Part II: PowerPoint Preparation As a manager, you will likely be expected to mak

Part II: PowerPoint Preparation
As a manager, you will likely be expected to make a PowerPoint presentation at least once in your career. Imagine that you are giving this PowerPoint presentation to upper management at your organization. In this assignment, you will prepare a narrated PowerPoint presentation which you will use as the basis of your employee training.
• PowerPoint concepts to consider
• Although you are unlikely to find agreement among the “PowerPoint pundits” who have posted tips and tricks on the Internet, there are a few basic concepts you may want to keep in mind as you design your slides:
• The 6 by 6 Rule – The basics of this “rule of thumb” is that each PowerPoint slide should have:
• 1 major idea
• A maximum of 6 bullet points
• A maximum of 6 words per bullet point.
• The 10/20/30 Rule – This rule was developed by venture capitalist Guy Kawasaki, who listened to countless presentations by those seeking venture capital. He suggests that PowerPoint presentations should:
• Have no more than approximately 10 slides, because it’s challenging to comprehend more than 10 concepts in a meeting
Last no longer than 20 minutes, because it’s difficult for people to listen to an hour-long presentation without letting their minds wander somewhere else.
• Use a 30-point font so that your audience doesn’t have to squint to read the slides. If you can’t fit the information on the slide using a 30-point font, you’re using too many words.
– Keep in mind that the rules listed above are simply “rules of thumb” and not strict guidelines for your PowerPoint presentation.
• Reference these resources as needed:
• 10 PowerPoint Tips to Make Your Slides More Effective – This website includes the Top Ten Slide Tips for preparing a PowerPoint presentation. You may find this site helpful in developing your M08 PowerPoint Presentation Assignment.
• Tips for Making Effective PowerPoint Presentations -This website includes tips for making effective PowerPoint presentations. You may find this site helpful in developing your M08 PowerPoint Presentation Assignment.
• The 10/20/30 Rule of PowerPoint – The website provides more information about venture capitalist Guy Kawasaki’s 10/20/30
Rule of PowerPoint. You may find this site helpful in developing your M08 PowerPoint Assignment.
• In Part I of this assignment in Module 5, you have already chosen one of the following topics and created your initial PowerPoint file:
• Module 1: Approaches to Decision Making
• Module 2: How Organizations Go International
• Module 3: Factors that Determine Ethical and Unethical Behavior
• Module 4: Types of Organizational Plans
• Module 5: Elements of Organizational Design
• Module 7: Contemporary Theories of Motivation
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• Create your Final PowerPoint Presentation
• Locate your PowerPoint file and review any feedback given by your instructor. Make sure that your instructor has approved your work up to this point. If not, seek clarification on what you need to do differently.
• Using the outline created in Part I of this assignment, create your final presentation, discussing the main points in your topic. Your presentation should be structured as follows:
• Title Page
• Body (around 8 slides)
• Closing Page (citing resources, using APA format)
• While you want to adhere to the guidelines set on keeping your text to a minimum on each slide, you will want to include substantive information in your presentation. You can include detailed text in the notes section of your PowerPoint. This can be used when narrating the assignment.
• It is good to use the textbook as one source, but you will need to cite a minimum of two (2) outside sources in addition to vour texthook. Please minimum of two (2) outside sources, in addition to your textbook. Please note: Wikipedia Is not considered an appropriate source for academic work, because anyone is allowed to be a contributor to the website. Scholarly articles are written by acknowledged experts and scholars in the field.
Accordingly, please do not use Wikipedia as a source for your academic papers and project.
• You must cite your sources according to APA formatting. You should be familiar with the APA writing format, as you have completed an assignment in Module 4, introducing this writing style. Make sure to refer back to the resources utilized in that assignment. Also, remember that you can seek help from the tutors at Tutor.com 24/7, by clicking the link on the left side of this course. Your local librarians are also a resource.
Don’t be afraid to reach out to learn this important format, as it will be utilized throughout business courses.
• Keep in mind that, in addition to addressing the information requirements of your topic, your slides should display elements of effective design in terms of fonts, colors, background, etc. The layout of your slides should be effective in terms of appropriate images, and text on slides should be clear and easy for audiences to read. Transitions between slides should be smooth and enhance your presentation. If you use other design elements such as
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• Narrate Final PowerPoint Presentation Add audio to your PowerPoint, talking through the entire presentation, outlining your title page, each slide in the body, and the closing page. If you included detailed information in the notes portion of your presentation, it will be helpful for this task. Here is a resource that will help:
• Adding Audio in PowerPoint Presentations – This website will give you step-by-step instructions on how to add audio to a PowerPoint presentation. You may find this site helpful in developing the narration for your M08
PowerPoint Presentation Assignment.
Submitting your Assignment:
• Click the Start Assignment button.
• Click the Choose File button and upload your PowerPoint file.
• Click the Submit Assignment button to submit.
Please note that your presentation will be submitted through Turnitin, a plagiarism prevention service. Turnitin compares submitted assignments against a set of sources (articles, documents, and other sources available on the Internet, as well as previous submissions by Ivy Tech students) to identify areas of overlap between the submitted assignment and existing works. You are allowed to view the Turnitin originality report for your assignment. You can get more information about Turnitin by reviewing the