7-10 slides/ 5-10 bullets per slides. Purpose To assess your ability to present your plan in a professional manner. Overview From a managerial perspective, giving presentations is significant and often a requirement on a periodic if not frequent basis. How you maintain eye contact is a key part of presenting. However, many presentations are given online, without the use of webcams. This will be the case for online students. Other ways you present yourself, including the volume and tone of your voice, and your ability to keep the attention of your audience are more key components to a powerful presentation. Here are some other tips on making presentations: avoid being guilty of death by PowerPoint – be creative and keep a good pace; don’t be boring avoid sounding like you are reading your presentation; online students cannot hide lack of preparation behind a PowerPoint file on screen – people can hear if you are reading it all or if you know your stuff have a good structure to your presentation; have a beginning, middle, and end to your presentation. Here are some websites with information about making presentations: Creating an effective PowerPoint presentation Giving Effective PowerPoint Presentations How to Create an Effective PowerPoint Presentation Making a Presentation Like Steve Jobs Action Items Review the rubric for this assignment (below). Prepare a professional presentation about your overall plan for your department at Better Health. Prepare as if you were going to pitch the plan to Charles and the board. In addition to your appearance/and or voice and pacing, make certain that every aspect of your presentation is professional. This includes the design of your PowerPoint file, the fonts, spacing (use of white space), graphics, etc. Create a 7-minute presentation using PowerPoint. You will also have 3 minutes to answer questions, for a total of 10 minutes. Present/pitch the overall plan you have created for Better Health during this course: Include the main elements of the plan but in presentation form—you cannot read a paper to a group of executives Tell your story–present the main points in your plan that you worked on in weeks 2 – 5 (Plan, Organize, Lead, Control assignments) Provide a forecast for your plan – after the implementation of your plan (after 6 months – 1 year), would things stay the same or need to be significantly changed. Why or why not? Use visuals effectively to help justify your plan.
