This assignment provides an opportunity for you to create anexecutive-level presentation explaining how SMART objectives underlyingeach organizational strategy can help the organization successfullyimplement its strategic plan. Then, after sharing the key performanceindicators you developed off the strategic plan, you will use this‘balanced scorecard’ to make recommendations to revise the threedirectional strategies you developed in Unit 7.

By successfully completing this assignment, you will demonstrateyour proficiency in the following course competencies and assignmentcriteria:

• Competency 1: Analyze organizational structure, design, culture, and climate in relation to environmental forces.
  • Analyze potential long-term opportunities and operational components in the strategic planning process.
• Competency 2: Develop a strategic organizational plan thatprovides human and financial resources to support targetedorganizational outcomes.
  • Present operational recommendations and strategic control mechanisms.
  • Define critical success indicators that enable an organization to measure success in implementing a strategy.
  • Analyze the effect of strategy formulation on human, financial, and technical resources.
• Competency 3: Recommend an organizational structure and design to optimize a strategic plan.
  • Propose a strategic plan to optimize outcomes and mitigate risks in an organization.
• Competency 4: Communicate in a manner that is scholarly,professional, and consistent with expectations for professionals inhealth care administration.
  • Create a visually pleasing, professional presentation tailored to a specific audience.
  • Communicate critical content clearly and persuasively in a limited time.

Scenario

In your weekly one-on-one meeting your boss congratulates you onthe comprehensive and well-researched work you have done to date. TheCEO has been working with the rest of the organization’s leadership teamto adopt the overarching strategies for the organization that your bossrecommended. However, your boss and CEO are seeking clarification onhow to translate these strategies into meaningful benchmarks, orperformance measures. They want to know how the organization willmeasure progress in following these strategies. In previous discussionswith your boss, you have been describing the SMART methodology forwriting objectives that support the overarching strategies. She hasasked you to share the SMART objectives you have written for eachstrategy with the CEO in a brief presentation.

You are ready to begin creating your presentation and the slidesthat you will use to support your key points and conclusions. Your bossreminds you that the CEO expects a brief, substantive, and concisepresentation. You will be lucky to get 15 minutes of the CEO’s time.Consequently, she suggests that you include no more than 10–12 slides,or you will run out of time and cautions you about not creating a “deathby PowerPoint” experience for the CEO. You already know from experiencethat your organization expects professional presentations that adhereto the organization’s branding standards.

Instructions

Create an executive-level presentation, with voiceover, of theSMART objectives that correspond to the organization’s main strategies,associated performance indicators and metrics, and strategic planrecommendations.

Practice your presentation until you are satisfied with it, stayingas close as possible to the limited time allotted. Remember that theaudience is your organization’s CEO. All the work you have done so farin this course has prepared you for this briefing, but you are ready.

Presentation Requirements

The requirements, outlined below, correspond to the gradingcriteria in the Strategic Plan Objectives and Balanced Scorecard ScoringGuide, so be sure to address each point. Read the performance-leveldescriptions for each criterion to see how your work will be assessed.

• Present your operational recommendations and strategic control mechanisms.
  • Include goals, objectives, resources, and action steps forreconfiguring and aligning the organization’s structure, systems, sharedvalues, management style, staff, and skills.
• Define critical success indicators that enable an organization to measure success in implementing the strategy.
• Propose a strategic plan to optimize outcomes and mitigate risks in the organization.
• Analyze potential long-term opportunities and operational components in the strategic planning process.
• Analyze the effect of strategy formulation on human, financial, and technical resources.
  • Weigh factors of measurement against current organizational benchmarks.
• Create a visually pleasing, professional presentation tailored to a specific audience.
  • Use charts and/or images that support the content.
• Communicate critical content clearly and persuasively in a limited time.

Presentation Format and Length

Your presentation should consist of 10–12 slides and be 10–15minutes in length. Use the notes portion of each slide to write yourscript (the notes section is required).

You may use the structure below as a guide for organizing and timing your presentation. You do not need to place your slides in this specific order.

• Slide 1: Title slide (15 seconds).
• Slide 2: Revised/updated directional strategies (vision, mission, and values) from the Unit 7 assignment. (30 seconds).
• Slide 3: Gap analysis: desired versus actual position (1 minute).
• Slide 4: Recommend Overarching Strategy One with three objectives (2 minutes).
• Slide 5: Recommend Overarching Strategy Two with three objectives (2 minutes).
• Slide 6: Recommend Overarching Strategy Three with three objectives (2 minutes).
• Slide 7: Recommend Overarching Strategy Four with three objectives (2 minutes).
• Slide 8: Visual: Balanced scorecard table with 1–3 performance indicators and associated metrics (1 minute).
• Slide 9: Analysis (1 minute).
• Slide 10: Recommendation of new strategic plan strategies based on the balanced scorecard (1 minute).
• Slide 11: Overall recommendations/conclusions (1 minute).
• Slide 12: References.

Include all relevant supporting details, such as data, charts, andgraphs, as an addendum to the presentation. Indicate the slideassociated with the relevant data set. In addition, include all relevantdata and narrative in the notes section of each slide.

Supporting Evidence

Cite a minimum of six references to current scholarly andauthoritative sources to support your presentation. Format yourcitations and references according to APA style and formattingguidelines.

Submission Requirements

Proofread your slides and addendum, before you submit them, tominimize errors that could distract readers and make it more difficultfor them to focus on the substance of your presentation.

Portfolio Prompt: You may choose to save your presentation to your ePortfolio.

Resources

• Strategic Plan Objectives and Balanced Scorecard Scoring Guide.
• ePortfolio.
• Using Kaltura [PDF].