Define the essential components of effective communication.

Assignment task This assignment seeks to assess your understanding of business communication and the skills you have acquired during your study in relation to how this helps in the operation and management of a business. Your Summative Assessment will be an annotated presentation (1500 words in speaker notes) that allows you to demonstrate your communication skills of the contemporary challenges or issues faced by businesses. This assignment has been designed to provide you with an opportunity to demonstrate your achievement of the following module learning outcomes: LO 1 Define the essential components of effective communication; LO 2 Prepare an evidence-based presentation on a topic agreed in class; LO 3 Defend your presentation in a question-and-answer session; LO 4 Reflect on any feedback and how you could improve your next presentation. Task requirements OVERVIEW: Presentation,1500 words Following the assignment brief and guide, prepare an evidence-based business presentation and deliver. You will then reflect on the presentation feedback and highlight how you can improve next presentation. Module code and title: Business Communication Module leader: Dr Kabir Hossain Assignment No. and type: Presentation Slides (1500 words speaker notes) Assessment weighting: 100% Submission time and date: Monday 13 th June 2022 before 2pm Target feedback time and date: 3 weeks from the date of final submission Assignment Brief Academic Year 2022-23 DESCRIPTION OF THE TASK – WHAT YOU ARE BEING ASKED TO DO? 1. Each student will be required to prepare and deliver a 10-minute PowerPoint presentation in class to the peer students and teacher on one of the following topics: 1.1 Communicating during a global pandemic and the potential issues. 1.2 Communicating with employees about significant company changes. 1.3 Negotiating an international and cross-cultural IT business deal. 1.4 Complaining as a group of employees about a policy or procedure. 2. Using the personal feedback from the lecturer on your presentation – reflect on how you can improve your next presentation. Your reflection will be based on the following questions: a. What went well in your presentation? b. What improvements need to be made and why? c. What action will you take to make suggested improvements? 3. When getting ready to upload your work on Moodle, you must transfer PowerPoint presentation to Word. Copy image of slides, but type notes into Word document. 4.You should research broadly to develop a fully evidenced and referenced PowerPoint presentation slides with notes. The presentation should make use of visual aids appropriate to the business context and audience of the topic. You will be asked to ‘defend’ your presentation in a Q&A session. In developing the presentation, you should think about: • your audience (based on the topic given) and appropriate modes of engaging them. • the kind of language you use in the presentation. • clarity in language, speech, and visuals • the level of detail you provide in visuals and in your notes. • time management (making sure you get through what you need to in the time provided) • what is missing in the work – it is often not possible to cover everything so you will have to choose what you leave out or only touch on; you might think about signalling this as something to come back to in the Q&A Assignment Brief Academic Year 2022-23 • what kinds of questions you might be asked in the Q&A.? Referencing and research requirements You must reference all information used in the presentation and the report, using the Harvard Referencing Guide. You are required to include ONLY ONE reference list page at the end of the report arranged in alphabetical order irrespective of the sources and ONE Appendix page following the reference list page. You can access guidance to Harvard referencing here: https://libguides.uos.ac.uk/academic/referencing/Harvard