SOPPADA!

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SOPPADA!

• (No, it's not a Ricky Martin dance craze!)
• It's a great framework for selling ideas
• Here's what to say when you want to make a
  recommendation or a proposal!
• S Subject What's to be done?
• O Objective What's to be gained?
• P Present Situation What's happening now?
• P Proposed Situation How different?
• A Advantages Highlight Benefits
• D Disadvantages Identify issues for
  credibility
• A Action Plans Tell us what's needed

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Let's do a SOPPADA!
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SampleSOPPADA
Improved Scheduling of Classes A system which
will allow students to get what they need and
have faculty teaching productive, large
classes Students add, but don't drop, so
openings don't appear in system and students
can't add. Students should attend classes for
credit. If they are there, they should be
enrolled. Shorten student careers, reduce game
playing, frustration, terror, and bad feelings,
make professors do their work, etc. Students
who don't have phones or email and can't or won't
call profs could be discriminated against. See
if students agree, let faculty talk with
administrators about how it works, fire the
administrators involved, enjoy the peace and
harmony.
Subject Objective Presently Proposed
Advantages Disadvantages Action Plans
do something about it!
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Team SOPPADA!

• Each person must develop a SOPPADA 3-minute
  in-class presentation of a proposal for enhancing
  the quality of life for students at Cal Poly
  Pomona
• "Quality" can be defined in many ways. For
  purposes of this exercise, identify barriers
  hindering students from their goals.
• Identify something which unnecessarily wastes
  student time, resources, or energy.
• Opt for problems which are measurable, or for
  which fair if rough estimates could be made.

present a great recommendation
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