8-2 Short Presentation: Course Reflections and Future Direction of Adaptive Project Management

You are the newest project manager in the Program Management Office (PMO). You recently completed a course in adaptive project management. You are tasked with providing a briefing at the next PMO staff meeting on your findings.

You are instructed to keep it short. You will write a detailed narrative in the speaker notes that accompany the slides. You will provide your assessment of the future of adaptive project management along with your justification and reasoning. You will also describe and assess the value of what you gained from the course that can be applied in the future. Your peers in the PMO are the target audience for this presentation.

Describe at least one formal bureaucratic control that would aid in evaluating progress toward the operational goal you identified. Be sure to mention how you would measure the control.

  • Describe how the four functions (Planning, Organizing, Leading, and Control) of management relate to each other.
  • Introduce the company chosen in Unit 1, state the mission, vision, and values of the company.
  • Keeping in mind the organization’s mission, identify one strategic goal and trace that goal through the tactical and operational levels of planning with one specific example at each level.
  • Specify the appropriate person in the organization responsible for managing the goals at each level (organizing function) as well as what forms of power would be most useful in each level (leading function) with supporting details.
  • Describe at least one formal bureaucratic control that would aid in evaluating progress toward the operational goal you identified. Be sure to mention how you would measure the control.
  • Your submission should include a title slide, main content slides, and reference list slide.
  • For assistance formatting a reference list in APA format, please see the “Citation and Plagiarism Resources” link under “Academic Tools.”
  • The presentation should include at least 8 slides.

The presentation must be 10-15 slides long if using PowerPoint (excluding cover and reference pages) or 3-5 minute long if using a video presentation.

Using the case outline (Part I: How the Courts Address or Respect Our Rights as Citizens) you submitted in Week 6, prepare and submit a presentation, which will either be a narrated PowerPoint, a Kaltura Video, or some other format as approved by your instructor. Be sure to verify the presentation format with your instructor before starting work on this assignment.

The presentation Point presentation will need to include:

  • Name the case
  • Discuss the facts of the case
  • Discuss the history of the case (what laws or legal action was taken)
  • Discuss the issues or the facts of the case and legal questions the court must decide
  • Discuss if the court’s decision or holdings was for the plaintiff or for the defendant and what were the reasons for the decision?
  • Discuss the concurring and dissenting opinions from the judge or if a jury trial, the jury.

Important: In this assignment, you are expected to elaborate the points you made in the prior assignment in Week 6. This assignment will be graded on your strength to elaborate and explain the facts of the case and proper use of visual aids, good narration, and presenting to the case and how well you stick to the case. For example, if you are using the PowerPoint, you are also expected to include proper visuals that are relevant to the case. Do not copy-paste the outline into this and call it complete.

This assignment is worth 250 points.

Writing Requirements (APA format)

  • Length: The presentation must be 10-15 slides long if using PowerPoint (excluding cover and reference pages) or 3-5 minute long if using a video presentation.
  • 1-inch margins
  • Double spaced
  • 12-point Times New Roman font
  • Title page
  • References page (minimum of 2 scholarly sources in addition to textbook if cited)
  • Use the speaker notes to elaborate on the content on the slides

Create a PowerPoint presentation outlining what you anticipate will be the biggest challenges facing organizations in the next twenty years. Prepare an eight-slide presentation in which you include: 

1. In this assignment, you will create a PowerPoint presentation outlining what you anticipate will be the biggest challenges facing organizations in the next twenty years. Prepare an eight-slide presentation in which you include:

2. A title slide.

3. A slide with an introduction to your presentation.

4. A slide listing your chosen five challenges you believe organizations will face in the next 20 years.

5. One slide for each of the five challenges and your explanation for choosing that challenge.

6. A summary slide that addresses key points of your paper.

7. Recorded narration for your presentation, indicating what you would say if you were actually presenting in front of an audience.

8. This course requires the use of Strayer Writing Standards. For assistance and information, please refer to the Strayer Writing Standards link in the left-hand menu of your course. Check with your professor for any additional instructions. The specific course learning outcome associated with this assignment is:

o Analyze organizational behavior challenges faced by management professionals.

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Policy Trends and Ethics in Nursing

Use your previous assignments to identify a policy related to your chosen health issue and create a Prezi or PowerPoint presentation that focuses on the development, needed change, or implementation related to your health issue. Policy briefs are overviews of issues that are intended to inform policymakers.  The presentation should be succinct, colorful, and designed to catch the attention of a busy policymaker. See the attached document below for more information.

The presentation should have the following structure:

Executive Summary

An overview of the problem, why change is needed, and your recommendations for change

Introduction

A clear statement of the problem, its causes, and why it is important

What are the key issues that are relevant to the health issue?

Approaches/policy options

Summarize facts, issues, contexts.  Provide facts or examples that support the need for policy to change/impact/solve the issue.

Recommendations

Provide recommendations on development, implementation or changes that need to be considered to solve the health issue. Provide specific steps and reemphasize the importance of this change.

References

Each content component will have one or two slides.

Include a title and references slide

Use bullet points rather than paragraph form. The target audience is a policymaker, not a medical professional, so keep scientific jargon to a minimum.

Upload to your completed assignment to the ePortfolio from Unit 1 by Sunday night at midnight CT, for course objective #1. Failure to submit to your ePortfolio by the due date will result in a zero for this assignment.

Create an eight- to ten-slide PowerPoint presentation. In this presentation, you want to summarize what you found and discuss how you think these findings will help you make better business decisions.

