{"id":73,"date":"2012-12-15T07:50:12","date_gmt":"2012-12-15T07:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/?p=73"},"modified":"2021-05-30T03:51:13","modified_gmt":"2021-05-30T03:51:13","slug":"the-purpose-of-professional-communication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/2012\/12\/15\/the-purpose-of-professional-communication\/","title":{"rendered":"The Purpose of Professional Communication"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nocontest.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/relationships.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-117 alignright\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nocontest.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/relationships.jpg?resize=350%2C467\" width=\"350\" height=\"467\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nocontest.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/relationships.jpg?w=350&amp;ssl=1 350w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nocontest.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/relationships.jpg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nI tell my students that the primary purpose of workplace communication is <em>to foster and maintain relationships<\/em>. I usually tack on an inverse way of saying it &#8211; &#8220;The *other* primary purpose is <em>to not screw up<\/em>&#8221; &#8211; because that&#8217;s a helpful way of remembering the first formulation (which I wish I had coined). Other purposes (to persuade, to inform, to protect, to describe, to amuse, or to organize, for example) are subordinate to this primary one.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Follow us on Twitter: <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/nocontestca\">@nocontestca<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">(<em>photo by Bob Basil<\/em>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I tell my students that the primary purpose of workplace communication is to foster and maintain relationships. I usually tack on an inverse way of saying it &#8211; &#8220;The *other* primary purpose is to not screw up&#8221; &#8211; because that&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/2012\/12\/15\/the-purpose-of-professional-communication\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[86],"class_list":["post-73","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-roberts-posts","tag-relationship"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2100,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions\/2100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}