Project Overview You will reflect on your own culture, beliefs, and values by co

Project Overview

You will reflect on your own culture, beliefs, and values by completing a Culture and Values Organizer for this project. Then, using the information from your organizer, you will create a slide presentation in which you will make connections between your own culture and workplace cultures. You will also make recommendations for improving workplace culture in your presentation.

Competency

In this project, you will master the following competency:

Describe the influence of culture on beliefs, values, and behaviors

Scenario

Williams & Marshall, LLC, wants to make sure its company values match the values of the people who work there. This means the company needs to learn more about its employees and what they care about. To do so, it is giving employees an opportunity to share what is important to them with their coworkers. Williams & Marshall, LLC, hopes this will create a workplace culture that is more open and productive.

Your manager, Demita Williams, has asked you to lead a presentation and then report back to her with ideas on how to improve the workplace culture at Williams & Marshall, LLC. In this project, you will think about your own culture, beliefs, and values. Then, you will compare them to other cultures, including different workplace cultures.

Directions

1. Culture and Values Organizer

Your company wants to build a healthy and culturally aware workplace. For part of this initiative, your manager, Demita Williams, has asked you to lead a brief presentation to your team about culture.

She wants you to start by thinking about your own culture first. To put your thoughts together, use the Culture and Values Organizer to make a list of your culture’s beliefs, values, and norms. Be sure to answer all of the questions in the organizer. Keep in mind that there are many possible correct answers to the questions in the organizer. Your answers will be unique to you. While it can be challenging to describe your own culture(s), be sure to answer all the questions to the best of your ability.

2. Slide Presentation: The Impact of Culture

Once you’ve completed the organizer, create a presentation (5–7 slides) to share your findings about culture with your team. Mrs. Williams wants to save your presentation to train future hires, so she has asked you to

Record the presentation (3–5 minutes)
Provide detailed speaker notes (700–750 words)

If you choose to use speaker notes instead of recording, she wants the notes to reflect what you would say in an audio or in-person presentation. In your 5–7 slides, you may include a combination of graphics and text to support your message.

For your presentation, think about the questions in the organizer. Then, plan how to discuss your culture, values, and beliefs with the team. You should focus on how personal cultural elements influence the overall workplace culture.

Note: For this project, assume that Williams & Marshall, LLC, has the same workplace culture as somewhere you have worked.

In your presentation, be sure to address the following:

Describe your culture: Mrs. Williams wants your presentation to help you connect with your coworkers, so she has asked you to start by talking about your own cultural background. Describe how the beliefs, values, and norms associated with your culture(s) impact your behaviors and decision making. Be sure to provide some examples. Consider these questions:

How do cultural elements (beliefs, values, and norms) influence the decisions you make at work?
How does your culture influence how you present yourself at your workplace?
What are some behaviors associated with your industry or the job you perform? Think of the clothes you wear, how you organize your desk, how you interact with customers, and so on.
What cultural elements help you maintain a healthy work-life balance?

Make connections: Next, Mrs. Williams would like you to make connections between workplace cultures and values and your own personal culture, values, and beliefs. You should consider how the values you outlined in your organizer connect with the overall workplace cultures and values:

What similarities and differences are there?
How does your own culture mesh or conflict with the workplace culture?
How do you think you are perceived within the organization?
How could your culture, values, and beliefs be misunderstood?
What assumptions might people make about you?

Give recommendations: Finally, make three to five recommendations for improving workplace culture. Consider what values you think should be adopted by the organization to make it a great place to work. Include the reasons behind your ideas.

What to Submit

Every project has a deliverable or deliverables, which are the files that must be submitted before your project can be assessed. For this project, you must submit the following:

Culture and Values Organizer
Fill out the organizer by thinking about your own culture. You will reflect on different cultural elements, such as beliefs, values, norms, expected behaviors, and attitudes.
Slide Presentation: The Impact of Culture
Using the Culture and Values Organizer document, show how your cultural background impacts your decisions and self-presentation at work. Make sure to talk about how personal cultural elements influence the overall workplace culture.

Your presentation should be 5–7 slides. adding detailed speaker notes (700–750 words). Use the How to Design and Deliver an Effective Presentation document if you need help with presentation tools or design.