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ASSIGNMENT DESCRIPTION
The purpose of this assignment is to demonstrate your understanding of best practices when preparing for various communication situations with different health care stakeholders. This assignment provides an overview of different types of communication you will learn in this course and encounter in your health care leadership career.
YOU ARE A MANAGER
You are the Manager for a Public Health Division and it is your responsibility to communicate changes and updates regarding various business processes, staff roles, and news releases.
In this assignment, you are being evaluated on your ability to recognize benefits, potential problems, and best practices when it comes to a variety of different communication types.
This assignment is worth 30% of the final grade.
MATERIALS AND RESOURCES
Textbook and Lectures:
Communicating for Results: A Canadian Students Guide by Carolyn Meyer
Publisher: Oxford University Press Edition: 5th Edition
ISBN: 9780199036127
2020, eText ISBN: 9780199036226
ASSIGNMENT INSTRUCTIONS
For each situation, complete the short answer questions that follow, directly in this document. When you have completed the full assignment, upload the DOCX file to this
Assignment Submission Folder.
Please ensure that you provide APA citations. Please add a reference page at the end.
TEAM HUDDLE
You need to prepare for a team huddle with your team. There has been some upsetting news that you need to communicate to your team. A team member has been in an accident and is critically injured.
1. Describe one benefit related to this communication type. (1)
• 2. Describe a challenge you could encounter in a team huddle regarding this situation. (1)
• 3. How would you prepare for a successful team huddle in this situation? (1)
• SOCIAL MEDIA COMMUNICATION
You need to prepare a communication to patients and their families using social media. You decide to do a “Twitter push”. You need to ensure that hospital updates are communicated in a timely manner.
4. Describe four benefits related to this communication type. (4)
• • • • 5. Describe four challenges you could encounter in a social media post regarding this situation. (4)
• • • • 6. How would you prepare for a successful social media post in this situation? (1)
• BLOG POST
You need to prepare a blog with the goal of influencing funders. There is going to be a fundraising event coming up and you need to emphasize the importance of your not-for-profit organization to funders. You are going to use the blog to do this.
7. Describe three benefits related to this communication type. (3)
• • • 8. Describe two challenges you could encounter in a blog post regarding this situation. (2)
• • 9. How would you prepare for a successful blog post in this situation?
Please address three points from your lectures. (3)
• • • INTERNAL ANNOUNCEMENT
You need to prepare a communication for the intranet of your agency. The purpose is to announce the success of your recent nutrition initiative with the local board of education.
10. Describe one benefit related to this communication type. (1)
• 11. Describe a challenge you could encounter in an internal announcement regarding this situation. (1)
• 12. How would you prepare for a successful internal announcement in this situation? (1)
• ELECTRONIC NEWSLETTER
You need to prepare an electronic newsletter to update external partners. You have been working with your partners on improving the eating environment in their agencies. The newsletter will highlight what has been done.
13. Describe one benefit related to this communication type. (1)
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14. Describe a challenge you could encounter in developing a newsletter for this situation. (1)
• 15. How would you prepare for a successful newsletter in this situation? (1)
• EMAIL FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES
As the manager of a team, you will write email messages for specific
purposes on a regular basis for a variety of different audiences and in a variety of different contexts.
17. Describe three best practices for formatting and writing emails for specific purposes. (3)
• • • 18. Why does proper email etiquette maximize readability and reader-responsiveness? (1)
• Please make word document file format and provide refrences and must be follow apa format and looks like written by new English lerner