Proposal

What’s the difference between a proposal and an idea.

Well they’re not that different but an idea might be something you just kind of throw out there to solve a problem or for any other reason and a proposal is meant to be a little bit more serious and it’s usually something that you would prepare for.

So a proposal is more like or could be more like a presentation.

You might even prepare a PBT a PowerPoint presentation when you discuss a proposal for solving a particular problem.

Now let’s say the particular problem is that staff members or the whole staff they’re just not getting along very well.

Maybe there are some issues and disagreements and a lot of you could call it drama maybe coming up every day and maybe this is because they just don’t know each other very well.

They don’t have a chance to socialize.

And so there’s a bit of frustration among the staff.

Let’s say this is the issue and one person is going to propose a solution to the problem.

OK.

And I’m going to just read out this proposal.

I don’t want to focus too much on the proposal because really it has the basics or the essentials of giving a presentation.

And we’ve talked about that before because you could stand up and you could make a little hook.

So you might say What do you think really is the core of this issue.

It’s pretty clear to me that the core of the issue is that the staff have no chance to socialize and form bonds with each other.

So we’ve maybe used a bit of a rhetorical question there.

Why do you think that we’re not asking anybody to answer it right.

They’re just thinking about it.

So we’re using a lot of the basics of the presentation that we learned in another lesson.

So I don’t want to focus too much on it but basically I just wanna make it clear that an idea is more casual and a proposal is more formal and often something that you would prepare in advance.

OK.

So to the problem of issues with company culture bad morale company morale is low morale is the sort of energy level or level of happiness among the staff.

I propose a big monthly dinner for the whole staff.

This will promote company culture and boost morale boost means to increase or to make it better.

Then I would probably go into more detail about why I think this is a good idea.

Let’s say we have a PowerPoint behind us based on the PowerPoint that we have.

It could say for example.

So this would be a good investment for us because right now if we have this issue with low morale having a big company dinner is something we only need to do maybe once a month that can allow the whole staff to get to know each other better.

Create new bonds in a relaxed setting.

And when they can do that when they can have fun with each other then they’re going to build trust.

And when they build trust those bonds are going to translate back into the workplace.

Then we could go on and we could go through our outline point A point B in Point C with examples.

I don’t want to get into the whole thing but basically when you’re giving a proposal follow the basic structure of the outline that we learned in the other lesson.