managing teams and methods of communication

This week you have learned about managing teams and methods of communication. To demonstrate how teams and effective communication are applied in the workplace, this week’s discussion forum will involve researching an article using one of the following sources:

• USA Today (www.usatoday.com)

• Wall Street Journal (www.wsj.com)

• New Your Times (www.nytimes.com)

• Forbes (www.forbes.com)

• Bloomberg Business Week (www.bloomberg.com)

• Inc. Magazine (www.inc.com)

• Economist (www.economist.com)

• Entrepreneur (www.entrepreneur.com)

• Harvard Business Review- (www.hbr.org)

Your task is to choose a current article (published in last 60 days) from one of the above-listed sources that relate to how managers develop teams and/or communicate as part of their responsibilities.

• What type of communication is most effective when managing/leading teams? If communication is all that important, why is it that managers still struggle with it?

• What key points in the article support your statements?

Copy and paste the URL address of the article so it can be easily shared with your classmates.