Student Assessment Guide
Student Assessment Guide
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It is important to get your message across clearly and concisely. Depending on the purpose
of the communication, the tone, information, and even body language can vary. The
position to take will be different if I need to inform, instruct, inspire, activate or
persuade.
1. Avoid hubbub and cultural stereotypes in your language and in any anecdotes, humor,
and supporting materials you use.
3. Define the purpose and the position you would take in the following situations:
5. Outline three (3) types or reasons for workplace meetings and include the purpose, types of
materials used and expected schedule.
Schedule
Meeting Type/Reason Purpose Types of Materials Ad hoc, weekly,
monthly
Provide training calendars, laptops
Group reunion monthly
and videos
6. Name four (4) strategies you would employ to run a structured and inclusive meeting.
6. Organisations operate with many policies and procedures to assist with the smooth and
legal running of their business. Using the numbered list below, identify all policies and
procedures that would be used in the following communication situations (Note – some may
be assigned more than once).
Policies and Procedures:
1. Health and Safety policy
2. Employment contracts
3. Code of Conduct
4. Recruitment policy
5. Employee handbook
6. Complaints procedure
7. Confidentiality policy
Policies and Procedures used
Communication situations
(at least three (3))
Making an induction presentation to a group of new 1,2,3,5,7
staff members:
Negotiating with an unhappy and rude customer who 3,6,7
would like to make a complaint:
Participating in a recruitment meeting to discuss 2,4,5
candidates:
8. Name the government legislation that protects the Privacy of Information in Australia
and describe what it regulates.
9. List at least three (3) pieces of personal information that are protected under the Act.
1. file numbers.
[Link] reporting system.
3. medical and health research.
[Link]
[Link]
[Link] information
[Link]
[Link] and financial information
11. Where could you seek advice on how to handle confidential information? Provide at least
three sources.
12. When communicating with others it is important to determine the tone, structure, and style
to use. Explain why this is important and the impact it can have on others. Include a
workplace communication example in your answer.
Depending on how a message is delivered, it could be understood one way or another and
could have a positive or negative effect.
When giving a presentation it is essential to determine the way in which you present it
according to the people who are taking the information, this is because if you use the wrong
way, it could be difficult for the audience to clearly understand the information.
13. Provide three (3) reasons why it is important to resolve conflict in the workplace.
14. What steps could Jenny take to resolve the conflict effectively? List five (5) steps.
15. List three (3) techniques Jenny could use to control her emotions when talking to Mark.
16. Access the BizOps Management team document. Use the organisational chart to complete
the following:
Name a relevant stakeholder, a reason why the stakeholder could be communicating with
BizOps, and which department manager at BizOps would need to give approval.
An example: HR Manager (Department) may communicate with Fair Work (Government
agency) when determining changes to work conditions (reason).
External Name/ Type of Reason for Seek approval from:
Stakeholder stakeholder Communication
Government ATO -financial report. Financial
Organisation
-changes in assets. department/Manager
-annual income.
Industry – Leather supplier - Changes in stock Operations Manager /
supplier of
goods for sale - Quality and complaints Production team
or use in the - Cost increase
business
- Deliveries delays
Media IT provider - Development in the Marketing manager
web site.
- New products
- New marketing
- campaigns
- Discounts
-Be precise about the objectives and needs of the Company and the interested parties.
- enhance the goals and needs of the other party and the reasons behind them.
- think about the concessions that the company could make during the negotiation.
- make an agenda: discussion topics, participants, location and time
- distribute the results and the tasks to be carried out by the responsible department.
18. It is important to confirm the outcome of a negotiation. Name two (2) ways you could
communicate with stakeholders and establish common ground for a potential compromise.
-Plan a meeting:
Stakeholder meetings are the best way to communicate the outcome of a negotiation. Being
in the same room with stakeholders should avoid misinterpretation problems.
Decide the best meeting forum for stakeholders to contribute to discussions for the following
business objectives. Name two (2) for each:
21. List at least (6) meeting materials to be prepared and distributed to stakeholders prior to
and after a meeting.
1. Be brief
2. Report costs
5. Marketing analysis
6. Market research
22. Why is it important to follow up with stakeholders after a meeting? Give two (2) reasons.
1. The follow-up allows us to develop or improve the proposals that were generated in the
beginning.
