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As a Finalist you share your ideas at conference, in the media and online.
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, you will enjoy our own very popular Peer Circles where you may reflect on what interests you in discussion with other attendees.</p>
<p><strong>Your Conference Session</strong><br />
Typically as an award candidate you would attend with colleagues, though if your Key Speaker cannot attend on the day your talk could be delivered by pre-recorded video, ideally supported by other colleagues attending. You have ten minutes for your talk, which can be accompanied by visuals etc., and then another ten minutes for Q&A.</p>
<p><strong>Visuals to support your talk</strong><br />
You can be as creative as you wish with your visuals, but we have found that some of the most powerful talks have no supporting visuals at all. We request that text on slides be kept to a bare minimum, ideally with no bullet points at all. You are welcome to prepare, print and distribute an A4 leaflet with any text you would like attendees to read.</p>
<p><strong>Length of your talk</strong><br />
Your session needs to allow sufficient time for Q&A with the attendees, and so we request that you keep your talk to ten minutes, as a focus of the Peer Conference is audience participation. With proper preparation ten minutes should be sufficient to convey your messages. This ten minutes is to include all your presentation, whether it be from your key speaker, any co-speaker or any person sharing from a different perspective.</p>
<p><strong>Promoting a product/service</strong><br />
You cannot be a speaker if you or your company have a commercial interest in the entry that could appeal to the conference audience. In this case you have two options if you also have a commercial interest in your entry.<br />
One is to invite a client to enter for the Peer Awards, and attend in a supporting capacity – we can arrange to mention you and link to your website from the page at our website where their shortlisted entry would be showcased.<br />
The other is to sponsor the conference in some way.<br />
In both cases the attendees are looking for authentic sharing of ideas and insight, and not a sales pitch.</p>
<p><strong>Bringing colleagues on the day of your talk</strong><br />
There’s a number of ways in which having other people with you on the day of your talk can be of benefit…<br />
<strong><em>As a co-speaker</em></strong><br />
It can make sense to have another person present part of your ten minute talk alongside you to cover something from their perspective.<br />
<strong><em>As a colleague</em></strong><br />
It can work really well to defer to someone else for a response during the Q&A section that follows your talk. This is not to say that you could not answer all questions extremely well yourself. It is more about giving the audience a broader feel for your initiative.<br />
<strong><em>As someone that has been on the receiving end</em></strong><br />
Bring someone that has been a beneficiary of your initiative, and that is not from your profession (i.e. for a corporate responsibility entry they are not a csr professional, for a customer engagement entry they are not necessarily a marketing, sales or customer service professional, and for a people & performance entry they do not work in HR). Having them attend, even though only for your session, means that they can share their experience of your initiative with conference, giving an entirely different perspective on the impact of your work.<br />
<strong><em>As a networker</em></strong><br />
There’s a number of opportunities throughout the day for entering into conversation with fellow conference participants (most of whom will be peer award judges). The more of you that are at the conference, the more such conversations people supporting your entry can have. Whilst this is not to suggest that these conversations are canvassing for votes, it can do no harm to participate in as many such exchanges as possible.<br />
<strong><em>As an attendee</em></strong><br />
People that have been involved with you on the project would gain acknowledgement for their work simply by seeing you present it at conference, by witnessing an audience appreciating your initiative, and hopefully celebrating your receiving an accolade at the end of the day.</p>
<p><strong>The duration of your Q&A</strong><br />
Your Key Speaker and colleagues will have ten minutes to respond to questions about your presentation.)
