Content and Relational Dimensions of Messages: Suppose your supervisor says to you, "I love it when you text me at 6:30 in the morning."

Answer the following questions by linking your thoughts to the concepts in the chapter. In addition, find and cite at least one external source (article, scholarly journal article, trade publication) that supports your responses or perhaps provides a different perspective. Examples include scholarly journal articles you can find through Google Scholar via the MSU library online, or industry sites, such as Harvard Business Review, Forbes, Wall Street Journal, and Pew Research, to name just a few). By doing so, we'll relate our course topics to what researchers and practitioners are saying about them.

1. What is the content dimension of that message?
2. What are some various ways in which you could describe the relational dimension of that message?
3. Which verbal and nonverbal cues would you pay attention to when deciding how to interpret the relational dimension accurately?