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The Term Project is a presentation on a management communication topic of your choosing. You will conduct research and then develop and deliver a presentation.

Create a Narrated audio presentation using Powerpoint for PC or Keynote for the Mac of your findings. This is the most commonly selected approach for this assignment, and likely the easiest to do. See tips, below).

Your presentation should be 8-10 minutes and at minimum 4 slides. Your slides should include proper citation of source (research) material.

Since you will be spending time researching, developing a point of view, and presenting on this topic, please choose something that you are passionate about. There are many options. You may choose from the list below, or you may identify another topic that qualifies. If you select a topic that is not on the list, just seek my approval first.

Term Paper Topics

Communication industry trends and opportunities over the next 3 years.

Exploration of leadership versus management

Managing and motivating change in organizations.

Best practices in team building and team functioning.

Managing and communicating with influence without formal authority

Differences between great management and great leadership

Management By Walking Around (MBWA)

Creating the best resumes on the Internet.

Evaluation of communication styles of Barack Obama and other leaders in areas of leadership, inspiration, consensus-building, and style/approach.

Principles of Non-Violent Communications

Communicating across multiple generations (e.g., Gen Y with Baby Boomers) in the workplace: challenges and opportunities.

The creation of a diversity program.

Trends in workforce globalization and the increase in multi-cultural workforce.

Personality types and how they relate to communication.

New ideas for creating graphics with new technology.

360-Degree Evaluations

Writing and communicating a business plan (How-to), to investors, partners, and organization employees.

Speaking on camera.

Negotiation skills and strategies.

Working and communicating effectively with persons with disabilities.

General Notes on Developing Your Slides and Presentation

Term projects are designed to reflect research as well as demonstrate effective presentation skills, including organization, content and delivery.

There is no one perfect way to present. It is important to harness your strengths and honor your own style.

Brainstorm, outline and organize your presentation (see organization tips in the textbook and further below).

Select a topic, then set up the major subdivisions. Your topic should relate to management communications (see example topics, above).

Remember to support your points, be specific (use examples, statistics, quotes, etc) and reference your sources. Include brief citations in-slide (name and year) and full citations on the Reference List at the end of your presentation.

Feel free to get creative!

Organization of Your Final Product

As you will read in the textbook, there are different ways to organize a presentation and paper, but here is a common one to consider:

Introduction: The key to a good introduction is to introduce the topic briefly and to outline the structure of the presentation or paper.

Start with a grabber like a meaningful story, or a provocative quote or compelling statement, or humor. In other words, make the audience want to hear the presentation. Remember the WIFM (What's In it For Me) question in the audience's mind.

Purpose of presentation

Organization of presentation

Transition

II. Summary (Background/General)

Set the stage (using 2-3 major points)

Transition

III. Subdivision

Introduce the subdivision topic

Cover all major issues

Summarize

Transition

IV. Subdivision

Same, etc.

V. Subdivision

same, etc.

VI. Conclusion/Recommendations

Restate purpose

Synthesize main points

Conclude/recommend

Memorable closing (see the Grabber/Intro for ideas)!!

A note on footnotes: I want to see the sources for your research. There should be an average of at least one Reference Note per slide or written page.

Sources: You should cite at least three different independent sources (and not including google, wikipedia, the dictionary and the like) for your research. You may cite the text, but you still need three other sources. Remember: this is a research project.