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If i was supervising a new employee I would tell them that it is most important to pay very careful attention to the structure of their communication. The first thing that I would advise this new employee would be to keep his message as consice as possible. Secondly, I would suggest a focus on is readability and maximizing white space, with no more than 7 lines per paragraph. The last piece of advice would be to ensure sufficient knowledge of the audience and tailoring the presentation to ensure that it captures the attention and interest of as many audience menbers as possible.

In order to effectively prepare for our group presentation, we have convened several times to discuss the progress of our report and presentation. From the beginning, we assigned work based on the sections of the proposal that were to be written and presented. Each group member was assigned a section and asked to create bullet points of their section (limited to 2 or 3 slides) that they would discuss during the presentation. The contect of the presentation is a more consice version of the report but mostly contains the same information. We will build credibility and persuade the audience by discussing the gravity of the situation that we are looking to address and the research that led us to considering our project. The leadership communication style we will likely employ is that of direction setter.

Our group’s social entrepreneur proposal is based on smoking cessation programs created and run by the government and other non-profit agencies. Smoking is a very important and serious public health concern and we would like to address smokers from a slightly different angle. Most of today’s cessation intervention programs focus on motivating people to quit smoking by pointing out the health risks of smoking. However we propose, based on recent research, that an economic focus would be more effective at really motivating smokers to quit. This project would be very important to society because it will address a widespread and serious health issue and will do so from a unique and novel perspective. There is significant funding provided by many government agencies to combat smoking and we do not feel that we will have much trouble securing financial resources for the project, especially given the relatively low cost of our proposed project.

I believe that our group did an excellent job with this presentation. Each group member had a very clear and direct transition to the next and all maintained constant eye contact. The body language was very relaxed, almost a bit too relaxed, likely owing to the comfort level among classmates. A bit more structure in terms of body language and placement, especially of group members who were not speaking, would probably have helped the presentation. Otherwise, I feel that the presentation was both well designed and presented.