Week 4 Professional and Social Networks Presentation

This assignment consists of 2 parts.

Part 1: Personal Professional and Social Networks

• Make a list of everyone you can think of and where they work.
• Include family members, distant cousins, classmates, church mates, etc.
• Have you done any volunteer work? If so, who do you know from there?
• As part of your analysis of the strength and weaknesses of your professional network, where would you go to find the connections you need?
• Which additional organizations would fit your professional/social profile? How much does it cost to join? What would be the benefit(s)? How can you join?

Part 2: Working Professional and Social Networks

• Choose a human services organization (you may choose a current place of employment or a previous job).
• Make a list of current networks and partnerships of the organization
• Include paid and nonpaid and/or volunteer partnerships
• Consider and describe the strengths and weaknesses associated with the partnerships and networks you identified
• How could redevelopment and/or reorganization of collaborative networks be effective for helping the organization to achieve greater effectiveness and overall reach?
  • Are there any costs that outweigh the benefits?
  • Any partnerships that are obsolete or no longer serving the intended purpose? Should they be eliminated? Why or why not?
• Can additional partnerships be beneficial? How so?
• What factors are important in considering the addition of partnering organizations? What plan of action would you suggest to a human services organization looking to bring on additional partners?
• Include a sample MOU for a new partner organization.

You will present your professional and collaborative networks using Prezi or PowerPoint with voice over. The minimum number of slides is 5 (including analysis of personal professional and social networks, working professional and social networks, and MOU)

Create a Screencast of your PowerPoint presentation:

• Use the Kaltura CaptureSpace Recorder to record your oral presentation.
• Your recording should include PowerPoint slides that cover all of the components of your research.
• Your presentation should be limited to 10-15 minutes.
• Upload your assignment to Week 4 Professional and Social Networks Presentation

For further guidelines, refer to the Oral Presentation Rubric

Resources:

• Theories of Interorganizational Relations in the Human Services
• When Professional Power Fails – A Power Relations Perspective