Fall 2021 Business Communication: Analyzing your external communications.

COMM 205
Closed
Main contact
Concordia University
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
mark medicoff
Lecturer
(1)
3
Timeline
  • October 1, 2021
    Sandbox start
  • February 6, 2021
    Project Scope Meeting
  • February 27, 2021
    Review of advancement
  • October 6, 2021
    Project Scope Meeting
  • October 27, 2021
    Review of advancement
  • November 27, 2021
    Sandbox end
Sandbox
13/10 project matches
Dates set by sandbox
Preferred partners
Anywhere
Any partner type
Any industries

Sandbox scope

Categories
Skills
business communication communication microsoft powerpoint packaging and labeling
Student goals and capabilities

In this course, students learn the principles and techniques of clear, concise and effective written, oral, art and design (packaging and labelling), as well as technology concerns as it impacts on external communication in the profit and non-profit sectors. Most importantly, our students can review your company's best practices-- whether you are a young start-up, a small family owned business or a medium-sized company to see if you can do better to communicate to the external world in a global economy. In effect, our students can help your organization increase its market reach by reviewing your company's external communication.

Students

Students
Undergraduate
Any level
60 students
Project
30 hours per student
Students self-assign
Teams of 8
Expected outcomes and deliverables

The final deliverable of the project is an audio-visual PowerPoint presentation.

Project timeline
  • October 1, 2021
    Sandbox start
  • February 6, 2021
    Project Scope Meeting
  • February 27, 2021
    Review of advancement
  • October 6, 2021
    Project Scope Meeting
  • October 27, 2021
    Review of advancement
  • November 27, 2021
    Sandbox end

Project examples

Would you like an analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of your organization's external communications strategy to ensure that you are effectively communicating your accomplishments? Working in a group of approximately eight students, a team can analyse your organization's key external messages, with proposals to improve your pivotal messages. Teams will work on the project from the end of September to the end of November.

For example, this assignment can be helpful for any company engaged in non-profit categories (from senior citizen organizations to advocacy groups), manufacturing, retail, and distribution firms. We are also seeking start-ups, individual owned, or family-owned small firms-- the very backbone of our economy.

With your guidance, areas of focus for this project include but are not limited to:

  • Campaigns to your existing customers and shareholders
  • Reaching out to new customers with your key messages
  • Communicating sustainability, climate justice and social advocacy efforts to champion indigenous and racialized communities.

Additional partner criteria

Partners must answer the following questions to submit a match request to this sandbox:

  • Q1 - Checkbox
  • Q2 - Checkbox