Time: 10 min. monologue, followed by a 3-min. Q&A session.
The assignment will be assessed based on the following criteria:
• Structure (20%)
• Content (20%)
• Visuals (10%)
• Delivery (20%)
• Rhetoric (10%)
• Questions (10%)
• Overall impression (10%)
Presentations where the monologue part is shorter than 7 minutes and/or are read out fully fail automatically. Presentations are stopped at 11:00. Students who read out their presentation fail automatically.
Topic:
Young entrepreneurs should continue to run the startups they founded instead of handing the reins to more experienced executives.(I am for it)
Presenter:
CEO of a start-up.
(TASK: Select a specific company. Present a plan for how to resolve the problem. Propose action steps to implement the plan.)
Audience:
Board of Directors of a start-up (select a specific, real or invented company).
Context:
Board meeting. On the agenda: After several years in business, should the start-up bring in more experienced executives to run it?