COMM 315 Wk 4 Team: Workplace Training on Diversity Presentation

This assignment must be completed in PowerPoint.

Your team will work on it in the team / group area and ONE person will submit it on Monday.

I reserve the right to award different scores for different contributions for each team member. If you do not post on time, or if your team does a lot of your work for you, I do reserve the right to award grades to reflect that.

Jump in, it is only a week and give it your all.

Develop a workplace training for a team of U.S. managers who are to be sent to work overseas.

Your PowerPoint (PP) will be at least 8 to 10 slides including an intro, body and conclusion and a reference slide in APA formatting. You must include speaker’s notes, even if you do a voiceover, for full possible points. This is everything that you would actually say in a presentation.

Slide 1 – Welcome Message.

Slide 2 – Introduction, the three points you will discuss.

Example, “In this presentation we will discuss working in (chose a country), how to communicate and how to resolve conflict.” These are just quick ideas for the three points. Your team will come up with better ones.

Slide 3 to slide 5 or 6 – will be more information about each points including references.

Slide 7 – Conclusion to wrap up your points.

Slide 8 – References

Select a country of your choice where these managers will be tasked to oversee a number of employees native to that country.

Provide some specific guidelines for the U.S. managers who are in a diverse environment that will help them to communicate, interact, and lead effectively. This training should include some hands-on activities or concrete examples from which the trainees will be able to learn about the country they will be working and living in.

Give us good information about the country, how to navigate, live, eat, work, interact, etc.

Present your training to the class in 8 to 10 Microsoft® PowerPoint® slides and request feedback..

For full possible points, your PP Presentation must include developed speaker’s notes that will represent everything you would actually say including references.

Format your assignment according to appropriate course level APA guidelines.

The rubrics is cut and pasted for easy viewing so the formatting is off just a bit.

Team PowerPoint Rubrics

Content and Organization                                                                                     40%

Slide 1 – Title Slide and welcome message. Come up with a nice title, add the names of your team and class information.

Slide 2 – Introduction slide – gives us the three points you will discuss in your presentation.

Slide 3 through 6th slides (approximately) – Body of your PP will be at least 3 to 5 or more slides – each slide will discuss one of the three points from your introduction.

Slide 7 (approximately) – conclusion to wrap up your points.

Final slide – references in APA formatting. They MUST all be used in your speech to receive credit.

Research slide and APA formatting                                                                                        10%

You will have at least 3 scholarly and credible references both in the presentation and on a reference slide which is after the conclusion.

Design, color and font                                                                                                                10%

Use bullet points and short sentences. Do not have large blocks of text, that is too hard to read for the audience. Have an easy to view design and color. Be sure your font is readable and is consistent throughout the PP.

Images                                                                                                                                        5%

Have at least 5 images that aid with your message and do not take away from the readability.

Speakers notes or Voice over

Most of the content of your PP will be in the actual speech. Be sure to develop the content and quote the references in the notes or in the voiceover. Your speaker’s notes will be several paragraphs as they are what your team would actually say including your references.      30%

“According to the Journal of Working in India….” (I just made this up.

The speaker’s notes will be at the bottom of each slide. There is a place for them at the bottom.

You will speak or include your references in your speech and or notes. Example… According to the Journal of Travel, it is reported that most individuals do not research before going abroad. This is just an example.

Preparation and follow directions                                                                                              5%

Your presentation shows the preparation and that you read and followed all directions.