type of professional information would you incorporate?<\/li>\n \t<li>Introduce yourself to a supervisor in person. What type of professional information would you incorporate?<\/li>\n \t<li>You are introduced to a new hire who will be your partner in multiple projects. You are not sure about how to pronounce their name. What will you do to resolve this issue?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"import-Normal\">The first two exercise items are derived from <a href=\"https:\/\/pressbooks.senecapolytechnic.ca\/buscomm\/\">Communication @ Work<\/a> Copyright \u00a9 2019 by Jordan Smith available licensed under a\u00a0<a class=\"rId44\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/\"><span class=\"import-Hyperlink\">Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License<\/span><\/a>, except where otherwise noted.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>","rendered":"<div class=\"1.12-discussion\">\n<div class=\"textbox textbox--exercises\">\n<header class=\"textbox__header\">\n<h2 class=\"textbox__title;\" style=\"font-size: 1.4242em;\"><em>2.12 Discussion<\/em><\/h2>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"textbox__content\">\n<ul>\n<li>Think of someone who exemplifies everything you aspire to be in terms of their good behavior in the workplace. List the qualities and actions that make them such a good, well-liked model for behavior.<\/li>\n<li>Think of someone who exemplifies everything you aspire to avoid in terms of their misconduct in the workplace. List the qualities and typical misbehavior that make them so unlikable.<\/li>\n<li>Discuss a time in which you experienced effective and ineffective interpersonal communication in your personal or professional life. Discuss what could have improved the interaction.<\/li>\n<li>What are the verbal and nonverbal signs for a professional individual indicating that they do not have time, or they have possibly lost interest in the conversation?<\/li>\n<li>Introduce yourself to a new coworker via telephone call. What type of professional information would you incorporate?<\/li>\n<li>Introduce yourself to a supervisor in person. What type of professional information would you incorporate?<\/li>\n<li>You are introduced to a new hire who will be your partner in multiple projects. You are not sure about how to pronounce their name. What will you do to resolve this issue?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"import-Normal\">The first two exercise items are derived from <a href=\"https:\/\/pressbooks.senecapolytechnic.ca\/buscomm\/\">Communication @ Work<\/a> Copyright \u00a9 2019 by Jordan Smith available licensed under a\u00a0<a class=\"rId44\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/\"><span class=\"import-Hyperlink\">Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License<\/span><\/a>, except where otherwise noted.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"menu_order":12,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-61","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":37,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryresources.nse.org.ng\/professionalandtechnicalcommunication\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/61","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryresources.nse.org.ng\/professionalandtechnicalcommunication\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryresources.nse.org.ng\/professionalandtechnicalcommunication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryresources.nse.org.ng\/professionalandtechnicalcommunication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/libraryresources.nse.org.ng\/professionalandtechnicalcommunication\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/61\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62,"href":"https:\/\/libraryresources.nse.org.ng\/professionalandtechnicalcommunication\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/61\/revisions\/62"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryresources.nse.org.ng\/professionalandtechnicalcommunication\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/37"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryresources.nse.org.ng\/professionalandtechnicalcommunication\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/61\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryresources.nse.org.ng\/professionalandtechnicalcommunication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryresources.nse.org.ng\/professionalandtechnicalcommunication\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=61"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryresources.nse.org.ng\/professionalandtechnicalcommunication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=61"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryresources.nse.org.ng\/professionalandtechnicalcommunication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}