How Technology Is Changing the Way We Communicate

  • Author: Dr. Lew Bayer
  • Credit: 1
  • Study time: 30 minutes
Being Human in the Age of AI micro course
Course overview
Learn how screens change tone, pace and trust at work, what the research says about video meetings and AI-assisted messages, and a three-question check.
  • Video time: 3 minutes
  • Certificate of Completion included

What's included?

  • 5 Lessons
  • 1 Certificate of Completion
  • 1 Worksheet
  • 3 Videos
  • 2 PDF downloads

What you will learn

Describe how digital channels change the cues, pace and patterns of workplace communication.

A tool you can use this week

The Channel Check (Weight, Voice, Authorship); media richness; Relational Skill focus: Effective Communication and Active Listening. The worksheet helps you apply it to a real situation this week.

Dr. Lew Bayer

CEO of Civility Experts Inc., author, and Canadian Civility Ambassador
ABOUT LEW
Dr. Lew Bayer is internationally recognized as the leading expert on civility at work. She is CEO of Civility Experts Inc., a multinational civility training group with more than 500 affiliates in 46 countries, and the author of 23 books, including the bestseller The 30% Solution and a new book on diplomacy due for release in January 2027. With some 30 years of experience as a practitioner and mentor, Lew and her team of social architects help organizations build better workplaces by building competency in civility. She serves as faculty at the Canadian Management Centre, is Director of the International Civility Trainers' Consortium, and is currently embracing her role as Canadian Civility Ambassador.
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