Week Four: Final Project Sessions 7-8: Develop a presentation about a topic you are passionate about. In Quadrant four, several approaches are presented to sell ideas and how these ideas can be presented for audience understanding and appeal, such as describing a case presentation, discussing the arguments for a new initiative and invoking emotion for audience attention. Choose a topic of compelling interest for its political, workforce, regulatory or legal appeal to systems or people and create a presentation using the SSSAP approach described in the text. Based on the idea, problem or initiative, choose your platform to convince the audience of your proposal or the need for action. Include why you chose to present your topic by a specific approach to reach your audience based on the lessons from the text as a guide. In your presentation include the time scale of focus of the initiative—what are the short term vs. the long term actions. In a persuasive, meaningful way describe what the key leadership competencies are to solve the problem and to gain substantial insight. Students may present orally in class, scheduled with a sign-up list OR may choose to produce a video to deliver their presentation and post the presentation. For those students who plan to post, let me know your intentions. See the use of media aids under course resources. Cameras must be on. Those of you who want to progress through the course sooner, contact the instructor. We may have a Session 9 depending upon enrollment and scheduling. Use: SSSAP as a springboard to incorporate the material in Module 4, Competency 2. Include why you chose to present your topic in a certain way based on the lessons from the text as a guide: Determine and then present your stance by using one of the approaches in the text, such as issues/solutions, case study, argument fallacies, etc. Announce who your audience is, the BoD, community, staff, etc. Use at least 5 scholarly references, excluding the text. Plan for 5 min, but no less than 4 min. Cite your applicable references on each slide. Below are the program learning outcomes and competencies associated with the assignment: Associated PLOs #2 Effectively communicate in all forms of expression to relate facts, simplify complexity, customize, and create persuasive arguments for the target audience to improve organizational function and/or to transform organizational vision for all stakeholders. #5 Evaluate political, economic, social, technological, workforce, legal, ethical and regulatory factors that impact systems, organizations, communities and individuals at multiple levels along the health care continuum. #7 Demonstrate leadership excellence through abilities and behaviors, which include establishing a vision and inspiring and supporting others to work towards that shared vision and related goals. #10 Employ organizational integrity by examining organizational behavior for honesty and fair dealing with all constituencies, including employees and community stakeholders. #11 Exercise professional behaviors consistent with self-awareness, accountability, continuous learning, and ethical and social responsibility for the greater good. Associated Competencies L1 Identify a problem, obstacle, or opportunity and act considering this identification to address current or future problems or opportunities. Initiative emphasizes proactively doing things and not simply thinking about future actions. Levels of proficiency relate to the time scale of focus, moving from addressing current situations to acting on long-term future opportunities or problems. L6: Publicly challenge the status quo through clear and compelling identification of its risks to organizational success; articulate a clear vision of needed change; create a realistic sense of crisis or a disequilibrium to prepare the ground for change; energize others for change. IE2: Translate the results of complex analyses into information that illustrates potential problems and opportunities in a persuasive, meaningful way. C1: Demonstrate formal and informal communication using traditional and contemporary modalities to convey messages that are clear and cogent for the target audience, which includes all forms of expression and technology that may be employed to reach the audience. C3: Make complex ideas or situations clearer, simpler, and/or more understandable (., re-framing the problem, use of analogy); assemble ideas, issues, and observations into a clear and useful explanation; restate existing observations or knowledge in a simpler fashion; translate intricate technical information into terms everyone can understand; “boil down” information See the rubric for the grading guidelines.
