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Homework: Influencing the Decision Maker

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You should consider adding this homework to your personal ePortfolio. This assessment demonstrates your ability to effectively convey information and persuade through storytelling. This skill is necessary in a professional setting when you are trying to make strategic recommendations. You will want to organize your homework to easily support future reflection and completion of your HRM capstone project as well as for showcasing your knowledge with employers after graduation. For more information on ePortfolio, visit the Campus ePortfolio page.

Competencies Measured

By successfully completing this homework, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies:

I. Competency I: Apply models of decision making to HR issues.

1. Explain the data gathered from the company.

II. Competency II: Apply the use of data and evidence-based decision making in HR decision making.

1. Make persuasive recommendations to drive employee performance in the direction desired by organizational strategy.

III. Competency III: Interpret data using storytelling to influence organizational decision makers.

1. Integrate storytelling to effectively communicate stated positions.
2. Use illustrative techniques to explain how recommendations made would improve quality and help to achieve strategic organizational goals.

IV. Competency IV: Communicate clearly, accurately, and professionally in the HR field.

1. Support main points and recommendations with relevant and credible evidence.
2. Address the appropriate audience, using familiar, discipline-specific language and terminology.

Prepare a 10 to 12 slides presentation that uses storytelling to explain data and make recommendations.

Storytelling is a valuable tool in all aspects of life, whether professional or personal. This is certainly true for human resource management. The best information in the world is meaningless if you are unable to effectively convey it. Storytelling can be used to engage an audience, convey information, and persuade. It can be used to illustrate complex concepts and emotions. In the ever-more significant field of HR, storytelling can positively impact your leadership position.

Note: For this homework, you will use the executive summary you created for your second homework, HR Challenge: Data for Decision Making: Measuring Organizational Performance.

Introduction

Scenario

Evelyn Unger, senior HR generalist at CapraTek, was very pleased with your executive summary on improving productivity and quality. She has now been approached by Denise Dawson, VP of Operations, to head a team to address improving quality through improved performance at CapraTek. Evelyn wants you to present your recommendations and findings to senior leadership in the organization.

Building on the data you analyzed and the recommendations you made in your executive summary in Assessment 2, HR Challenge: Data for Decision Making - Measuring Organizational Performance and Interpreting Data, you will create a PowerPoint with accompanying verbal (recorded) or written (text).

Tell a story. Why is this story of numbers important? Why should senior management care? How might the issues be addressed? In your executive summary, you made informed decisions. You now are making the best case you can for this plan. Include what you know about storytelling to make your case.

Your Challenge

Using the Capratek: Data for Decision Making - Measuring Organizational Performance simulation and your executive summary from Assessment 2, create a PowerPoint presentation with accompanying verbal (recorded) or written (text) to create a presentation to senior management of your recommendations.

Instructions

Prepare a 10 to 12 slides presentation that uses storytelling to explain data and make recommendations. Along with your recommendations, include the following:

Question 1. Explain the data gathered from the company.

Question 2. Explain the data you reviewed in the CapraTek simulation.

Question 3. Integrate storytelling to effectively communicate your stated positions.

Question 4. Make persuasive recommendations to drive employee performance in the direction desired by organizational strategy.

Question 5. Use the presented data that supports your view.

Question 6. Use illustrative techniques to explain how your recommendations would improve quality and help to achieve strategic organizational goals.

Question 7. Address other key issues (ROI, employee buy-in).

Question 8. Review the HR Challenge: Effective Storytelling: Influencing the Decision Makers Guide to see the criteria by which your homework will be evaluated.

The deliverable for this homework applies professional skills in human resources management (HRM) to workplace situations which you will likely encounter in your day-to-day work in HRM. As part of your learning, we focus on the development of effective professional communication skills for the workplace.