08 Oct Business Communications

Business Communications

In this Module’s Engagement Activity #1 you should have reintroduced yourselves to one another and formed a team.

 

If you did not form a team by deadline, I would have formed a team for you by now. This may have resulted in being added to a team with others who did not complete the activity, or being added to a team that was already formed.

 

Either way, you will now notice teams are now formed, with each classmate’s name designating each team’s members – and your space to work! Keep in mind you must pledge and maintain a commitment to your teammates to stick to the plan…

 

…that you should have made In Engagement Activity #2. Here, your goals were to:

 

Agree upon your team’s communication and time management plan

 

Designate who and how you will complete the weekly-step-summaries

 

Keep in mind, weekly-step-summaries demonstrate the team’s consensus for the steps due in any given week.

 

If you have not completed Engagement Activity #2, please do so now. Then, you are ready for the steps! And here are your first two:

 

STEP 1:

 

1.  Review the following three resources for some inspiration on how to solve problems with creative thinking:

 

12 Tips for Brainstorming More Creative Solutions (Links to an external site.) (article)

 

15 Ways to Inspire Creativity in Problem Solving (Links to an external site.) (article)

 

5 Most Unusual Ways People Solved Difficult Problems (Links to an external site.) (video)

 

 2.  Reflect on the problems and needs in your own community or in our world, and identify the problem or need you feel most excited to address.

 

You may want to do some research here, but please be sure to include properly formatted sources if you do. You can use www.citationmachine.net and choose APA.

 

 3.  Suggest a unique and creative product or service that solves the problem or fulfills the need you’ve identified. This will be what your “company” provides.

 

4.  Explain how your idea fills that need.

 

For example, the Snuggy fills the need to stay warm from head to toe while retaining motion – unlike a blanket, which falls and drags when you walk.

 

 STEP 2:

 

Be sure to answer all four questions.

 

Considering each teammate’s idea, which idea do you think your team should use?

 

According to your own vision of that idea, describe the product or service in detail.

 

What do you think your business should be called?

 

Use this source for help with naming: How To Create a Great Business Name. (Links to an external site.)

 

In your mind, who should be your target audience, and why?