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Civil Discourse: Becoming a Better Conversation Partner
The coronavirus pandemic has changed the way we communicate in our families, our professions, and our communities. Although some of these changes are positive, including the...
View TakeawaysCommunicating Across Cultures
Whether you are operating a global business or working within a highly diverse American workplace, effective intercultural communication skills are critical. In this lecture, you...
View TakeawaysCivil Discourse: What is the Role of Business to Reduce Polarization in Our Society?
Over the past decade, two trends have collided: Polarization in our society has steadily increased in its breadth and severity, and business leaders have been asked to take a more...
View EventCivil Discourse: The Freedom to Listen
Beyond recognizing the inherent importance of public discourse to democracy, a reckoning must be made that listening itself constitutes discourse as much as does speech — that...
View EventCivil Discourse: (In)civilities
Survival for marginalized folks requires communication skills and understanding power dynamics in ways that often result in polite and/or civil discourse. This final session in...
View EventCommunicating Across Cultures – An Introduction to Communicating Across Cultures
In this section of the course, you’ll meet the faculty who teach and conduct research in this discipline. And you’ll have a look at what it means to live and work in an...
View EventCommunicating Across Cultures – Understanding Culture
To understand culture is really to understand ourselves. We have commonly used this term to describe all that people have, think, and do as members of their society. While a...
View EventCommunicating Across Cultures – How Culture Functions and Why It Changes
Culture wouldn’t exist if it didn’t provide some value to those who adopt and live it. The fractious nature of individual and group preferences, however, along with the rate...
View EventCommunicating Across Cultures – Applying What We Know About Culture
Every culture we are a part of, whether national, trans-national or, perhaps organizational, has values and beliefs that drive expectations and set boundaries for its members....
View EventManaging Communications in a Continuing Crisis
Corporate communications expert James S. O’Rourke, professor of management at the University of Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business, discusses managing communications...
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