The New World of Business Communication

Excellence in Business Communication takes a close look at the fundamental skills and principles of business communication. Featuring practical advice, time-tested processes, and real-world examples, Excellence is the premier text for helping you hone and develop essential communication skills. The 14th Edition continues to set new standards for currency and innovation. The authors performed extensive research to ensure up-to-date coverage of diversity, equity, and inclusion in communication skills, innovative technology usage, and contemporary business practices. To learn more and request a free examination copy of this text, visit this ordering page,

 

 

Using Generative AI (GenAI) on the Job

Generative AI tools such as ChatGPT and Gemini are transforming the ways people create content on the job, from simple email messages to presentations and reports. While the tools get more powerful seemingly every day, they are not foolproof or without risks. GenAI is a deep and evolving topic, so the details vary from tool to tool and will keep changing over time. However, there are some fundamental ideas for using any GenAI tool efficiently, effectively, and ethically.

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Handling Difficult Conversations

All business professionals eventually find themselves in situations where they need to have difficult and sometimes unwelcome conversations. This might involve giving an employee a negative performance evaluation, explaining to your boss why a project you’ve been assigned is unworkable, or simply trying to smooth things over with a colleague. These conversations are challenging because they can involve emotions, egos, and legitimate conflicts with differing points of view.

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Resolving Workplace Conflicts

Conflict is inevitable in business as people with differing ideas, priorities, and personalities are expected to work toward common goals. It can even be helpful when it generates new ideas and new solutions to business challenges. But conflict often hampers productivity and hinders working relationships, so conflict resolution is an important skill for all professionals.

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What’s Disrupting Business Communication? Your Students Are Holding It in Their Hands

The great challenge of teaching a contemporary business communication course is helping students develop solid communication skills that are compatible with today’s business needs.

Writing, speaking, and listening skills are as vital as ever, but those skills have to be put to use in an environment that has been disrupted by waves of game-changing technologies in recent years.

One of the most disruptive changes to ever hit the field of business communication is taking place right now—and in fact, your students are probably holding it in their hands this minute.

That change is mobile communication, and forward-thinking companies are adopting mobile because it helps them work more productively and forge closer bonds with stakeholders.

Many companies find a need to embrace mobile for the simple reason that their customers and employees already have. You can’t communicate with people if you can’t connect with them, and that connection is increasingly made by way of mobile.

And, keep in mind that only Bovee and Thill’s business communication textbooks cover mobile business communication.

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How You Should Prepare Students for the Mobile Shift in Business Communication

With mobile devices becoming mainstream in business communication, the challenge for those of us in education is to help students adapt their writing skills to this exciting but demanding new format.
 
The latest editions of Bovée and Thill’s business communication textbooks offer extensive coverage of mobile communication, with numerous features to help you and your students.
 
Mobile devices are becoming deeply integrated in business, and it’s essential for students to get a current view of professional communication practices.
 
Only our textbooks offer the in-depth coverage of mobile concepts and hands-on activities that will help students adapt their personal use of mobile devices to the unique requirements of business communication. Major additions include
 
The Mobile Revolution
The Rise of Mobile as a Communication Platform
How Mobile Technologies Are Changing Business Communication
Collaboration via Mobile Devices Business Etiquette Using Mobile Devices
The Unique Challenges of Communication on Mobile Devices
Writing Messages for Mobile Devices
Designing Messages for Mobile Devices
Optimizing Content for Mobile Devices
Visual Media on Mobile Devices
Creating Promotional Messages for Mobile Devices
Research on the Go with Mobile Devices
Integrating Mobile Devices in Presentations
Job Search Strategies: Maximize Your Mobile
 
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Have You Prepared Your Business Communication Students for a Mobile Job Search?

As companies continue to adapt mobile communication throughout the enterprise, one area with immediate concern for students is the job search process.
 
Companies know that today’s job hunters are a mobile crowd—and many companies want to make their recruiters more productive by making them mobile-enabled as well.

Perhaps no other aspect of business communication is changing as rapidly as employment communication. Only a few years ago, candidates mailed in paper résumés that were perused one at a time or optically scanned.

Today, most medium and large companies require candidates to apply online, where their qualifications are often auto-filtered by applicant tracking systems.

And now that online process is expanding to mobile, as more companies create mobile-friendly recruiting websites and career apps for mobile devices.

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Can Your Students Write Professionally for Mobile Audiences?

As mobile devices go mainstream in business communication, they create new writing challenges for professionals at all levels.
The need to write clear and compelling messages is as strong as ever, but now these messages need to be crafted for an increasingly mobile audience.

The latest editions from Bovée and Thill are the first major business communication textbooks to address this shift in the business environment, and they offer in-depth advice and practice opportunities for students.

Coverage of mobile communication challenges is woven throughout these new editions to help students apply the concepts of effective communication to the full range of contemporary business situations.

A set of annotated model documents, for example, illustrates the challenges of using conventional writing approaches in a mobile environment.

Students can clearly see that a writing approach that works well in print or on full screens creates a host of problems for mobile readers.

In addition to emphasizing tight, linear writing, the Bovée and Thill texts offer essential advice for designing and formatting mobile messages.

Students will see the difference these design choices make for reading comprehension and audience satisfaction.

Mobile presents challenges, but it also creates exciting opportunities for entrepreneurs, managers, and others who need to connect with mobile audiences.

Bovée and Thill help students adapt their personal experience with smartphones and tablets to the fast-moving world of mobile business.

The latest editions of Bovee and Thill's textbooks will give your students ample opportunity to develop writing skills for the mobile business environment.

New features include

•  Two dozen model documents, photos, and screenshots that illustrate mobile communication concepts

•  New end-of-chapter questions and activities that focus on mobile communication

•  And a selection of communication cases that challenge students to craft messages for mobile devices

To learn more, visit the Bovée and Thill website, where you can request examination copies and read a variety of articles on mobile communication and other leading-edge topics.

Also, check out Bovee & Thill’s online magazine: How the Mobile Revolution Is Changing Business Communication. You’ll find a link to it on Bovee & Thill’s Business Communication Blog under “Bovee & Thill’s Online Magazines.”

Your students are racing toward a mobile future.  Don’t let an obsolete textbook hold them back.

Importantly, keep in mind that you’ll only find mobile business communication in Bovee and Thill’s business communication textbooks.

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