Create a 6–8 slide presentation (with detailed speaker’s notes) on how you would select, foster collaboration among, and educate a team dedicated to solving a diversity issue.
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Introduction
Assessments 3 and 4 are based on the same scenario, so you must complete them in the order in which they are presented.
Finding, organizing, and motivating teams is a key leadership skill as is the ability to communicate and present information.
Overview
In this assessment, you will continue your work from Assessment 3 by creating a 6–8 slide PowerPoint presentation for the diversity project kickoff meeting.
Preparation
- Review the Guidelines for Effective PowerPoint Presentations [PPTX] for guidelines and hints for an effective presentation.
- Use the PowerPoint Template [PPTX] to complete this assessment.
Scenario
Imagine that your boss Lynnette follows up with you in an email shortly after reading your views on leadership and collaboration:
Hi,
Thanks for sending me your thoughts last week on the diversity issue at the clinic. Your next step is to select a team of professionals who can help you in this project and prepare an introduction of the project for a first meeting with them.
I want you to prepare a presentation to serve as a brief but substantive introduction for the first meeting with a group of 4–5 members who will participate on the committee tasked with addressing the diversity issue. Once I review more information about the proposed team I can help you with the recruitment. The presentation should be 6–8 slides with detailed speaker’s notes so I can understand your approach. Not a lot of time or space, so keep things pretty high level. Do the following:
- Briefly outline the project goals and highlight 2–3 of the initial priorities to be addressed by the group. Also, explain why they are important.
- Explain the composition of the team and why you chose them. Note that you will not know the exact individuals yet, but assume we will recruit the people with the desired qualities and characteristics you outline in the presentation. Consider the following:
- Include a group of professionals you believe can help define the problem and ultimately make recommendations on how to address it.
- Make sure each member is either trained in, sensitive to, or has experience with the concept of workplace diversity.
- Give some thought to having some members from outside the organization.
- Provide member profiles: their diversity, qualifications, experience, internal versus external, and so forth.
- Explain your role and describe how the committee will work together and achieve effective interprofessional collaboration.
- Describe how the group will communicate. How and when they will meet.
- Describe how ideas will be shared and decisions made.
- Describe roles, group function, and structure.
- Describe the basic characteristics of a diverse workplace.
- Provide a convincing argument regarding the benefits of a diverse workforce using support from current research.
Thanks,
Lynnette
Instructions
For this assessment:
- Create a 6–8 slide PowerPoint presentation in response to the content defined in the above scenario.
Note: If you require the use of assistive technology or alternative communication methods to participate in this activity, please contact DisabilityServices@Capella.edu to request accommodations.
Presentation Guidelines
Your assessment should also meet the following requirements:
- Length: 6–8 PowerPoint slides (not including title slide and reference slide).
- Notes: Prepare detailed speaker’s notes describing items on each slide so that the viewer can accurately interpret the deeper meanings and intentions that would have been conveyed orally. Support your claims, arguments, and conclusions with credible evidence from 2–3 current, scholarly or professional sources.
- Visuals: Create visuals that are easily read and interpreted. Use colors, fonts, and formatting and other design principles that make the information clear and generally add to the aesthetic of the presentation.
What to Submit
Save your PowerPoint presentation as a PDF with notes so the speaker notes will be processed through Turnitin. You can use the following resource for instructions:
- Save PowerPoint Presentations As PDF files.
Please refer to the scoring guide for details on how your assessment will be evaluated.
Example Assessment: You may use the following to give you an idea of what a Proficient or higher rating on the scoring guide would look like:
- Assessment 4 Example [PPTX].
Competencies Measured
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the course competencies through the following assessment scoring guide criteria:
- Competency 1: Apply qualities, skills, and practices used by effective healthcare leaders.
- Outline goals and initial priorities that reasonably reflect the project.
- Competency 2: Apply practices that facilitate effective interprofessional collaboration.
- Outline a plan that effectively fosters interprofessional group collaboration.
- Competency 3: Apply ethical codes and diversity best practices in healthcare organizations.
- Define the composition of a team with characteristics that could effectively address and apply ethical codes, diversity, and best practices in healthcare organizations.
- Describe the basic characteristics of a diverse and inclusive workplace.
- Explain the benefits of promoting and supporting diversity within an organization using scholarly resources.
- Competency 4: Produce clear, coherent, and professional written work, in accordance with Capella writing standards.
- Create an organized presentation that clearly communicates all specified content.
Scoring Guide
Use the scoring guide to understand how your assessment will be evaluated.
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Criterion 1
Outline goals and initial priorities that reasonably reflect the project.
Distinguished
Outlines insightful and goals and initial priorities that accurately reflect the project, along with reasonably stated assumptions.
Proficient
Outlines goals and initial priorities that reasonably reflect the project.
Basic
Outlines goals and initial priorities that do not reasonably reflect the project.
Non Performance
Does not outline goals and initial priorities that reflect the project.
Criterion 2
Define the composition of a team with characteristics that could effectively address and apply ethical codes, diversity, and best practices in healthcare organizations.
Distinguished
Defines the composition of a team, with characteristics that is highly diverse and well equipped to effectively address and apply ethical codes, diversity, and best practices in healthcare organizations.
Proficient
Defines the composition of a team, with characteristics that could effectively address and apply ethical codes, diversity, and best practices in healthcare organizations.
Basic
Defines the composition of a team, with few characteristics that could effectively address and apply ethical codes, diversity, and best practices in healthcare organizations.
Non Performance
Does not define the composition of a team or address ethical codes, diversity, or best practices in healthcare organizations.
Criterion 3
Outline a plan that effectively fosters interprofessional group collaboration.
Distinguished
Outlines a plan that effectively fosters interprofessional group collaboration and includes multiple proven methodologies.
Proficient
Outlines a plan that effectively fosters interprofessional group collaboration.
Basic
Outlines a plan that in unlikely to effectively foster interprofessional group collaboration.
Non Performance
Does not outline a plan that effectively fosters interprofessional group collaboration.
Criterion 4
Describe the basic characteristics of a diverse and inclusive workplace.
Distinguished
Describes the basic characteristics of a diverse and inclusive workplace, with support from scholarly resources.
Proficient
Describes the basic characteristics of a diverse and inclusive workplace.
Basic
Identifies the basic characteristics of a diverse and inclusive workplace or describes those that are not reflective of inclusiveness.
Non Performance
Does not identify the basic characteristics of a diverse and inclusive workplace.
Criterion 5
Explain the benefits of promoting and supporting diversity within an organization using scholarly resources.
Distinguished
Explains the benefits of promoting and supporting diversity within an organization, using scholarly resources that include specific examples of where it has worked.
Proficient
Explains the benefits of promoting and supporting diversity within an organization, using scholarly resources.
Basic
Explains the benefits of promoting and supporting diversity within an organization.
Non Performance
Does not explain the benefits of promoting and supporting diversity within an organization.
Criterion 6
Create an organized presentation that clearly communicates all specified content.
Distinguished
Creates an organized presentation that clearly communicates all specified content, using effective visuals and detailed descriptive speaker’s notes.
Proficient
Creates an organized presentation that clearly communicates all specified content.
Basic
Creates a somewhat disorganized organized presentation that poorly communicates content.
Non Performance
Does not create a presentation.