Breaking the Barriers Improving Communication Skills :
Breaking the Barriers: Improving Communication Skills
● Communication Model Overview
● Real-World Simulations
● Interactive Exercises and Quizzes
● Printable Content
● Electronic Teacher’s Guide
● Correlates with National Language Arts Curriculum and National Business Education Standards
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● Communication Model Overview
● Real-World Simulations
● Interactive Exercises and Quizzes
● Printable Content
● Electronic Teacher’s Guide
● Correlates with National Language Arts Curriculum and National Business Education Standards
Whether at school, in the workplace, or at home, clear communication is vital to…well, everything. But it’s not always easy to say what you mean or to get others to understand what you meant. How does miscommunication happen, and how can it be avoided? This eye-opening two-CD-ROM set exposes the entire range of communication barriers while providing users with an opportunity to apply what they learn through interactive video scenarios of real-world workplace situations.
Multimedia elements combine to introduce key learning points, while video role-plays, exercises, and quizzes test user comprehension and reinforce communication dos and don’ts. "Did You Know?" facts, a pop-up glossary, a hyperlinked index, and a list of Web sites and other resources are also included, as well as a printable teacher’s guide containing learning objectives, a program summary, educational standards, fast facts, vocabulary terms, discussion questions, student activities, assessment questions, and a list of additional resources.
Communication Barrier Basics
By clearly distinguishing the three components of communication—the sender, the receiver, and the message itself—this CD-ROM tutorial exposes the potential pitfalls of spoken, written, and visual communication. In addition to a wide variety of basic issues, such as talking too fast, writing imprecisely, and not paying attention, many subtle issues are also addressed, like cultural insensitivity, negative body language, bad timing, choosing the wrong medium, and jumping to conclusions. Material on each topic is printable.
Can You Break the Barrier?
This CD-ROM contains five interactive video scenarios that allow users to apply what they learn from Communication Barrier Basics to realistic communication situations in the workplace. By answering questions about how to eliminate communication barriers, users influence the progress and outcome of each role-play scenario. In addition, immediate feedback is given on the specific barriers and the choices made, to reinforce the application of good communication principles.
As versatile as it is valuable, this two-CD-ROM set can easily be integrated into any high school business education, career education, life skills, or communication course. College students—and, for that matter, any adults who just want to communicate more effectively—can benefit from this program, too.
A Cambridge Educational Production.
Two Windows/Macintosh hybrid CD-ROMs and a printable teacher’s guide. © 2003.