2. Because it is necessary to know that both parties agree on strategies and budgets.
23. What must you first consider when beginning to prepare for a presentation?
Have a clear schedule of tasks in order to provide consistent and assertive information.
The parties involved are clear about each of the steps that will be carried out to achieve the
proposed objective.
It is very important as it is the process by which the speaker receives information about how
the audience gets his message and you, in turn, respond to those signals. The feedback
process is not complete until the speaker responds to his listeners, including the audience's
reactions to the speaker's response, etc.
provide questions to your audience members and even ask them what they understand about
the point you just made. Be on the lookout for non-verbal cues and be prepared to respond to
all kinds of reactions from your audience throughout your presentation.
1. Ask and Get Feedback - Your coworkers and friends can help you with their feedback. Take
the time to ask your closest colleagues to critique your presentation. Listen to what they have
to say, paying particular attention to repeating points.
2. Body language: Body language literally says more than words. Study body language and you
can see how your presentation is going moment by moment
25 questions total
2. Evaluate the functionality and impact of the plan by a brief survey at the end of each call
with the customer if desired, otherwise continue to have online channels or extension on
the phone line for complaints and queries.
3. Recruit a new part time staff for work during busy hours
ANSWER: With the aim of maintaining an excellent level of service in our commercial department
and responding to the demand in the increase in telephone sales, we have thought of the
following ideas that can be very useful to achieve the goals of the company:
1. The education of the employees will not only be determined during their induction period, it will
be constant during their stay in the company according to a training plan that will be created with
different options to ensure that the personnel get the type of skills and adequate training
according to the area in which they operate.
2. To ensure that our clients are advised in the best way, we propose to classify calls by areas so
that they are attended by suitable personnel with extensive knowledge to provide reliable and
secure support to our clients.
3. Finally, in order to meet the demand of the increase in telephone sales and in order to maintain
high standards of customer service and avoid increasing the workload of current employees, the
company will increase the number of customer service personnel and all these personnel. Must
have formal retail qualifications and receive internal training in product and service knowledge
In the last three months there has been an increase in phone sales
Position statement: which puts the quality of service at risk because the increase in demand
can lower the quality of customer service standards
Organisational Keep the focus especially on the goal of "The Right People
objectives: • Provide induction training at the beginning of employment to train
new hires to be informed, helpful and enthusiastic.
• Provide the physical, human and time resources to support an annual
professional development program for all BizOps employees "
Schedule/delivery date
At 6:15 pm – 6:30 pm, Melbourne.
In the conduct of the video conference it will be noted that all work,
including ideas and concepts created in the meeting, will be the
intellectual property of BizOps and will be kept confidential.
Relevant
policies/procedures All customer data that may be collected through the customer service
feedback survey will be managed in accordance with the Privacy Act
1988 (Cth) and the Australian Privacy Principles.
The communication style will be formal and tone will be formal and
assertive. For effective communication we are going to start talking
about the main issue and with the exposed problems we will present
the possible solutions arguing each one of them as a second step,
finally we will indicate the conclusions and suggestions. The
Position, tone, communication techniques that will be used will be to always show
structure and style of us the relevant information that Sarah can give us according to her
communication experience, pay attention to every detail that she needs, be open to
feedback and the perspective that they indicate to us in front of
their arguments and respond appropriately by giving our opinions in
a respectful way seeking to find the solution to the problem
presented.
Email Template
To: Sarah Voss
Cc:
Due to the increase in telephone sales and the risk that this brings to the quality of the service
delivered by the company to customers, the following strategies are being devised to
continue to have an increase in sales with high quality service by our workers:
Keep training all staff in customer service not only just in their induction period and
add more training courses whether it be advanced communication skills and how to
handle customers in a hard situation.
Recruit a new part time staff for work during busy hours
Make a survey at the end of each call to get customer’s feedback
We remain attentive to your comments and approval to start working on the current
organizational objectives, adding the new strategies and customer service guides that are
being prepared for the employees.
Best regards
Sales manager
From:
Hello Nancy Tooket, Johan Tines, Gina Harris and Darren Lin
I expect that the meeting will last 15 minutes. Please let me know if you can attend the meeting
Thank you for your time, looking forward to seeing you on MAY 27 th
Best regards
Sales manager
Potential Lower the quality of customer service and therefore lose sales and not
issues/problems reach financial and reputational goals.
