Conflict Case

Running head: MAJOR COMMUNICATION THEMES

Major Communication Themes

Leonelit Lopez

Redlands University

May 29, 2012

MGMT 624: Communication and Conflict in Organizations

2 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