 Welcome back. I hope you enjoyed Unit 2. I hope that Unit 2 helps you to reflect on the ways that interpersonal communication affects your everyday life and how it helps you to build not only personal connections, but connections inside the workplace. As you've no doubt seen, interpersonal communication is truly transactional. To be successful with communicating with others, we need to be both good senders and receivers of messages. We interpret messages from others through the words they use as well as their nonverbal cues. To keep it simple, how you say something is just as important as what you say. We also learned about self-disclosure as a key concept for relationship building. Our perception of ourselves and others are dependent on our ability to disclose information about ourselves and interpret information about others. Now let's move ahead to talking about what we can expect from Unit 3. In Unit 3, we're going to build upon what we've learned in Units 1 and 2 about human communication and interpersonal communication to apply it to communication in small groups. Because we spend the majority of our lives working and socializing in small groups, it's important for us to examine these relationships more closely. Some of the key concepts to watch out for in Unit 3 are how small groups develop and how we communicate in groups as we strive to solve problems and achieve group goals. As we work through this unit, you will be introduced to more theories that help to explain how communication functions in groups, as well as some ethical concerns about our behavior regarding how we act in group settings. I'm sure I sound like a broken record at this point, but we want to stress again the importance of taking notes. They will not only help you with the assessments for this unit, but will help you prepare for the final exam as you realize how units continue to build upon each other. Best of luck in Unit 3, and we'll see you back here again before Unit 4.