How to Take Your Awards to the Next Level

Oh my lawks a lordy! What a full on session it was!

Friday I had the delight of hosting and producing an annual awards ceremony for one of Australia’s medium sized banks.

In 1 hr (59 minutes to be exact) we had:

• Almost 200 people on the Zoom session
• A big countdown video
• A welcome video
• The CEO speech
• Almost 30 awards
• 6 acceptance speeches
• 98 slides
• 10 prize draws off the prize wheel
• Board Chair Speech
• Breakout rooms for networking
• Plenty of laughs
• Lots of dancing
• Two outro videos

And it was all run from mission control that you see above.

Look closely and you will see two cameras (good to have a back up), vision mixer, sound input, one laptop for slides, one laptop for video, two screens for running the show, one screen showing what was happening in the vision mixer, multiple computers recording the session and an empty cup of coffee (and that was before we started!)

Award winning conference organiser Sue Ryman-Kiernan from Wise Connections had done all the hard work in getting it organised and then … we were live!

What did the client say? “It was superb!”
The CEO was laughing and celebrating all the way through.
A huge success in anyone’s language.

How we look at events has changed.

Never before has this bank been able to have so many of their staff engaged in an awards ceremony in a way that celebrates who they are all while keeping them safe. It was more than “just another Zoom call” and it has them all excited about the year ahead.

So what do you need to consider for your next online event?
How can you make it stand out, get your entire team engaged and set a new standard for “how things are done around here?”

Get in touch if you need any guidance or support to take your awards to the next level.