Adapting a Message to Different Audiences​​You Have Borrowed Your Boss's

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Adapting a Message to Different Audiences​​You have borrowed your boss's car to visit an important client for a working lunch. You are running late for the meeting, so you take the backroads. You are going a little over the speed limit, and it is drizzling. As you try to stop at an intersection, you realize that the brakes are not functioning. You slide about 8 feet into the intersection. Before you can do anything, you are hit on the passenger's side. It looks like you may miss lunch altogether.In small groups, consider the previous details and consider how you would relay the information to one of the following audiences assigned to you. Although you may emphasize or de-emphasize certain information or change the order of things, you should not substantially change the basic facts. Also, indicate the channel or medium you may want to select, depending on the audience.Your bossA co-worker who has been in three accidents during the past yearA co-worker who thinks you are a trouble makerA police officer who asks you to recount the eventsAn insurance agent who will be adjusting your ratesA lawyer representing you in court and needs to know all the factsA significant other who is behind you and supports you no matter whatIn a role play situation, retell the story to your assigned audience.

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Definitions:

Basic Framework

The underlying structure or set of ideas that forms the basis or foundation for something, such as a theory, system, or organization.

Theorist

An individual who develops theories or a systematic framework of concepts intended to explain specific phenomena.

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Bully-Victims

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