Business Communication Challenge Analysis Report

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Overview:This business report allows you to reflect on a business communication challenge,andto analyze communication opportunitiesin businesses today. Additionally, itprovides an opportunity to use the formal report norms used in most organizations. You will be assessed on your ability to communicate your analysis clearly, concisely, and completely using formal report conventions. Deliverable:Prepare a seven to nine-pagebusiness report that andincludes the following sections and formatting as outlined in the QRG 13 –Formal Business Report Style Guide: A. Front Matter(3 pages): This sectionincludesthe title page(1 page), table of contents(1 page), and the executive summary(½page). B. Report Body(3 to 4 pagestotal): This sectionincludesthe introduction, findings (or analysis)(~2 pages), summary(~½page), and recommendations(~ ½page). C. Back Matter(1 to 2 pages): This sectionincludesthe reference page (1 page) and appendix (if required). Instructions:Virtual Communication Best PracticesYou work for Quartz Power Group(QPG), an energy company in the United Kingdom. Your boss, Marcus White, Managing Director, has asked you to provide a report that gives best practices for running virtual meetingsas the pandemic has your organization workingvirtually. QOGhas implemented the use of MS Teams to hold their organizational meetingsand Marcus is frustrated after the first few weeks as team members are using their cell phones during these meetings, not listening or responding, andsomemembers aren’t even showing up for the meetings even though they have accepted the meeting invite. As the Administrative Advisor for Quartz Power Group, you understand that working with real-time communication toolscan haveadvantages and disadvantages. Developing this report will persuadeMarcus to incorporatebest practicesinto their virtual meetings. The report bodywill include:1.An introductionthat describesthe issue.2.Theanalysissection will include two main parts:a.You will start the report with best practices that QPG has already adapted. Watch this video of Marcus chairing a meeting:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPhKhTI0Lss. Identify fivebest practices that QPG uses in thismeetingand provideanotherthree tofive best practices for meetings usingoutside sources.Use a minimum of two outside resources such as the textbook, websites, blogs, or other internet resources. The purpose of identifying these is to ensure that your report explains to Marcus what the company does well (backed by research) and how they can transition these best practicesto a virtual platform. b.Research and identifyeight to tenbest practices for virtual meetings that QPGcould implement. Demonstrate how these are the sameor new to the face-to-face meetings that QPG uses so Marc

 2will understand how easy this will be to implement.If theyare the same, you mayhave to explain how these will be used differently in a virtual setting. Use a minimum of two outside resources such as the textbook, websites, blogs, or other internet resources. Additionally, persuade Marcus by demonstrating the benefits of implementing these best practices (what problems have you resolved). 3.A summary of your analysis. There is no new information presented here. This is summary of the key points of the findings or analysis and is not more than one-half page in length. If the summary of information includes lots of data, a table or chart format would be recommended to ensure easy readability. Note that the summary section comes before the recommendations section.4.Recommendations that offer best practices for virtual meetingsfor QPG to incorporate. This is the last section of the report, and the information should flow logically from the analysis and the summary(i.e., the reader should not be surprised by your recommendations). The recommendations are action items to resolve the problem or issue identified in the report purpose, and these are presented in a bulleted list (use numbers only if there is a sequence to be followed or an order of importance for your recommendations). There is no need to provide details or explanations for your recommendations, unless they are challenging for the reader(s) to acce