Our company has hundreds of employees with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We want to understand how our employees communicate with each other and identify positive communication patterns to reinforce and negative communication patterns to correct. We would like to collaborate with students to analyze how our employees communicate. This will help us gain insights into power dynamics, positivity levels, gender relations, ideologies, and communication efficiency.

This will involve several different steps for the students, including:

• Systematically observing and recording oral and written communication in our organization.
• Analyzing data and determining patterns of significance.
• Recommending strategies to reinforce positive communication and correct negative communication habits.

Bonus steps in the process would also include:

• Assisting in developing training material for a communications course.

By the end of the project, students should demonstrate:

• Documentation and collection of communication data
• Analysis of collected data and identification of significant results
• Recommendation of strategies for improved communication

Bonus steps would include:

• Developing training material to promote positive communication

Final deliverables should include

• A final report.

Students will connect directly with us for mentorship throughout the project. We will be able to provide answers to questions such as:

• Our company’s human resources initiatives
• Input on choices, problems or anything else the students might encounter.