Cookie Business Final Presentation
Now that you have completed running some calculations for the cookie business in Unit VII, you will present your findings.
The learning objectives of this project allow you to apply accounting concepts and standards to the creation of accounting information and reports.
Using your final project from Unit VII as a guide, create an eight- to ten-slide PowerPoint presentation. In this presentation, you want to summarize what you found and discuss how you think these findings will help you make better business decisions. In addition, provide future recommendations for the cookie business based on your report findings.
Your presentation slides should be somewhat simple (incomplete sentences, bullets, etc.) with appropriate graphics or images. You must add content to your presentation (completed sentences) through either the notes feature in PowerPoint or by creating a video of you presenting your presentation, uploading your video to YouTube, and sharing the link to your video on the first or second slide of your presentation.

Prepare a 12- to 13-slide Change Management Presentation for the company’s Board of Directors. Include the following:

Assignment Content

  1. Purpose of Assessment
    Develop specific strategies with supporting tactics to implement positive change within an organization. You may refer to the information that you prepared in Week 5 to complete this assignment, but your submission should add to your prior research and not just copy your Week 5 assignment.The following companies may not be selected for your assignments: Apple, Coca-Cola, Nike, Starbucks or WalMart. If one of these companies is used for an assignment, a 50% point deduction will be applied.

    Scenario: 
    You’ve been hired as a consultant to develop strategies with supporting tactics to implement positive changes in the corporation you chose in Week 5.

    Review your analysis of the corporation’s change process from Week 5 to be sure you have a thorough understanding of the change and the need for the change.

    Prepare a 12- to 13-slide Change Management Presentation for the company’s Board of Directors. Include the following:

    • Evaluate why this change needed to occur.
    • Discuss how this change impacts the company on a global scale.
    • Discuss how this change impacts employees.
    • Using Kotter’s 8-Step Change Model, chart strategies and tactics for positively implementing the organizational change. In your chart, complete the following:
    • Develop strategies for each of the 8 steps in Kotter’s model
    • Develop tactics to support each strategy
    • Justify the effectiveness of each strategy and tactic with a rationale.
    • Conclude your presentation with an explanation of how this positive organizational change will help the company sustain a competitive advantage in the global market.
    • Submit your assignment.

Continuation of precious course project about milestones 1,2,3

COURSE PROJECT: FINAL PRESENTATION – ORAL MULTIMEDIA SUBMISSION

You will be required to upload your final oral presentation in the Week 8 Discussions Area. Your colleagues and the professor will have a chance to view your oral presentation and comment on it in that discussions area. This final oral presentation must also be uploaded in the Week 8 Final Oral Assignment area. It is the instructor’s option as to the modality of each presentation (PPT Audio or Kaltura).

The requirements for the audio presentation are as follows.

COURSE PROJECT PRESENTATION

    1. Introduction
    2. Change analysis summary
    3. Determining the change summary
    4. Communicating the change summary
    5. Presentation quality
    6. Verbal presentation quality

PRESENTATION GUIDELINES

A. Ten to 12 minutes (maximum) are allocated for the presentation.
B.  No more than 10 slides are allowed in the final oral presentation. Do not embed any video files, audio files, or animated graphics, due to the limitations of the Canvas LMS.
C.  Ensure that your presentation contains audio

Submit a narrated PowerPoint presentation using Kaltura Media that includes 11 to 12 slides.

This week, you will use role theory to apply to your chosen case study. In other words, your theoretical orientation—or lens—is role theory as you analyze the case study.

Use the same case study that you chose in Week 2. (Remember, you will be using this same case study throughout the entire course). Use the “Dissecting a Theory and Its Application to a Case Study” worksheet to help you dissect the theory. You do not need to submit this handout. It is a tool for you to use to dissect the theory, and then you can employ the information in the table to complete your assignment.

To prepare:

  • Review and focus on the same case study that you used in Week 2.
  • Review the websites and guides for developing PowerPoint skills found in the Learning Resources.
  • Use Personal Capture to record the PPT slides on your screen and your audio as you present the information. You will then use Kaltura Media to upload this recording to the assignment link.

Submit a narrated PowerPoint presentation using Kaltura Media that includes 11 to 12 slides.

  • Each slide should be written using bullet points, meaning no long paragraphs of written text should be in the slides.
  • The recorded audio takes the place of any written paragraphs, while the bullet points provide context and cues for the audience to follow along).

Your presentation should address the following:

  • Identify the presenting problem for the case study you selected. (Remember the presenting problem has to be framed from the perspective of role theory. For example, the presenting problem can be framed within the context of role functioning).
  • Identify all the relevant roles assumed by the client.
  • Analyze the social expectations and social and cultural norms revolving around the role, social position, and role scripts of one of the roles assumed by the client.
  • Explain the role and social position of the social worker in working with the client in the case study.
  • Describe how the role(s) and social position(s) assumed by the social worker will influence the relationship between the social worker and the client.
  • Identify three assessment questions that are guided by role theory that you will ask the client to better understand the problem.
  • Identify and describe two interventions that are aligned with the presenting problem and role theory.
  • Identify one outcome that you would measure if you were to evaluate one of the interventions you would implement to determine if the intervention is effective.
  • Evaluate one advantage and one limitation in using role theory in understanding the case.

Be sure to:

  • Identify and correctly reference the case study you have chosen.
  • Use literature to support your claims.
  • Use APA formatting and style.
  • Include the reference list on the last slide.

Your presentation must be a minimum of 12 slides, not including title and reference slides. 

 Find a successful public service project that exemplifies effective collaboration with different stakeholders, and summarize the results of the project in a PowerPoint presentation. (Please see the Suggested Reading in Unit V for examples.)Ensure the PowerPoint presentation includes the location, key stakeholders involved (and their roles), time period to complete the project, and the challenges involved in completing the project.Also, provide a brief critique of the project:

  • Is there anything that you would have done differently?
  • What elements of the project stood out to you?

Your presentation must be a minimum of 12 slides, not including title and reference slides.

Templet attached