$23.$How does a coordinating meeting contribute to goal alignment within a team?

A$.$ By avoiding discussions about goals to save time

B$.$ By highlighting individual achievements

C$.$ By discussing and clarifying team goals and ensuring everyone is on the same page

D$.$ By setting unrealistic goals to challenge the team

$24.$ Wei is giving a presentation to his firm's CEO about the business's options for upgrading its facility. Wei says, $"$As you can see here, we have two options. Option One is the fastest, but will significantly interfere with operations. Option Two will take longer, but will be less disruptive." Wei's CEO responds by saying "I like that one." Wei's CEO is using

A$.$ symbolic language.

B$.$ semantic language.

C$.$ structured language.

D$.$ ambiguous language.

$25.$ Which of the following statements about language and its relationship to credibility is true?

A$.$ People will always improve their credibility if they speak to their audience using clich$$s$.$

B$.$ People will always diminish their credibility if they speak to their audience using a dialect.

C$.$ People will generally lose their credibility if they make false statements about other people.

D$.$ People will generally find that using loaded language does not affect credibility.

$26.$The advantage of using I$-$statements over you$-$statements is that I$-$statements allow communicators to

A$.$ effectively highlight the other person's faults.

B$.$ take responsibility for their thoughts and feelings.

C$.$ express themselves vaguely to avoid conflict.

D$.$ shift responsibility to the other person.

$27.$ "The most talented musicians always play the guitar". The statement above is an example of:

A$.$ Facts

B$.$ Opinion

C$.$ Semantic

D$.$ Pragmatic

$28.$ A politician uses the phrase "corporate welfare" when referring to his opponent's plan to give tax breaks to businesses. This is an example of using

A$.$ a clich$.$

B$.$ libel.

C$.$ defamation.

D$.$ loaded language.

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