Efficiency Fair

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Efficiency Fair

• 2011

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Creating a Poster Exhibit

• For High Impact and Engagement

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Agenda

• Identifying Content
• What to Present
• Designing the Presentation
• Designing to Gain the Audiences Attention
• Mechanics
• Creating the Poster

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Why present a poster at the efficiency fair?

• Celebrate your units progress
• Reflect elements of your success
• Connect with others around campus
• Help others learn from your experience to solve
  their challenges
• It will be a fun filled day!

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Criteria for an effective poster

• Demonstrate the benefits of the process to your
  unit and/or across campus
• Show how the approach might be applied to other
  units

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Highlight accomplishments

• Enhanced services to students, faculty, staff
• Saved time and/or resources
• Increased effectiveness and efficiency
• Improved the campus climate
• Advanced the campus strategic goals

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Who is the audience?

• Campus leaders and administrators
• Academic staff
• Faculty
• Students
• Media outlets

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Your poster content

• What do you plan on highlighting at the Fair?

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Illinois campus efficiency fair proposal template

• Documenting your improvement
• Use your proposal template as a tool to organize
  the information you want to highlight at the
  fair
• On poster
• In your presentation

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What does a typical display look like?

• Tri-Fold Table Top Displays on 36 x 48 Foam
  Core
• 1-2 Exhibits per table

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Key components

• Clear explanation of the process, purpose, or
  improvement
• Visual display of the project/process
• Flowcharts or graphs
• Before after pictures
• Photographs
• Website snapshots
• Documentation of the impact
• Proposal document
• Focus on aspects of the process that is
  transferable to other units

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Design tips

• Keep things simple!
• Use graphics
• Limit the amount of text
• Use fonts that are easy to read
• For help reformatting text, colors, and objects
  within the PowerPoint, refer to editing handout
• For a downloadable version of theIllinois logo
  official usage guidelines see
• http//identitystandards.illinois.edu/

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poster creation

• Create an entire poster as one slide in
  PowerPoint
• Use the Tri-fold Poster Exhibit Instruction as
  a reference
• Experiment with different colors and fonts make
  it fun!
• Email the file to contact name
• They will print the design and attach it on the
  poster board

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• Need/Problem/ Opportunity Statement
• (Example) Our opportunity is to create a campus
  learning environment that engages first year
  students.
• (Example) Move graduate applications online and
  automate much of the process.
• (Example) Condense the application systems for
  the different graduate schools into a single
  application.
• 2 5 bullet points in 36 44 point font.
• Process Improved/ Changes Made
• (Example) Implemented a single web-based
  solution.
• (Example) The College of Engineering has
  developed a Web-based graduate program
  application to condense the process.
• 2 5 bullet points in 36 -44 point font, the
  same size and font as in the other sections.

• Next Steps/Results
• Insert a bulleted summary of the results.
• (Example) The first year goals developed by the
  ONSP advisory board are gaining widespread
  support.
• (Example) Applicant data is easily searchable
  and reports can be generated.
• 2 5 bullet points in 36 -44 point font, the
  same size and font as the other sections.
• Future Development
• List of other departments, programs, or offices
  who have already adopted changes or new
  processes.
• General ways to use this method of process
  improvement in other venues.
• Possible ways to develop the method or idea
  further to reach beyond its current use.