ERIC Number: EJ915790
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Publication Date: 2011-Mar
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Optimizing Millennials' Communication Styles
Hartman, Jackie L.; McCambridge, Jim
Business Communication Quarterly, v74 n1 p22-44 Mar 2011
Millennials, those individuals born between 1980 and 2000, compose the largest cohort of college students in the United States. Stereotypical views of millennials characterize them as technologically sophisticated multitaskers, capable of significant contributions to tomorrow's organizations, yet deficient in communication skills. This article offers insights for business educators to help millennials understand the influence of communication styles when optimizing communication effectiveness. Developing style-typing and style-flexing skills can serve as building blocks for millennials' subsequent interpersonal skill development in key areas such as audience analysis, active listening, conflict management and negotiation, and effective team building. An in-class exercise highlighting communication style-typing and style-flexing is included. (Contains 1 figure.)
Descriptors: Listening, Conflict, Team Training, Business Education Teachers, Audience Analysis, Communication Skills, Skill Development, Interpersonal Competence, College Students, Technological Literacy, Business Communication, Persuasive Discourse, Teamwork, Communication Strategies
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Higher Education
Audience: Teachers
Language: English
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