I delivered a presentation yesterday that I really enjoyed putting together, and it was great fun to deliver!
The brief was a keynote presentation for Panviva’s annual SupportPoint User Conference. SupportPoint is a “Business Process Guidance” system.
The brief was to deliver a Keynote presentation, and to set the theme for the conference: “Communication and Collaboration”. The underlying theme that I used to couch this on was Creativity, and the importance of creativity in both leadership and knowledge work. The slide pack is available on SlideShare.
I have used this as a good opportunity to shake off (at least some of) the shackles of PowerPoint – by using lots of pictures, and a lot less words. Some of the photos are mine, and most of the rest are Flickr “Creative Commons – Attributions” licensed photos, all with links on the relevant slides.
As there are lots of pictures, some of the slides may not be clear without the voice over (which maybe I’ll add to SlideShare later). The initial point is explaining my initial perceptions of creativity – influenced by the paintings of both my mother and my sister. (See the post “Moving mountains” on this site for more of this story.)
The next section refers to the material in this post on creativity in leadership, and briefly touches on my thoughts on Change Management. I then go over some of my past experiences with a Knowledge Management Toolkit, and how we went about developing it. The final part of the presentation picks up on a recent post on story at Anecdote, which includes a link to the story of “the one-armed boy”.
With that explanation, I hope it all makes sense, and that you enjoy this as much as I did!
Got a nice email from SlideShare this morning:
And another note: Slide 10 (The Michael Heizer piece) is there because a print of it hangs in the entrance to the Panviva Melbourne office. Most attendees at the conference didn’t recognise it. There’s another whole piece there on observation and perception!