Assignment task: Workplace Communication
Imagine that you are an administrative assistant at a global corporation. Your office environment is home to many different cultures and age groups spanning several generations of employees.
You've been on-the-job for one year. There is a new administrative assistant being hired in another department. Since you're such a great communicator, your boss has asked you to create a PowerPoint presentation that summarizes the best interpersonal communication strategies to use in the workplace.
Task:
Use the template provided to create a 10-slide PowerPoint presentation that outlines best practices in communication. Please feel free to change the PowerPoint theme, as long as you do not use "Office Theme". Do not go over 10 slides.
Search online to find information related to each of the topics in the presentation outline and template. You can also use this lesson's textbook reading and the content in Brightspace, but you will need to find more information online to complete the 10 slides (i.e. not all of it is in the textbook).
Presentation Outline:
Your presentation should include the following slides (as laid out in the template). Each topic should be exactly one slide.
1. Title - Please add your name
2. Overview
3. Verbal Communication
4. Non-verbal Communication
5. Listening Skills
6. Communication Barriers
7. The Communication Process
8. Encoding a Message
9. Decoding a Message
10. References
Presentation Tips:Do not go over 10 slides.
- Keep all content on the slide and if you need more room then add more details in the Notes section of the slide (see the 'Click to Add Notes' area under each slide).
- Bullets are very popular and accepted for PowerPoint presentations.
- Make sure you have adequate detail on each slide. A few sentences on each slide will cause you to lose marks.
- You can include diagrams, but you need to explain them if you do.
- Make sure the fonts are easily readable. The text shouldn't be so small that the words are hard to read or overcrowded; they also shouldn't be so large that they overpower the slide.
- All references need to be added on Slide 10. You can make the fonts smaller if you need them to all fit on the slide.