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JWI 505: Business Communication and Executive Presence Academic Submissions and Evaluation

Assignment 3: Presentation Design and Delivery

Due Week 9, Sunday (Weight: 25%)

“The art of communication is the language of leadership.” James Humes

For this assignment, you will apply the practices of planning, creating, and delivering an impactful professional presentation. Identify an important presentation coming up at work in your near future. If you don’t have one on the horizon, choose a worthy topic for your role, business, or industry. This could be a presentation at a conference, or to your board, your management team, your own team, or a few key decision-makers in your organization.

Instructions

Prepare a PowerPoint presentation slide deck of 20 slides or less. Apply slide design best practices: use minimal text, include images and/or charts, and format slides professionally.

1. Deliver a 6-8 minute presentation, using Zoom. The video must include you and your slides. (See your Blackboard course for instructions on using Zoom.)

2. Your presentation will be assessed using the below criteria:

a. Objectives are clear.

b. An impactful opening statement is used to engage the audience, set context, and/or create relevant meaning for the audience.

c. Delivery exhibits strong, professional stage presence, confident body posture, authenticity, appropriate tone, demonstration of passionate purpose, and connection to audience (feels more like a conversation than a speech).

d. Communication is clear, targeted, succinct, and utilizes the beginning and end effectively.

e. Presenter is the focus. Slides serve only as visual aids to support the objective.

f. Presenter is professional in look (appropriate business attire, distance to computer, angle, and setting with neutral, non-distracting surroundings).

Professional Formatting Requirements:

• Include a PowerPoint cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student name(s), the professor’s name, the course title, and the date.

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Assignment 3: Rubric

Weight: 25% Assignment 3: Presentation Design and Delivery

Criteria Unsatisfactory Low Pass Pass High Pass Honors

1. Slide deck The slide deck The slide deck The slide deck The slide deck The slide deck

follows design does not follow follows some satisfactorily follows completely excellently

best practices, design best but not all of the most of the design follows the design follows the design

supports the practices and design best best practices, and best practices, best practices,

student’s does not support practices and it provides good and it provides and it provides

presentation. the student’s provides limited support for the strong, targeted exemplary

presentation. support for the student’s support for the support for the

student’s presentation. student’s student’s

Weight: 40% presentation. presentation. presentation.

2. Delivers an Does not or meet Partially meets Satisfactorily meets Completely meets Exemplarily

engaging, clear, the criteria. the criteria. the criteria. Includes the criteria. meets the criteria.

and professional Does not include Includes some most of these: clear Presentation has Presentation has

presentation that but not all of objectives, an

clear objectives or clear objectives clear objectives

meets the these: clear engaging opening

an engaging and an engaging and an excellent

assessment objectives, an statement, clear

opening opening opening

criteria. engaging communication, and

statement; statement. statement.

opening an adequate

student fails to

statement, clear professional Student Student

communicate

Weight: 40% communication, presence. communicates communicates

clearly and does

and a clearly and has a clearly and has

not have a

professional strong an excellent

professional

presence. professional professional

presence.

presence. presence.

3. The video has The video does The video has a The video has a The video has a The video has an

a professional not have a partially satisfactorily good, strong extremely

look and feel. It professional look professional professional look professional look professional look

adheres to the and feel. It is over look and feel. It and feel. It may be and feel. It may and feel.

6-8 minute the 8 minute time is over the 8 over the 8 minute be over the 8 It also adheres to

minute time time limit, but by no minute time limit,

timeframe. limit by more than the 6-8 minute

limit, but by no more than 1 minute. but by no more

2 minutes. time limit.

more than 2 than 30 seconds.

Weight: 20% minutes.

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