Gender and the Role That it plays in Power and Influence

In this discussion question, you are asked to analyze gender communication differences and explain how to apply effective strategies to improve understanding between men and women in the workplace.

• Briefly describe the situation that you will be analyzing specific to gender communication differences (work teams, individual mentoring sessions, for example). If you do not have a work team to analyze, provide another situation that might apply.
• If you were the boss, how would you motivate everyone to clearly understand each other?
• How does power or influence play a role in understanding the differences in communication?
• Discussion question responses should be at least 300 words. Your responses in the discussion board must be well written according to the CSU-Global Guide to Writing and APA.