Deliverable 7 – professional presentation: art and creativity at work

Competency

Synthesize content from the individual course modules. Your content should expand, elaborate and evolve from the exercises in the individual modules and coalesce to present a cohesive message to the viewer.

Instructions

Next month, the agency you work for is opening a sister office in a neighboring city. The Board has tapped you as Director for the new location, and you’re thrilled with your promotion. In your capacity as Director, you’ve recently hired several new employees. The latest hires are coming in for training next week, and you want to make sure they understand your vision for appropriate office culture.

On one hand, you want everyone to feel completely comfortable in their work environment. On the other hand, you believe that the best ideas are often the result of creative collaboration between peers, and that some conflict is an inevitability of this process. You’ve learned from your previous position that the best approach to leadership is clear communication of expectations. To convey your complex ideas to incoming personnel, then, you have decided to prepare a professional presentation to share at an upcoming orientation session.

Your goal is to present a “creativity constitution” for the new office. Fortunately, you’ve done something similar to this in segments at your old job. You have the relevant experience to draw on in generating strategies for enhancing both the art aesthetic and level of productivity at work. You also have exposure to methods of avoiding/resolving conflict as passionate ideas bump up against one another. This will surely prove useful in completing your upcoming task.

You have already decided to mimic your old boss and mentor, and to preface your constitution with a brief explanation of why the forthcoming presentation will prove to be so useful for each trainee. Next, for the heart of the presentation, you have deemed it essential to address the following core issues and questions:

• How should new employees determine whether to display their preferred workplace art?
• How should art be presented and understood when engaging on the topic with co-workers?
• How should employees specifically approach each day and every item they encounter in the workplace and the world?
• How will the creative talents of the employees be challenged while keeping their minds active for the creative process?
• What activities and problem-solving systems can be utilized, and how will these systems benefit the staff and work environment?
• What connections can be made between the employees’ level of happiness, stress, and morale to the elements of art and creativity?

You read over your list of questions, satisfied. As you close your laptop, you remember to apply another bit of helpful advice from your ex-boss: Whatever techniques and strategies I decide to recommend should be supported by a high level of thorough analysis.

Grading Rubric

FFCBA01234No PassNo PassCompetenceProficiencyMasteryNot SubmittedStudent presents no guidelines to employees for assessing the viability of desired artistic displays, or guidelines presented show no evidence of having evolved from original module version.Student presents guidelines for assessing art, but guidelines are abstract and non-specific in many places. Student demonstrates a low level of synthesis or evolution of guidelines from original module version.Student presents guidelines for assessing art, and guidelines are specific and helpful in most places. Student demonstrates a medium level of synthesis or evolution of guidelines from original module version.Student presents wholly developed guidelines for assessing art, with fully nuanced expression and application of course materials. Student demonstrates high level of synthesis or evolution of guidelines from original module version.Not SubmittedStudent provides no guidelines to employees for co-worker engagement on the role and nature of art, or guidelines presented show no evidence of having evolved from original module version.Student provides guidelines for co-worker engagement, but guidelines are significantly underdeveloped or abstract and non-specific in many places. Student demonstrates a low level of synthesis or evolution of guidelines from original module version.Student provides largely developed, specific, and helpful guidelines for co-worker engagement. Student demonstrates a medium level of synthesis or evolution of guidelines from original module version.Student provides wholly developed guidelines for coworker engagement, with fully nuanced expression and application of course materials. Student demonstrates a high level of synthesis or evolution of guidelines from original module version.Not SubmittedNo noticeable attempt by student to compile examples and strategies for the proper employee approach to the everyday, or guidance offered shows no evidence of having evolved from original module version.Student compiles examples and strategies for the proper employee approach to the everyday, but guidance offered is significantly underdeveloped or abstract and non-specific in many places. Student demonstrates a low level of synthesis or evolution of guidelines from original module version.Student compiles mainly helpful and developed strategies for the proper employee approach to the everyday. Student demonstrates a medium level of synthesis or evolution of guidelines from original module version.Student compiles wholly developed examples and strategies for the proper employee approach to the everyday, with fully nuanced expression and application of course materials. Student demonstrates a high level of synthesis or evolution of guidelines from original module version.Not SubmittedStudent provides list of employee creative talents with no explanation of how they are challenged.Student provides some description of how employee’s creative talents will be challenged, with little explanation or detail.Student provides description of how employee’s creative talents will be challenged, with some explanation and limited analysis.Student provides description of how employee’s creative talents will be challenged, with fully developed explanation and synthesis of other presentation elements.Not SubmittedStudent provides a list of activities and problem solving systems, with no explanation on how these will benefit the staff.Student provides a list of activities and problem solving systems, with rudimentary explanation on how these will benefit the staff.Student provides a list of activities and problem solving systems, with basic explanation on how these will benefit the staff and some analysis.Student provides a complex list of activities and problem solving systems, with detailed explanation on how these will benefit the staff, and a fully developed synthesis of other presentation elements.Not SubmittedStudent provides a list of connections to happiness, stress, and morale.Student provides a list of connections with rudimentary explanation.Student provides connections to art elements with a basic explanation and analysis of how these will contribute to the elements.Student provides complex connections to art elements, with detailed explanations, and a fully developed synthesis of other presentation elements.