Strategic Planning Implementation and Evaluation DQ
Strategic Planning Implementation and Evaluation DQ
Building on the Strategic Planning and Development assignment from Week 3, prepare a 10-slide Microsoft PowerPoint presentation, with narration, of your plan to present to the executive committee.
In this assignment, use the health care organization you selected in your Week 3 assignment. Determine why you are embarking on this strategic planning process, (securing funding, establishing and focusing on organizational priorities, and so on). In this presentation:
Establish a clear vision for the strategic planning process.
Paint a picture of where your organization will be going and of your desired outcomes.
Ensure the picture is reality and not just what you or your executive committee may want to have happen.
Make certain the strategic plan allows employees to know why the organization is changing.
Assignment Format
Your 10-slide PowerPoint presentation should follow this format:
Slide 1: Cover Slide
Include the title of your presentation, your name, the course number and course title, your professor’s name, the university’s name, and the date.
Slide 2: Background/Executive Summary
The title of this slide should be Executive Summary.
Describe the details of the situation.
Use bullets with short phrases.
Slide 3: Thesis Statement
The title of this slide should be Thesis Statement.
Identify the focus of your research.
Slides 4–9: Support
Support your thesis statement following the SESC formula: state, explain, support, and conclude. (Use Sublevel 1 and 2 Headings to provide coherence and organization.)
Provide in-text citations using the format in the Strayer Writing Standards.
Slides should be concise—basically no more than seven bullets per slide and no more than seven words per bullet.
Most information in a PowerPoint presentation should be contained within the notes section.
Slide 10: References
Locate at least three peer-reviewed journal articles to support your work. For example, to identify clinical quality that does not compare to other hospitals, see the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Hospital Compare site.
Use Strayer Writing Standards format for your references.
You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.
Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.
Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.
The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.