Synopsis for Presentation

Often when we have to deliver a formal presentation before our peers, co-worker s, clients, or organizational leaders, we are required to create a synopsis of the presentation in a single page or less. For the Discussion post for this week you will be writing a synopsis that is 200-250 words (about 2 paragraphs). To do this, it is often helpful to review your presentation notes and highlight the 3-5 most important ideas you want to address. Then, highlight the benefits associated with knowing the information you are presenting. Using these lists, write your synopsis.

Read a selection of your colleagues' postings.

Assignment

Final Project

PowerPoint Presentation: Strategic Planning Visioning Session

This week you reflect on the culmination of your work in this course. Now is the time to showcase your learning as a leader, visionary, and strategic planner! It is important to build collaborative understanding and support with your stakeholders to develop and sustain a strategic plan. In the role of leader, you develop and lead a Strategic Visioning Session with your stakeholders. To do this, you develop a PowerPoint presentation with narrative voiceover, transitions, and notes for each slide.

Using a 15- to 20-slide PowerPoint presentation (PPT), develop a strategic planning visioning session with a government or nonprofit organization's board of directors or executive staff. Consider how you will collaboration collaborative environment among with all levels of the organization to sustain the vision from executive leadership.

In the role of leader and futurist during this imaginary session, you collaborate with the organizational and community stakeholders to move the organization in a new direction or to stay the current course, depending upon the organization's mission, goals, and the imaginary visioning session. This is a time to envision the future and the potential for creating a viable outlook.

Presentation content: Include a minimum of one slide for each of the following. (Note: You may use more slides depending on your presentation.) Below is a list of slides to include in the presentation and the questions you should respond to in your audio portion.

Mission: The current organization's mission

What are the mission, basic philosophy, and core values of the organization?

Stakeholders: Organizational chart with key staff and internal and external stakeholders with titles

Who are the key staff and internal stakeholders you would involve in this process, and why?

Who are the external stakeholders that you would involve, and why?

How will you use strategic and scenario planning to effect strategic change in the organization? Summarize the advantages and disadvantages of each planning tool.

Process: Summarize the step-by-step process you will utilize when working with a board of directors or executive staff to conduct scenario planning. This can be a chart or model that you create.

What types of questions might you ask to develop your framing questions?

How will you negotiate agreement among key internal, and perhaps external, decision makers about the overall planning effort?

External Environment: Identify the external future environmental influences on your organization within the next 5, 10, and 20 years.

What are the political, economic, social, cultural, technological, and natural trends or driving forces that may impact your organization? (This slide should include scholarly and professional literature from multiple sources.)

Strategic Goals: Imagine that you have completed a strategic planning and scenario planning process; identify the possible strategic goals of your organization.

What are two strategic goals the organization would like to accomplish in the next 5 years, and why?

What are two strategic goals the organization would like to accomplish 10 years from now, and why?

How do these goals have a positive impact on your community, nation, or region?

Scenarios: Imagine you have completed the scenario planning process. Build one scenario of a possible future for your organization in 20 years that is plausible and robust and that considers unpredictable events.

Identify at least one alternative scenario to the one created based on your previous analysis of future trends that would be a "surprise."

(Use contemporary scholarly and professional resources beyond the references in the course. Use the Walden Library and scholarly peer reviewed information from professional organizations and government agencies for additional information.)

References: A reference slide(s) in APA formatting listing all references used in the creation of the PPT.

Presentation Formatting:

Include 15-20 slides.

Include page numbers.

Condense wording so bulleted information stays on one line.

Use images to engage the audience.

Use the "Notes" portion of each slide to create narrative detail with in-text citations.

Use voiceover to narrate the presentation; the presentation should be between 12 and 15 minutes.

Use a reference slide(s) in APA formatting.

Create a presentation that is scholarly, professional, and an example of executive leadership.