Diversity Project Kickoff Assignment

Tips for Completing Assessment 2 

In Assessment 2 you will create a 6 – 8 slide presentation (with detailed speaker’s notes) on how you will select, foster collaboration among, and educate a team dedicated to solving a diversity issue. You will find many great articles included in the Assessment Resources. Read them! Diversity Project Kickoff Assignment

As you begin your work on Assessment 2, be sure to download the PowerPoint Template, as this is the format you will be using for this assessment. The Assessment 2 Example and the Scoring Guide are very helpful tools – study both carefully! In fact, I encourage you to study these documents as you begin your PowerPoint planning, during your research and construction of the content, and prior to submission of the assessment.

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Remember, this is a PowerPoint that could be presented to your audience in 5-7 minutes. Be sure to address the key elements of the assessment:

  • Project goals, priorities and why they are important.
  • Team composition.
  • Your role and how the committee will function
  • Characteristics of diversity in the workplace.
  • Benefits of a diverse workforce based on current research.
  • Integrate 2-3 scholarly or professional sources to support your content (sources embedded in the assessment are great options). In other words, be sure to cite content within the speaker notes and or on the slides. Finally, please include a reference slide.

 

Create a 5–7 slide presentation (with detailed speaker’s notes) on how you would select, foster collaboration among, and educate a team dedicated to solving a diversity issue. Diversity Project Kickoff Assignment

Assessments 1 and 2 are scenario-based, so you must complete them in the order in which they are presented.

Finding, organizing, and motivating teams is a key leadership skill as is the ability to communicate and present information.

By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:

Competency 1: Apply qualities, skills and practices used by effective healthcare leaders.

Outline goals and initial priorities that reasonably reflect the project.

Competency 2: Apply practices that facilitate effective interprofessional collaboration.

Outline a plan that effectively fosters interprofessional group collaboration.

Competency 3: Apply ethical codes and diversity best practices in health care organizations.

Define the composition of a team with characteristics that could effectively address a diversity issue.

Describe the basic characteristics of a diverse and inclusive workplace.

Explain the benefits of promoting and supporting diversity within an organization using scholarly resources.

Competency 4: Produce clear, coherent, and professional written work,

Create an organized presentation that clearly communicates all specified content.

Required Resources

The following resources are required to complete the assessment.

PowerPoint Template. Use this template to complete your presentation for this week’s assessment.

Overview

In this assessment you will continue your work on the project by creating a 5–7 slide PowerPoint presentation for the diversity project kickoff meeting.

Preparation

View the PowerPoint Presentation Instructions for guidelines and hints for an effective presentation. Diversity Project Kickoff Assignment

Download the PowerPoint Template found in the resources and use it to complete this assessment.

Scenario

Imagine that Lynette follows up with you in an e-mail shortly after reading your views on leadership and collaboration:

Hi,

Thanks for sending me your thoughts last week on the diversity issue at the clinic. Your next step is to select a team of professionals who can help you in this project and prepare an introduction of the project for a first meeting with them.

I want you to prepare a presentation to serve as a brief, but substantive introduction for the first meeting with a group of 4–5 members who will participate on the committee tasked with addressing the diversity issue. Once I review more information about the proposed team I can help you with the recruitment. The presentation should be 5–7 minutes and use 6–8 slides with detailed speaker’s notes so I can understand your approach. Not a lot of time or space, so keep things pretty high level. Do the following:

1.Briefly outline the project goals and highlight 2–3 of the initial priorities to be addressed by the group. Also, explain why they are important.

2.Explain the composition of the team and why you chose them. Note that you will not know the exact individuals yet but assume we will recruit the people with the desired qualities and characteristics that you outline in the presentation. Consider the following:

Include a group of professionals you believe can help define the problem and ultimately make recommendations on how to address it.

Make sure each member is either trained in, sensitive to, or has experience with the concept of workplace diversity.

Give some thought to having some members from outside the organization.

Provide member profiles: their diversity, qualifications, experience, internal versus external, and so forth.

  1. Explain your role and describe how the committee will work together and achieve effective interprofessional collaboration.

Describe how the group will communicate. How and when they will meet. Diversity Project Kickoff Assignment

Describe how ideas will be shared and decisions made.

Describe roles, group function, and structure.

  1. Describe the basic characteristics of a diverse workplace.
  2. Provide a convincing argument regarding the benefits of a diverse workforce using support from current research.

Thanks,

Lynette

Instructions

Create a 5–7 slide presentation in response to the content defined in the above scenario and submit it in the courseroom.

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Presentation Guidelines

Length: 5–7 PowerPoint slides (not including title slide) that would accompany an approximately 5-minute oral presentation.

Notes: Prepare detailed speaker’s notes describing items on each slide so that the viewer can accurately interpret the deeper meanings and intentions that would have been conveyed orally. Support your claims, arguments, and conclusions with credible evidence from 2–3 current, scholarly or professional sources.

Visuals: Create visuals that are easily read and interpreted. Use colors, fonts, and formatting and other design principles that make the information clear and generally add to the aesthetic of the presentation.

Please refer to the scoring guide for details on how your assessment will be evaluated.

Suggested Resources

The resources provided here are optional. You may use other resources of your choice to prepare for this assessment; however, you will need to ensure that they are appropriate, credible, and valid.

 

Diversity and Cultural Competence

Diversity, inclusion, cultural competence must be a focus of all health care professionals. The following resources discuss the importance of diversity and the role of a leader.

Dreachslin, J. L., Weech-Maldonado, R., Gail, J., Epané, J. P., & Wainio, J. A. (2017). Blueprint for sustainable change in diversity management and cultural competence: Lessons from the National Center for Healthcare Leadership diversity demonstration project. Journal of Healthcare Management, 62(3), 171–183. Diversity Project Kickoff Assignment

Gotsis, G., & Grimani, K. (2016). Diversity as an aspect of effective leadership: Integrating and moving forward. Leadership & Organization Development Journal, 37(2), 241–264.

Downey, S. N., Werff, L., Thomas, K. M., & Plaut, V. C. (2015). The role of diversity practices and inclusion in promoting trust and employee engagement. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 45(1), 35–44.

Debiasi, L. B., & Selleck, C. S. (2017).  Cultural competency training for primary care nurse practitioners: An intervention to increase culturally competent care. Journal of Cultural Diversity, 24(2), 39–45.

Holck, L., Muhr, S. L., & Villesèche, F. (2016). Identity, diversity and diversity management: On theoretical connections, assumptions and implications for practice. Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal, 35(1), 48–64.

Lawton, D. S., & Carlos Tasso, E. D. A. (2016). Diversity in the workplace and the impact of work values on the effectiveness of multi-generational teams. I-Manager’s Journal on Management, 10(3), 20–28.

Culture, Diversity, and Out-Groups in Leadership.

Complete this survey to help identify your attitudes toward out-group members and to explore how you, as a leader, respond to members of the out-group.

Leadership and Teambuilding

The textbook references below provide information on team-building and collaboration.

Rubino, L. G., Esparza, S. J., & Reid Chassiakos, Y. S. (2020). New leadership for today’s health care professionals: Concepts and cases (2nd ed.). Burlington, MA: Jones & Bartlett Learning. Available in the courseroom via the VitalSource Bookshelf link.

Chapter 7, “Building a Successful Team.”

Chapter 9, “Collaborative Leadership.” Diversity Project Kickoff Assignment