{"id":1119,"date":"2020-07-23T00:35:24","date_gmt":"2020-07-23T00:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ksoakes.expressions.syr.edu\/summer2020\/?p=1119"},"modified":"2020-07-23T00:35:24","modified_gmt":"2020-07-23T00:35:24","slug":"discussion-week-of-7-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ksoakes.expressions.syr.edu\/summer2020\/2020\/07\/23\/discussion-week-of-7-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Discussion – Week of 7\/20"},"content":{"rendered":"

With \u201cShaping an Ethical Workplace Culture\u201d<\/em>, Steven Olson has written much more than an article. He has put together a handbook. Written for an audience of Human Resources professionals, \u201cShaping\u2026\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>provides these professionals with a clear set of instructions for creating, maintaining and sustaining an ethical workplace culture.<\/p>\n

I immediately noticed Olson’s frequent use of graphs, charts and other graphics. One of the things I was taught early in my career was that the higher up in the organization your audience is, the fewer words you should use to make. your point. PowerPoint decks which include graphs, charts, etc. which are well designed, requiring little explanation, are consistently proven to be most effective in driving the conversation, while still prompting the questions you’d expect to hear.<\/p>\n

In this case, Olson isn’t going to be receiving real time feedback from his readers, but he is thinking of his audience when he includes those images. In so doing, he’s mitigating the risk of the reader only skimming the text, by re-phrasing it as a graph, chart or table.<\/p>\n

I really enjoyed reading “Shaping…”. <\/em>Olson inspires his readers by breaking what is admittedly a huge undertaking into manageable chunks. With the focus areas and steps clearly defined, HR professionals can take action armed with a proven method, and examples of other successful organizations to emulate.<\/p>\n

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I can’t believe I’m about to type this, but I think I’m going to create a PowerPoint presentation about the power of consumer activism. I tend to get a bit anxious when creating slides when I know they will be shared with executives, who are the audience I think I\u2019d most like to address in this exercise. Given my topic, I want to use the data and learnings I\u2019ve gathered in an attempt to influence corporate behavior.<\/p>\n

Knowing my audience will be made up of executives, it\u2019s best to keep the deck short. I\u2019ll be lucky to get thirty minutes of their time. I\u2019m thinking that ten slides should do the trick. The text and graphics on each slide should reinforce one another. Citing the resources via quote boxes, etc. should be particularly effective. The text can feature links to sources where appropriate, but I think adding an Appendix featuring a full list of citations would be best.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With \u201cShaping an Ethical Workplace Culture\u201d, Steven Olson has written much more than an article. He has put together a handbook. Written for an audience of Human Resources professionals, \u201cShaping\u2026\u201d\u00a0\u00a0provides these professionals with a clear set of instructions for creating, maintaining and sustaining an ethical workplace culture. I immediately noticed Olson’s frequent use of graphs, … <\/p>\n

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