Purpose The purpose of the intercultural communication presentation is to provide experience with the following: Planning, composing, and delivering a memorable and instructive business presentation Adapting in-person presentations to online platforms such as Zoom Creating clear visual design Teaching business professionals proper conduct while interacting with another culture Collaborating on virtual platforms Scenario You work for a large financial investment firm whose clients are medium to large size corporations worldwide. A company from [insert country here] is interested in partnering with your firm and has invited your CEO and several executives to visit their offices for several days of meetings and deliberation. The executives have asked you to research how to create a positive and persuasive impression on their potential clients. They expect you to present your findings in a Zoom meeting. They have asked to address the following areas: How to schedule and conduct a meeting in a way that builds goodwill by demonstrating what the culture calls “good behavior” How to negotiate and approach disagreements How to behave and converse in a recreational setting (such as a dinner after a meeting) Your recommendations should be based on your knowledge of these topics: high vs low context, individualism vs collectivism, power distance, uncertainty avoidance, time orientation, assertiveness, and verbal and nonverbal communication. You are free to give a brief explanation of these subjects in order to explain or give evidence to your recommendations. Note that the potential clients speak English, so you won’t need translators. Your presentation will concern the best business practices of one of these countries: Brazil, Mexico, Singapore, China, Italy, Sweden, Germany, the United Arab Emirates, Israel, and Kenya. Your Task After conducting research, you will design and deliver a four to five-minute presentation to the company executives. You will discuss the information they have requested. Sign up for a slot to present (like you did for the new product service meeting). Choose a country from this list to present on:  Sweden, Singapore, Israel, United Arab Emirates (UAE), Kenya, Mexico, Brazil, Germany, China, Italy Research the country you have chosen. Evaluate the information you find online to make sure it is accurate. Follow the steps discussed in Module 7 and your textbook to develop your presentation. Design a maximum of eight slides, including the title slide and the concluding slides. Your slides should include visuals and very little text. You will not earn good points if all your content slides have bullet points. This is meant to ensure you are the one presenting, not your technology. Practice, practice, and practice. You will lose points if you speak for less than four minutes or more than five minutes, if you read notes, or if your presentation sounds memorized. Evaluate your presentation using the Presentation Checklist  Download Presentation Checklist. Present via Zoom at a specific time. You will be one the “executives” who are participating in the presentation. Failure to sign up or attend the Zoom meeting at the schedule time will result in a grade of zero.

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