Milestone 3
This assignment is designed to showcase your understanding of the importance of effective communications involving organizational leaders. This assignment will help you create strategies for developing leadership communications, which is a key component of the final project.
In this milestone, you will formulate your recommendations on guidelines for optimal leadership communications, taking into account considerations such as company culture, ethics, and systems theory. Consider the impact of optimal leadership communications on an organization. Does such impact align with your present understanding of systems theory?
Submit your assignment as a PowerPoint or Prezi media presentation. See assignment the Module Three resources for guidance on how to create a multimedia presentation. You may submit speaker’s notes with your presentation, if you wish.
Guidelines for Submission: Your slideshow must be submitted as a Microsoft PowerPoint or Prezi.
If speaker’s notes are submitted, they must be formatted as follows: double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, one-inch margins, and sources cited in APA format.
COM 600 Milestone Three Guidelines and Rubric
A milestone is designed to serve as a stepping stone to the final project.
This submission is a PowerPoint or Prezi media presentation. See the Module Three resources for guidance on how to create a multimedia presentation.
Specifically, the document should give recommendations on guidelines for optimal leadership communications. Students should look for opportunities for
critical analysis of the communications process as well as how systems theory frames those arguments.
The submission should be drawn from the specific readings in the course material and must include the following:
Strategies and improvements for addressing the needs of internal and external stakeholders
Strategies and improvements for addressing challenges with the message receiver
Strategies and improvements for addressing ethical issues
Best practices for developing and delivering communications and the role that leadership will play
An explanation of social and cultural impact of these guideline changes on internal and external stakeholders
An explanation of how these guideline changes will help the leadership in the effective delivery of communications in the future
An explanation of how systems theory and best practices have formed your guideline changes
Guidelines for Submission: Your slideshow must be submitted as a Microsoft PowerPoint or Prezi.
If speaker’s notes are submitted, they must be formatted as follows: double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, one-inch margins, and sources cited in APA
format.
Critical Elements Proficient (100%) Needs Improvement (55%) Not Evident (0%) Value
Strategies and
Improvements: Needs of
Internal and External
Stakeholders
Provides strategies and improvements
for addressing the needs of internal and
external stakeholders that are specific
and sound
Provides strategies and improvements
for addressing the needs of internal and
external stakeholders that are vague or
unfounded
Does not provide strategies and
improvements for addressing the needs
of internal and external stakeholders
14
Strategies and
Improvements: Message
Receiver Challenges
Provides strategies and improvements
for addressing challenges with the
message receiver that are specific and
sound
Provides strategies and improvements
for addressing challenges with the
message receiver that are vague or
unfounded
Does not provide strategies for
addressing challenges with the message
receiver
14
Strategies and
Improvements: Ethical
Issues
Provides strategies and improvements
for addressing ethical issues that are
specific and sound
Provides strategies and improvements
for addressing ethical issues that are
vague or unfounded
Does not provide strategies and
improvements for addressing ethical
issues
14
Best Communication
Practices and Leadership
Roles
Presents best practices for
communications and clearly describes
the role each leader should play
Presents best practices for
communications but does not clearly
describe the role each leader should
play
Does not provide best practices for
communications
13
Social and Cultural Impact Explains the social and cultural impact
of these guideline changes on internal
and external stakeholders in ways that
are specific and sound
Explains the social and cultural impact
of these guideline changes on internal
and external stakeholders in ways that
are vague or unfounded
Does not explain the social and cultural
impact of these guideline changes on
internal and external stakeholders
13
Help to Leadership in
Future Communications
Explains how the guideline changes will
help the leadership in the effective
delivery of communications in the
future in ways that are that are specific
and sound
Explains how the guideline changes will
help the leadership in the effective
delivery of communications in the
future in ways that are vague or
unfounded
Does not explain how the guideline
changes will help the leadership in the
effective delivery of communications in
the future
13
Systems Theory and Best
Practices
Explains how systems theory and best
practices have formed guideline
changes in ways that are that are
specific and sound
Explains how systems theory and best
practices have formed guideline
changes in ways that are vague or
unfounded
Does not explain how systems theory
and best practices have formed
guideline changes
13
Articulation of Response Submission has no major errors related
to citations, grammar, spelling, or syntax
Submission has major errors related to
citations, grammar, spelling, or syntax
that negatively impact understanding of
ideas
Submission has critical errors related to
citations, grammar, spelling, or syntax
that prevent understanding of ideas
6
100%