A61A00200 - Business Communication Skills, 04.05.2020-08.06.2020

A4: Persuasive Team Presentation (15%)

The presentation will be given in the same teams you had in A1.

Note that the assignment has several steps with different deadlines and submission boxes. These are explained below.

With your team, do the following:

1.     Choose any business-related topic

• Business-related can be understood here rather broadly as being related to business world or business student world. 
• Submit the topic and the preliminary title to MyCourses (into this task’s own submission box) by May 11, 21:00.

2.     Plan a 10-minute persuasive team presentation.

• Think carefully about your goals, your argumentation structure and your storyline to make sure your presentation is persuasive (why) and NOT informational (how).
• Remember to act as yourselves to your real audience. Do not come up with imaginary roles for your team or your audience.

3.     Design creative visuals that enhance your oral message. 

• Submit your draft visuals to MC by Jun 1, 9:00 in TWO places:
• Assignments; A4: Team Presentation Draft Slides
• Peer Feedback Workshops: A4: Team Presentation Draft Slides - Peer review – NOTE: everyone needs to submit this individually as the submission type here does not consider groups.

4.     Give feedback to 2 other teams’ visuals.

• Do this through the peer review workshop by Jun 2, 9:00
• The feedback session opens Jun 1, 10:30. This is individual work, and I will evaluate the quality of the feedback given.
• You will get time to work on this also during the class but don’t count on that time too much! Start reviewing already before the class, if at all possible.

5.     Rework and modify your presentation message and visuals based on the feedback.

6.     Prepare a video of your presentation.

• The video needs to be about 10 minutes long (not 7 or not 13 min).
• It must include sections in which each team member speaks to the audience (= the camera is on the face, no slides shown)
• It also must include sections in which your slides are in focus (= the camera is on the visuals, using share screen function, the face is shown in a small window)
• You need to focus on making the presentation appealing through interesting and simple visuals, rich use of your voice (not being monotonous) and gripping content with very clear arguments and audience benefits.
• Since you cannot (should not) meet each other, you can make the sections separately and then edit the clips so that you get a coherent and seamless presentation. Remember introductions and transitions between the team members!
• You can use e.g. Zoom or Panopto to make your videos. Video editing tools can also be found easily.

• You can look for inspiration and guidelines, e.g. here:

• Upload your final slides and your presentation video in MyCourses by Jun 8, 12:00 in separate boxes:
• Slides to A4: Team Presentation Final Slides
• Video to A4: Team Presentation VIDEO – Note: submit the video but also copy the video link to the text box open. Or in case you have problems uploading the video, just copy the link in the text box

7.     Join our final Zoom session on Jun 8 to watch all the videos together and give feedback both via the chat function and orally.

A4 presentation grading criteria: 

Please see the evaluation rubric in the A4 final version submission box or under Materials/Rubrics.