Post 2 - Delivering Bad News

Delivering Bad News Tactfully and effectively

By Jack Eaton

  

            Being the person in charge is not always an easy task, especially when there is bad news and/or an ultimatum to deliver.  Delivering bad news or an ultimatum can be very difficult.  How we deal with difficult communication situations is an important task.  It definitely takes more thought and preparation to deal with this kind of situation.  Our performance as leaders in difficult situations will always have a large impact on your overall job performance.  When communication succeeds, the organization is likely to be effective and efficient and workers satisfied and committed.  When it fails, both the organization and the individual members suffer (Trenholm, 2011).  This is why delivering bad news is an important aspect of communication within an organization.  The case study provided allows us to deliver bad news tactfully and effectively.

Post 1 - Media Technology

Media Technology

By Jack R. Eaton

February 29, 2016

Media Technology

          There are all different types of media technologies that we use in the world today.  They are important because it is how we receive information.  Even though some of these are not as prevalent as they once were, all of them are incredibly valuable sources of information in the right circumstance, and it is important that we, the information seeking public, understand that.  In recent years old media has given way to new media.  The term old media refers to traditional one-to-many forms of mediated communication such as print, radio, and television, and the label new media is used to describe digital information and technology systems, including networked computing and mobile telecommunication (Trenholm, 2011).  There are basically four ways in which everyone in the world is capable of receiving mass information.  They are print, radio, television, and the internet.