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Unlike all other texts in the field, which emphasize paper documents and outdated practices, only Bovée and Thill present the full range of electronic media that students will need to know to meet employer expectations.

Business Communication Today,
10th Ed.

Excellence in Business Communication,
9th Ed.

Business Communication Essentials,
4th Ed.
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Is Your Business Communication
Textbook Preparing
Students for the Future
or the Past?
Do You Know the
Fallacies about Teaching
Electronic Media?
Does Your Textbook
Cover Business
Communication 2.0?
Video:
A Fundamental Shift in the
Way We Communicate.
(See the New Media
Covered Only by
Bovee and Thill. Are You
Using the Right Text?)
A Letter to Instructors
Video:
Alert! A Paradigm Shift Is
Impacting Business
Communication Courses
Major Study: Thousands of Companies Using Social Media. Will Your Students Be Prepared to Use Social Media on the Job?
Study: 91% Using Social Media.in the Inc. 500-- America's Fastest Growing Private Companies. (Social Media Should Be Part of Your Course. Only Bovee & Thill's Texts Offer Social Media Coverage.)
Teach Your Students How to Use Social Media on the Job. (See sample pages here of Bovee & Thill's coverage you won't find in any competing texts.)
Business Communication Is Changing Due to Social Media (Are Your Students Learning about These Changes from Your Current Text?)
Hundreds of Social Media Examples
Canadian Editions
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Conducting Effective Meetings

Monday, November 9th, 2009

People don’t take meetings seriously Solution: Adopt a mindset among all participants that meetings are real work. You have to make your meetings “uptime” rather than “downtime.”
Example: Put a poster on the wall of every conference room with a series of simple questions about the meetings to act as a visual reminder: Do you know [...]

Make Meetings Work

Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

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In this series of 30 slides, you’ll learn to determine if a meeting is necessary, what types of meeting can be prepared, how to plan a meeting, and how to develop effective facilitation skills.

Daydreaming In Meetings? Here Are Five Ways to Focus and Listen Attentively

Tuesday, September 8th, 2009

It’s a typical day at work. You’re sitting in a meeting, bored out of your skull, daydreaming about your summer vacation and watching the clock go round. Someone speaking in a tedious monotone is droning on and on, but the sound’s just become background noise to you.
Then suddenly, you jolt back to full awareness of [...]

Five Ways to Overhaul Your Meetings Manners

Tuesday, August 25th, 2009

Business meetings can be functional or frustrating, catalysts or catastrophes, inspirational or insipid. But it’s not always random fate that decides which kind you’ll be getting. You can help influence the tone and course of any meeting you attend by honing your meeting etiquette.
Etiquette, you say? For a meeting? But of course. In any gathering [...]

Meetings Are a Matter of Precious Time

Tuesday, August 4th, 2009

Reid Hastie (left), a professor at the University of Chicago, contends that “every organization has too many meetings, and far too many poorly designed ones.” The main reason we don’t make meetings more productive is that we don’t value our time properly. The people who call meetings and those who attend them are not thinking [...]

Simple Parliamentary Procedure: Guidelines for Better Business Meetings

Tuesday, August 4th, 2009

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Have you ever been to an out-of-control meeting? A meeting where two or three items were discussed at once? A meeting where you never had a chance to express your views! A meeting where a vote was never taken and in the end, the president made the final decision? Chances are, you [...]

How to Handle Meeting Agendas, Part I

Friday, July 17th, 2009

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Learn how to handle meeting agendas. This podcast comes in two parts.See the next post for the second part.

Meeting Seating

Wednesday, July 15th, 2009

Where you sit in a work meeting says something about your relationship with the boss and other employees. We’ll tell you where to find the “Yes” person and the “Yes, but” person. We’ll also show you where the boss’s harshest critic tends to sit.
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Terror Grips You (Someone Has Called a Meeting)

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009

Everyone has heard the advice on how to make meetings productive: have an agenda; force people to stay on topic; limit discussion; make everyone stand throughout (to make it uncomfortable for things to drag on).
And still, unproductive meetings remain a major subject of complaints by employees— and small business owners.

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How to Handle Meeting Agendas, Part II

Friday, March 6th, 2009

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This is Part 2 of “How to Handle Meeting Agendas.”

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