The hiring of new personnel and new training was not within the
budget but they are costs that must be incurred if you want to continue
growing in reputational sales and if you want to achieve the objectives
of the company.
If the training and new staff are not able to adapt to the process on
time, the quality of customer service will decrease, which will lead to a
Anticipated What might they say to prove your ideas wrong or unsuitable?
counterarguments
What areas might they challenge you on?
What response will you have ready for the challenges? Do you need
documentation, links, references, studies, data, reports etc.? Have you
considered timeframes, implementation processes, additional
communication and costings?
- Keep to training all staff in customer service not only just in their
induction period and add more training courses whether it be advance
Supporting communication skill and how to handle with customer in a hard
arguments
situation
If we only train our staff just in the induction period, the staff will
forget and not understand the lesson. When our staff do not
Role-Play 1
Part A: Presentation meeting with staff and external consultant
Part B: Post presentation
Feedback Record
Stakeholder feedback
Date: Stakeholder names:
Time: Stakeholder
positions:
Feedback on content
Good general perception of the situation, great sale and great
of presentation
confidence.
Were objectives of
of course
presentation
achieved?
Suggested more interaction with the audience
improvements
Self-evaluation
Own evaluation of The information provided was brief and accurate, provided simple
presentation and clear answers to the problems they had to address.
Areas for Let the audience know that they can participate in the meeting as
improvement many times as they see fit and that any question is welcome if it is
related to the topic being discussed.
BizOps Report
Date:
Name:
Department:
Purpose follow-up of proposals to improve customer service.
Overview Sarah Voss, the Customer Service Manager for BizOps Enterprises has
noticed a 30% increase in phone sales in the last three months.
She has proposed that you, as the manager of this department, meet and
speak with a Call Center consultant, Darren Lin, from The Communication
Center.
They talked about customer service processes and staff training in order to
establish three options to have the best resolution for increasing telephone
sales.
Key points The customer service policy and the BizOps operating plan were considered
so that the selected options were viable.
Three options were discussed:
1. The teaching of employees will not only be limited to their induction
period, it will be continuous during their stay in the company according to a
training plan that will be carried out with different options to ensure that
the staff obtain the type of appropriate skills and training.
2. To ensure that our customers are served in the best way, we propose to
classify calls by areas so that they are handled by appropriate personnel
with extensive knowledge to provide reliable and secure support to our
customers.
3. In order to strengthen the demand of the increase in telephone sales
and in order to maintain high standards of customer service and avoid
increasing the workload of current employees, the company will hire more
customer service personnel.
Summary of key 1. Meeting with Darren Lin, Call Center consultant.
points
2. Three ideas were discussed to solve the current situation.
3. Of the three ideas discussed, two were chosen to present to the
management team; improve the training system and classify incoming calls
to the call center
a power point
presentation for the sales team
administrator.
How will the report The report will be distributed as a document via
of meeting Email.
outcomes be
distributed to
stakeholders?
-Increase income.
-Increase income.
[Link] position:
-Maintain qualification.
3. People:
Cc:
From:
Sent:
Subject:
What are you inviting them to? Where will it be held? Who is attending? What is the purpose? Do
you require a response? Will they be required to prepare or bring anything with them? How long
will the meeting be? What is being discussed?
Feedback Record
Stakeholder feedback
Date: Stakeholder names:
Time: Stakeholder
positions:
Feedback on content
of presentation
Feedback on delivery
of presentation
Were objectives of
presentation
achieved?
Suggested
improvements
Self-evaluation
Own evaluation of How was the pace of your presentation? Was the tone appropriate for
presentation the audience? Did the structure of the presentation make it easy to
present your ideas? Were you prepared for the questions? Did you
ask enough questions to gain understanding? Did you provide
enough information to your audience? Was the delivery in the right
format for the audience?
Areas for How do you need to improve the delivery of your presentation? Could
improvement you improve the content and the structure? What feedback did you
receive? How could you improve your questioning techniques?
Meeting called by: Who is responsible? Type of meeting: Types could include status,
decision making, idea sharing, team building
etc.
Attendees:
Who attended the meeting?
MINUTES
OTHER INFORMATION
Observers:
Was anyone observing but not participating in the decision making?
Resources:
What resources were used to conduct the meeting?
Method of distribution to stakeholders:
How will the minutes be distributed to team members?