Audit Report Draft

Getting Started

In this workshop, you and your team will analyze data and create your individual audit reports using oral, visual, and written communication. This is a creative and collaborative space. Help each other apply the communication principles you have been learning throughout this course. Within your team, you will accomplish the following task. As you do so, be sure to use your communication skills with each other.

• Task 7: Appraise researched data for emerging communication opportunities/strategies for the audit. (Team)

Upon successful completion of this discussion, you will be able to:

• Analyze emerging communication opportunities in business.
• Analyze the role of communication in making, influencing, and implementing decisions based upon the Virtuous Business model.
• Analyze organizational barriers that impede communication in decision-making processes.
• Develop effective communication strategies appropriate to defined, professional business situations.
• Communicate feedback.
• Listen to feedback.

Resources

• File: Audit Report Presentation Rubric
• Website: Feedback Protocol
• Videos: Kaltura How-To

Background Information

Review the presentation tools you practiced and used in 1.2 Discussion: Personal Introductions. If necessary, review the Kaltura How-To Videos.

From Workshop Three, use the annotated tools to help you analyze your results.

• Annotated Survey
• Annotated Interview Questions
• Annotated Focus Group Questions

Peer review can be a way to open up new possibilities for both the creator and the reviewer. If both creator and reviewer approach the task of peer review mindfully, both can grow from it and do better work because of it. Strive to nurture a state of mindfulness and an openness to new perspectives and new information in doing your peer reviews. Then you can bring that back to your own creative work and revision. Before you submit your final presentation, you will incorporate the feedback from a peer review to sharpen and improve your project.

There are many principles of communication that are not covered in this course, simply because there is not enough time! One of those principles is the power of protocols. For this activity, you will use a feedback protocol (a structured process that guides users) to frame your feedback.

Audit Report Draft Instructions

1. Review the rubric to make sure you understand the criteria for earning your grade for this activity.
2. Review the Audit Report Presentation Rubric which will be used to evaluate your final presentation submission. This rubric provides you with the specific requirements for the presentation you will submit in Workshop Six.
3. Create a DRAFT Communication Audit Report Presentation using visual, and written communication. It is recommended that you use a tool such as Kaltura Capture Space. Presentations should be between 20 and 30 minutes in length.
4. Post your presentation to the discussion board with enough time for your team to provide you with feedback by the end of the workshop.

NOTE: It is better to post a partial presentation and get feedback than to miss the opportunity of putting a draft in front of your team for their review. It does not have to be in a final format yet.