This is a continuation of the scenario presented in Units 3 and 4. The budget director has assigned you as the action officer to a DHS interagency working group to represent the agency or directorate. The purpose of the working group is to re-align DHS program priorities for the mid-year Congressional Budget Review. The budget director has received top-level approval of the AO’s previously submitted proposals. Each agency or directorate representative has an equal vote within the working group and voting authority assigned by the AO’s budget director. The working group members must assess each agency or directorate’s proposed mid-year realignments and determine a proposed Department (DHS) mid-year budget priorities realignment for presentation to the House and Senate Homeland Security Budget subcommittee. The AOs should represent the best interests of their parent agency or directorate to the working group. The working group shall be guided in their deliberations and actions by the DHS QHSR, BUR, StratPlan, and 2015 Budget in Brief (BOB). Individual Portion Prepare a PowerPoint briefing of the student’s Unit 3 and Unit 4 papers. The briefing shall include the following: A title slide An agency description slide to include statutory missions, jurisdiction, and roles and responsibilities Supporting background information slide A program discussion slide to include mission, goals, objectives, and metrics (from the student’s Unit 3 Individual Project) Justification for reprioritization Recommendations to the working group This PowerPoint presentation should be at least ten slides in length and include speaker notes and additional backup information slides as deemed necessary by the student. The student should submit the completed PowerPoint to the course instructor and to his or her small group area. This task is worth 100 points. The student’s PowerPoint presentation captures salient points of the student’s IP 3 paper and makes appropriate recommendations. The PowerPoint presentation is professional and appropriate in nature to include speaker notes with documentation (citations and references). The presentation avoids personal opinions and supports all statements of fact with citations. The student submits to small group and instructor. Instructor’s Comments: Part 1: Each student uploads her/his own PP Presentation. Please be sure that your Part 1 PowerPoint presentation meets all of the following requirements: Do not use Times New Roman (TNR) font throughout your PP presentation. Instead, use a san serif font, i.e., Arial, Helvetica, Calibri, etc. Use the TNR text primarily for the body text of your papers. Your cover slide should show the same three lines of text as you have for your papers in the proper order, i.e., Title of your paper, your name, and the name of the school (Columbia Southern University). The bold title of your presentation and all bold slide titles should have from one to five words (max.). Do not make your slides too busy. In other words, do not use complete sentences or paragraphs in any of your slide presentations. You want the audience to focus on you as the presenter. If they had to read all of your words, their attention will be neither on you nor on what you are saying. Therefore, do your slides in compliance with the KISS Principle, i.e., Keep It Short and Simple (KISS). All bullet phrases should have from one to five words (max.). You should always have a bare minimum of two reference entries and a bare minimum of two corresponding in-text citations. One should be your assigned textbook, and the other should be a peer-reviewed journal article or book. Your article/book/document titles should be initially capped on the first word and the first word after a colon. The rest of the words should be lowercase except for formal nouns/names. Italicize book titles and journal names/volume number. For books, always add the State after the city. Therefore, it should look like this: Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press. Always include an “Agenda” slide immediately following your cover/title slide and a “Conclusion” slide at the end before your list of “References” slide. Your “Questions?” slide should be your last slide. Number your slides in the bottom right-hand corner. Do not use a dark background. It is harder to read the slides, and it puts some of your audience to sleep because the briefing room will be dark. Please remember these things when you prepare your next PP presentation.
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