Conflict Case
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Running head: MAJOR COMMUNICATION THEMES
Major Communication Themes
Leonelit Lopez
Redlands University
May 29, 2012
MGMT 624: Communication and Conflict in Organizations
Major Communication Themes
Communication throughout the period of life has faced many changes. As
communication tactics have changed, so have political views, approaches, and the manner in
which they are delivered. I will be focusing on two Major Communication Themes, which are Trust and Credibility and Nonverbal Communication. The two political parties I chose to focus on are President Barrack Obama and GOP Mitt Romney. The goal is to reveal delivery, mannerisms, and credibility via the Major Communication Themes.
Trust and Credibility
I will begin with President Barrack Obama at the 2011 White House Correspondence
Dinner. In this video, the President begins by joking about his birth place, but at the same time,
reveals credibility to those who doubt his birth right to have become the President of the United
States. He displayed his birth certificate on a monitor to shed light to those who still doubt
him. At the dinner, he played a video where his bloopers were displayed. He did this in order to
expose his character as one that is not perfect and capable of mistakes as most humans. This
video targeted the idea that President Obama can lead without a micro-phone without always
making decisions under the media umbrella. During this light dinner, he still dedicated a
moment of seriousness to our nation by honoring those devastated by storms in the southern
region of our country, and our military. He assured our nation on this night that the federal
government would continue to assist our neighbors in the south and placed the burden of
responsibility on the media to report on progress revealing to the country that change is indeed
taking place. These acts truly reveal a trust on behalf of our President that we as a nation thirst
for on a daily basis.
The same analysis by presidential candidate Mitt Romney was observed via the 2011
Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). Immediately upon commencing his speech,
Mr. Romney began to try and gain the trust of the nation through what he viewed as faults and
mistakes on behalf