Growing evidence suggests that tomorrow's workers face challenges interacting with one another competently and compassionately (Turkle, 2011). Meanwhile, young adults increasingly struggle to maintain meaningful relationships and hold emotionally competent conversations (Barnwell, 2014). Despite the importance of relational communication competence in the workplace, life activities provide decreasing opportunities for its practice. This is why organizational communication courses are essential for creating future employees who understand and can practice or negotiate compassion, emotional labor, conflict negotiation, workplace bullying, and emotional intelligence. In this essay, we propose an ontological-phenomenological-phronetic-transformative (OPPT) approachsomething we call OPPT-in-for providing students with access to engage in relational organizational communication in live, real-time experience. This approach differs from the traditional approach evidenced in most textbooks and syllabi.To create a picture of current practice, we conducted a Google search for organizational communication course syllabi from the past 5 years. From this list, we selected 17 syllabi as a maximum variation sample (Tracy, 2013) and