Optimizing Millennials’ Communication Styles
- 23 February 2011
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Business Communication Quarterly
- Vol. 74 (1), 22-44
- https://doi.org/10.1177/1080569910395564
Abstract
Millennials, those individuals born between 1980 and 2000, compose the largest cohort of college students in the United States. Stereotypical views of millennials characterize them as technologically sophisticated multitaskers, capable of significant contributions to tomorrow’s organizations, yet deficient in communication skills. This article offers insights for business educators to help millennials understand the influence of communication styles when optimizing communication effectiveness. Developing style-typing and style-flexing skills can serve as building blocks for millennials’ subsequent interpersonal skill development in key areas such as audience analysis, active listening, conflict management and negotiation, and effective team building. An in-class exercise highlighting communication style-typing and style-flexing is included.Keywords
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