Scenario
Imagine that Lynette follows up with you shortly after reading your views on leadership and collaboration. Her email says the following:
Thanks for sending me your thoughts last week on the diversity issue at the clinic. Your next step is to select professionals who can help you in this project. Then you need to prepare an introduction to the project for a first meeting with them. I want you to prepare a presentation to serve as a brief (but packed) introduction for your first meeting with a group of 4–5 members that will constitute the committee tasked with addressing the diversity issue. I will review your presentation (where you identify the characteristics that you are looking for in group members) to help recruit them for you. [The “I” here refers to Lynette whom you sent the email to for your Week 3 assignment. You are creating this presentation for and delivering it to her. This will inform her of your proposed approach and team members. She can then give you feedback on your approach and help recruit team members.] The presentation should use 6–8 slides with detailed speaker's notes so I can understand your approach. There's not a lot of time or space, so keep things pretty high level.
Do the following:
- Briefly outline the project goals as you see them. Highlight a couple of the initial priorities to be addressed by the group and note why they are important. [You talked about this in your Week 3 assignment (e-mail response to Lynette), so build off that work.] Focus a plan on several key priorities.
- Explain the composition of the team and why you chose them. Note that you will not know the exact individuals but assume we will get you the people with the qualities and characteristics that you outline in the presentation. This is your “Dream Team” that would help make this project successful. [Lynette will give you feedback and help you recruit these people (not part of this assignment).] Consider the following: These are some ideas for you to consider using to explain “why” these people (their positions in the organization) with these characteristics/skills are needed for this team.
- They will need to be a group of professionals that you believe can help you define the problem and ultimately make recommendations on how to address it.
- Each member needs to be either trained in, be sensitive to, or have experience with the concept of workplace diversity.
- Give some thought to having some members from outside the organization.
- Provide member profiles: diversity, qualifications, experience, internal versus external, et cetera.
- Explain your role and describe how the group will work together and achieve effective interprofessional collaboration. “How” will you organize, communicate, and lead this team?
- Describe how the group will communicate. How and when will they meet?
- How will ideas be shared and how will decisions be made?
- What are the roles, group functions, and structure?
- Describe the basic characteristics of a diverse workplace. Look for outside references to support this slide.
- Provide a convincing argument regarding the benefits of a diverse workforce using support from current research. Yep, your statement supported by outside research (professional association, peer-reviewed literature, et cetera.)
Instructions
Create a 6–8 slide presentation using the PowerPoint Template [PPTX] in response to the content defined in the above scenario. Review the Professional Presentation Guidelines [PPTX] for design guidelines and hints. In addition, the PowerPoint section of Tools and Resources includes PowerPoint tutorials. In your presentation:
- Express your main points, arguments, and conclusions coherently. Use correct grammar and mechanics.
- Support your claims, arguments, and conclusions with credible evidence from 2–3 current scholarly or professional sources.
- Apply current APA formatting to all in-text citations and references. Include a references slide at the end of the presentation. Evidence and APALinks to an external site. can help with this.
- Proofread your writing.
You may use the Week 6 Assignment Example [PPTX] to give you an idea of what a Proficient or higher rating on the rubric would look like.
Presentation Requirements
- Length: 6–8 slides (not including the title slide and references slide).
- Notes: Create detailed speaker's notes that describe items on each slide so that the viewer can accurately interpret the deeper meanings and intentions that would have been conveyed orally.
- Visuals: Use visuals that are easily read and interpreted. Use colors, fonts and formatting, and other design principles that make the slides easy to understand and generally add to the aesthetic of the presentation.
Refer to the rubric for details on how your assignment will be evaluated.