42E00500 - CEMS Business Communication Skills Seminar, 18.09.2019-20.09.2019

Schedule

• Schedule
  

  Schedule

  Welcome to the 42E00500 CEMS Business Communication Skills seminar workspace.
  

  Workload
  This is a 1 ECT course (27hrs): 12hrs contact teaching; 15hrs independent work
  

  Seminar format
  

  1. Pre-seminar preparation: readings and 2 assignments. Due midday, Friday, 4 October.
  2. Session 1: 12.00-16.30, Friday, 4 October (T003)
     
  3. Session 2: 13.30-17.00, Tuesday, 8 October (U135a)
     
  4. Session 3: 09.00 -12.30, Friday, 11 October (Meet at 08.40, reception, UPM HQ, Biofore Talo)

  
  

  SCHEDULE
  
  

  PRE-SEMINAR: Mandatory readings and 2 pre-seminar assignments (due midday, Friday, 4 October)
  

  1. Read Input 1: Strategic Contingency Model (SCM)
  2. Read Input 2: Reader-focused managerial writing
  3. Assignment 1: Analyse the Jackson’s DIY case and upload your analysis and strategy proposal to MyCourses by midday, Friday, 4 October.
  4. Assignment 2: Familiarise yourself with UPM (incl. code of conduct) and carry out a preliminary core stakeholder analysis. Upload your stakeholder analysis to MyCourses by midday, Friday, 4 October.
     

  
  

  SESSION 1: 4.10 (12.00-16.30)
  

  • Course overview: objectives, assignments, schedule
    
  • Strategic Contingency Model
  • Jackson's communication strategy: presentations and discussion
  • Preparing and delivering Jackson’s case messages
  • Introduction to UPM case: division into groups
    

  
  Preparation for session 2
  

  1. Read Input 3: Communicating sensitive messages 
     
  2. Read: ‘The 10 Commandments for Delivering Bad News’, Bies (2012); ‘The Secret of Communicating Bad News to Employees’, Ackley (1992); How Great Leaders Deliver Bad News, Anderson (2015)
     
  3. Read the UPM case an prepare your 10-minute recommendation presentation  (A2)
     

  
  SESSION 2: 8.10 (13.30-17.30)
  

  • Managerial writing: style and tone
  • Bad news messaging: writing and reviewing
  • Impromptu presentations: focus on content organisation
  • Preparing and delivering recommendation presentations
    

  
  Preparation for session 3
  

  1. Read Input 4: Preparing a recommendation presentation
  2. Read input 5: Creating effective visuals
  3. Finalise your 10-minute UPM presentation 
     

  
  SESSION 3: 11.10 (09.00-12.30)
  

  • Recommendation presentations at UPM Head Office
    
  • Meet at reception 08.40, Biofore Talo, Alvar Aallon katu 1
    

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