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COM 510 Business Communications - Strayer University

Topic - Internal Promotion

Assignment - Verbal Communication

Overview

From quick conversations to phone calls, meetings, formal presentations, and sales pitches, you must always employ effective verbal communication skills. While verbal interactions are extremely common, they can also be stressful. Every interaction contains the potential for success-and the danger of failure. To be "on your game" always requires purposeful practice, reflection, and adjustment based on input and feedback. No matter what your verbal communication skills are, you can improve them.

In this assignment, you will develop and deliver a 5-minute presentation. This verbal communication should match the challenge or opportunity topic that you wrote about for your Week 4 outline and Week 8 Assignment.

Note: For the purposes of this course, your presentation should not exceed 5 minutes. (Your communication proposal might require a much longer presentation, but limit your response to the key 5 minutes in this case.) Imagine that you are before your target audience and pitching the idea.

Instructions

Prepare your presentation:

Write a script for your presentation using feedback from Assignment 2, considering your 5-minute limit.

The script should include:
An engaging introduction. Start with an impactful opening story, statistic, or statement.

The key message and support for the key message. Include five or more compelling stories, statistics, or facts, using sources to meet the goals and needs of the audience. enough information to support your argument.

Present a clear and actionable call to action, using a strong action verb, at the appropriate time in the presentation.

Template for Outline

1. Description:
a. The opportunity for me is to get an internal promotion.
b. This is professionally important as it will improve my reputation in the workplace. An internal promotion will improve my skill set, will give me the knowledge that my employer values my hard work and is ready to offer me the correct step to showcase my skills. An internal promotion will help me professionally as it can boost my morale, help me to concentrate on the work that I love to do and thus improve my productivity at work. I believe that an internal promotion will boost my career graph which can keep the productivity of the company high. If I believe that I will be promoted, then I will stay in the company for longer and be loyal to the workplace (Hamza, 1). I will also help the company to reach its target goals. I believe that an internal promotion will help me professionally as I will learn new skills and expertise.

2. Goal:
a. An internal promotion will help me achieve the goal of having a better salary, learning new skills and getting higher in the chain of command. Getting an internal promotion will make sure that I have a better career path and make sure that I am visible to the people who matter.
i. The communication goal is clear and achievable. It is concise as I want an internal promotion to get higher in the chain of command.

3. Audience:
a. The target audience is my office boss and executives who are responsible for promotions from within
i. The professional positions are the board of directors, team members, my immediate boos and executive members in the HR position.
ii. The audience will comprise of both males and females, management personnel who earn more than me and therefore are in an executive position, and the board members who have the educational qualification to make the call for promotion.
iii. I am an employee in the company seeking a promotion. Therefore the relationship is employee-boss.
iv. The audience knows about making the decisions as they are at a higher level of the workplace and can make decisions for the betterment of the company. They are acquainted with my work and has my CV based on which they can decide to promote me.
v. The audience knows me and has the necessary information that they require for this communication.
vi. As I have not worked in this company for long, my preconception is that this might stop the audience from promoting me. However, I have delivered all the projects within deadlines and the clients are satisfied.
b. What information is available about your audience?
i. I will use the company sources and annual reports to get an idea about the audience
ii. After reading the reports and company journals, I conclude that the audience takes their time to come to a decision and they decide fairly based on accomplishments.
c. What tone will you use to convey your message?
i. I will use a formal tone while talking to the audience
ii. The communication is personal as it will talk about my promotion.

4. Key Message:
a. The primary message is that I have worked hard and delivered all the targets that the company wanted in due time. My clients are happy and I believe that I know about the skills that my current position has. Therefore a promotion will expand my skills and boost my career graph and build my loyalty towards the company.

i. I think that the message is compelling as it lists my wants
ii. The message is concise and clear. It states in simple terms my goals and how they can benefit the company.
iii. I believe that the message is allied with the needs of the audience as my promotion will improve my efficiency which will, in turn, increase the productivity of the company.

5. Supporting Points:
Promoting from within a business assists keep efficiency high. New workers understand opportunities for progression and the possibility for development. If workers know there is a likely career path in the business, the company is less expected to lose talented employees to another business (Hamza, 1).
When promoting from within, administrators recognize natural leaders and prepare them for management spots. Most executives can recognize their top players; however, somebody who does well as a sales representative might not comprise the distinctiveness of leadership (Quaratino, 2).
Promoting from within can compel a business to expand core competencies for a particular position. This benefits the worker, who has an apparent consideration of potential, however, it moreover benefits the business, which has a superior standard by which to calculate employees performance (Ma, 3). Promoting from within provides directors and administrators a probability to assess employees cautiously, before making advice for a promotion.
i. I will use reputed and trusted websites that list the mutual benefits of internal promotion for a company and an employee. Channel Selection:

6. I will use the communication style of telling the upper management about my intention and goals. I think this will work as consulting might offer the management to reject my proposal instantly. Moreover discussing my promotion will result in delays (Ma, 3).
a. I will talk directly to the management about my message. I will email HR about the request as this is more formal.
b. The styles and channels that I have selected are formal and will be preferred by management.

7. Action Request:
a. My action request is to offer me a promotion as soon as possible.
b. The request is clear and concise and can be acted upon easily.

Attachment:- Outline_template.rar