Social and Communication Styles

Complete the Communicate Like a Pro: Know Your Style and Communicate Like a Pro: Flex Your Voice activities. In 23 pages:

• Briefly compare the four primary communication styles (passive, aggressive, passive-aggressive, and assertive). Do you tend to gravitate toward one of these more frequently?
• Discuss your preferred social style and how it impacts your communication with others.
• Further research your preferred social style. What are some strategies for maintaining assertive communication?
• Identify 23 potential business scenarios that you may have previously experienced or may potentially find yourself in. Create a plan to avoid potential breakdowns in communication and ensure that communication is as clear, effective, and assertive as possible. How may you benefit from adapting your social style in each situation?
• Create an infographic that explains your preferred social style and how this impacts your approach to successful, professional communication with others including those whose preferred social style is different from your own.
• Save the infographic in whatever image format you like.

By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and scoring guide criteria:

• Competency 1: Analyze business communication situations.
• Compare four communication styles.
• Competency 2: Apply fundamental principles of organizational communication.
• Discuss business scenarios in which each of the social and communication styles would be appropriate to use.
• Competency 3: Analyze the interrelationships of communication within organizational systems.
• Create an infographic explaining a social style.
• Competency 5: Communicate effectively and professionally.
• Address assessment purpose in a well-organized text, incorporating appropriate evidence and tone in grammatically sound sentences.
• Apply APA formatting to in-text citations and references.