Residency Project - Paper & PPT

BADM 634 - Initiating the Project

Project Sales Pitch Presentation – One World, One Community

Develop an 8–10 minute sales pitch presentation for your cultural event proposal.

PART 2: POWER POINT PITCH PRESENTATION

1) Prepare a Power Point Presentation that will serve as a “sales pitch” to convince the project sponsors to select your project for implementation and funding. This is a presentation of your proposed event; not the project charter. While some elements contained in the project charter may be included this should highlight the event and not the document.

2) Presentation should contain 10 slides of information in total (title page and any non-informative pages will not count toward total).

3) Do not present the Project Charter; present the actual event as envisioned by your team. The Sponsor’s selection of your project team will be based upon the completed Project Charter and this informative presentation of the project team’s vision for the event. The Power Point should be considered a “sales pitch”.

Recommendations for Power Point:

1) Do not just copy and paste information from the Project Charter. The Power Point presentation is to be utilized to gain the Sponsor’s interest for your project not present the Project Charter.

2) Power Points need to be more visual then textual. If slide is primarily information listed in text format your audience will quickly read the slide and ignore what you are actually saying. Slides should contain visual renditions of the information being provided by the speaker whenever possible (which will be reflected in the detailed speaker’s notes included).

3) Charts and graphs are usually good visual inclusions. Pictures of proposed sites or representations of elements of the event are also beneficial.

4) Slides (and any text) must be legible to a person in the back row of a meeting room.

5) Font type and size should be consistent throughout.

6) This presentation should “grab” the sponsor’s attention and make them excited about your project proposal.