Strayer JWI505 Assignment 3 Presentation Design and Delivery

JWI 505: Business Communication and Executive Presence
Academic Submissions and Evaluation

Assignment 3: Presentation Design and Delivery

Due Week 9, Sunday (Weight: 25%)

“The art of communication is the language of
leadership.” James Humes

For this assignment, you will apply the practices of
planning, creating, and delivering an impactful professional presentation.
Identify an important presentation coming up at work in your near future. If
you don’t have one on the horizon, choose a worthy topic for your role,
business, or industry. This could be a presentation at a conference, or to your
board, your management team, your own team, or a few key decision-makers in your
organization.

Instructions

Prepare a PowerPoint presentation slide deck of 20 slides or
less. Apply slide design best practices: use minimal text, include images
and/or charts, and format slides professionally.

1. Deliver a
6-8 minute presentation, using Zoom. The video must include you and your
slides. (See your Blackboard course for instructions on using Zoom.)

2. Your
presentation will be assessed using the below criteria:

a. Objectives
are clear.

b. An impactful
opening statement is used to engage the audience, set context, and/or create
relevant meaning for the audience.

c. Delivery
exhibits strong, professional stage presence, confident body posture,
authenticity, appropriate tone, demonstration of passionate purpose, and
connection to audience (feels more like a conversation than a speech).

d. Communication
is clear, targeted, succinct, and utilizes the beginning and end effectively.

e. Presenter is
the focus. Slides serve only as visual aids to support the objective.

f. Presenter
is professional in look (appropriate business attire, distance to computer,
angle, and setting with neutral, non-distracting surroundings).

Professional Formatting Requirements:

• Include a
PowerPoint cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student
name(s), the professor’s name, the course title, and the date.

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JWI 505: Business Communication and Executive Presence
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Assignment 3: Rubric

Weight: 25% Assignment
3: Presentation Design and Delivery

Criteria Unsatisfactory Low Pass Pass High Pass Honors

1. Slide deck The
slide deck The slide deck The slide deck The
slide deck The slide deck

follows design does not
follow follows some satisfactorily follows completely excellently

best practices, design
best but not all of the most of the design follows the design follows the design

supports the practices
and design best best practices, and best
practices, best practices,

student’s does
not support practices and it provides good and it provides and
it provides

presentation. the
student’s provides limited support for the strong, targeted exemplary

presentation. support for the student’s support for
the support for the

student’s presentation. student’s student’s

Weight: 40% presentation. presentation. presentation.

2. Delivers an Does
not or meet Partially meets Satisfactorily meets Completely meets Exemplarily

engaging, clear, the
criteria. the criteria. the criteria. Includes the criteria. meets the criteria.

and professional Does
not include Includes some most of these: clear Presentation has Presentation
has

presentation that but
not all of objectives, an

clear
objectives or clear
objectives clear objectives

meets the these:
clear engaging opening

an engaging and an engaging and an excellent

assessment objectives,
an statement, clear

opening opening opening

criteria. engaging communication, and

statement; statement. statement.

opening an adequate

student
fails to

statement,
clear professional Student Student

communicate

Weight: 40% communication, presence. communicates communicates

clearly and
does

and
a clearly and has a clearly and has

not have a

professional strong an excellent

professional

presence. professional professional

presence.

presence. presence.

3. The video has The
video does The video has a The video has a The video has a The video has an

a professional not
have a partially satisfactorily good, strong extremely

look and feel. It professional
look professional professional look professional look professional
look

adheres to the and
feel. It is over look and feel. It and feel. It may be and feel. It may and feel.

6-8 minute the 8
minute time is over the 8 over the 8 minute be over the 8 It
also adheres to

minute
time time limit, but by no minute time limit,

timeframe. limit
by more than the
6-8 minute

limit,
but by no more than 1 minute. but by no more

2 minutes. time
limit.

more
than 2 than 30 seconds.

Weight: 20% minutes.

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contains Strayer University confidential and proprietary information and may
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part, without the expressed written permission of Strayer University. This
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