Five Organizations for the Communcations Professional

When I started the research for Communication Professionals, I was astounded by the mass of choices there are in this particular field of professionals. It is very interesting how many different branches off this profession of choice is. Here are the five that I found the most interesting:

Media Communications Association – International / mca-i

The American Heritage Dictionary defines Media (or medium) as “an intervening substance through which something else is transmitted” as well as “a means of expression as determined by the materials of the creative methods involved.” Communication is “the exchange of thoughts, messages or information.”

As a MCA-I member, they provide the vital connection between the creative methods and the “intervening substance” (a.k.a. technology) (Media, n.d.).

Communication Professionals / CPGP

Due to an increasing demand for services to accompany our myriad products, in 2006 CPI began its service division with an emphasis on design and implementation. Organically, CPI has built a reputation for being a strong ally for our clients, a reputable partner to our peers, and a competitive company  
                                                to our competition (CPGP, 2013).

National Communication Association / NCA

The National Communication Association advances communication as the discipline that studies all forms, modes, media and consequences of communication through humanistic, social scientific and aesthetic inquiry (NCA, 2014).

The members of the NCA are served as scholars, teachers, as well as practitioners are strongly encouraged to support their professional interests in research and teaching. The NCA promotes the widespread appreciation of the importance of communication in public and private life, the application of competent communication to improve the quality of human life and relationships, and the use of knowledge about communication to solve human problems (NCA, 2014).

Commissions on Public Relations Education / CPRE

The largest pre-professional organization, the Public Relations Student Society of America (PRSSA), offers membership or affiliate membership through collegiate chapters for public relations students. Many other professional organizations offer student memberships and have student chapters to aid in public relations students’ professional development (CPRE, 2013).

The Association for Women in Communications / WOMCOM

It is good to know that there are organizations that are geared towards women in the communication field. This type of field work has a person working in print, broadcast journalism, television & radio production, film advertising, public relations and broadcast journalism, television and radio production, film, advertising, public relations, marketing, graphic design, multi-media design, and photography. Being part of this organization will allow you to stay current within the industry, pursue new job leads through their job board, and take advantage of partner savings (WomCom, 2014).

I believe that The Association for Women in Communications is a place that I could sink my teeth into in order to learn what I can in communications. If I worked for this company, I would feel as though I would be needed by a lot of people so I believe that this would be the association for my.

References

Commissions on Public Relations Education (CPRE) (2013). Public Relation Education for the 21^st Century. Retrieved on May 16, 2014 from http://www.commpred.org/theprofessionalbond/organizations.php

Communication Professionals (CPGP) (2013). Retrieved on May 16, 2014 from http://cpgp.com/

Media Communications Association – International (MCA-I) (n.d.). Retrieved on May 16, 2014 from http://www.mca-i.org/en/cms/?2339

National Communication Association (NCA) (2014). What is NCA? Retrieved on May 16, 2014 from http://www.natcom.org/about/

The Association for Women in Communication (WomCom) (2014). Connect, Engage and Advance. Retrieved on May 16, 2014 from http://www.womcom.org/wp/

Delivering Bad News Tactfully and Effectively

In order to try and rectify a situation that has been brought to my attention, having been created by one of the workers who has worked for me for the past two years, I will take her to the conference room where we will not be disturbed and away from all the other employees for the privacy of this conversation. I know not to bring up faults of a worker in front of the other employees due to the fact that if a problem can be dealt with one on one, that is the best way to handle. Most of the time when having to discipline an employee is because there is a problem on the floor with one or more of the other employees, so I will need to get to the bottom of this and find out what the problems is (Kriesberg, 2003).

By taking her away from the attention of the other employees, I have presented a small haven in which the employee can speak freely to me if she wishes, by doing this I have de-escalated the situation because now this employee knows that something is going to be done to fix whatever the issue is that is causing this conflict.  I must convince her that I really need to know what the problem is that she has developed this attitude that is not only felt by the other employees but has also been noticed by the our customers and that is why I am nipping this in the bud, so we can get it rectified as soon as possible so that we can still produce worthwhile products to the satisfaction of the customers (Kriesberg, 2003).

If I find out that the problem is not within the employee group, and is with one of our customers, I will need to find out which customer and see if there is something that we can do in order to make it better for this customer seeing as obviously something has happened that has made the customer unhappy and has trickled right on across to my employee and in turn is creating a hostile work environment and it need not be that way (Kriesberg, 2003).

References

Kriesberg, L. (2003). "Settlement Stage." Beyond Intractability. Eds. Guy Burgess and Heidi Burgess. Conflict Information Consortium, University of Colorado, Boulder. Retrieved on May 5, 2014 from <http://www.beyondintractability.org/essay/termination-resolution-phase>.