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Zoom Tutorial – Amazing New PowerPoint Background Feature

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EPISODE SIX – Ask the Consultant

Today in EPISODE SIX of Ask the Consultant, host Braden Kelley shows you how to take advantage of an amazing new Zoom feature that lets you easily create compelling videos with PowerPoint slides over your shoulder in the background.

This is a way better method of presenting slides than having your camera on and sharing your screen.

This video is itself an example of what you can do with this new Zoom feature (currently in BETA) and inside I’ll show you step by step how to do it.

This zoom tutorial will help all of the following people be more efficient and effective:

It shows how to simply do what previously took third-party apps like mmhmm or post-production video editing knowledge and lots of time to achieve. It’s so easy that I can finally get around to recording Change Planning Toolkit™ eLearning and certification programs.

So, stay tuned!

Surprise people the next time you present on Zoom or record more compelling instructional videos and e-Learning to power your business or engage your students.

Now would be a great time to hire me to do a virtual keynote for your organization to empower your employees with greater knowledge and capabilities around innovation, change, transformation or design thinking.

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Quick Reminder of Steps to Create Over the Shoulder Slides in Zoom

PART ONE:

  1. Create a new PowerPoint (13.33” x 7.5” works well)
  2. Choose a Background for your Zoom slides
  3. Fill default wide-screen format of all slides
  4. Copy slide from source presentation and paste it as an image onto one of your new background slides
  5. Resize pasted slide image to be 9.5” wide
  6. Position slide image upper right with ¼” border
  7. Repeat

PART TWO:

  1. Open Zoom
  2. Start a Meeting
  3. Click the Start Video icon (ALT + V)
  4. Click the Screen Sharing icon (ALT + S)
  5. Click the Advanced tab
  6. Click on ‘PowerPoint as Virtual Background’
  7. Select Your PowerPoint to import as a background

Help Shape the Next ‘Ask the Consultant’ Episode

  1. Contact me with your question for the next video episode of “Ask the Consultant” live from my innovation studio

  2. Grab a great deal on Stoking Your Innovation Bonfire on Amazon while they last!

  3. Get a copy of my latest book Charting Change on Amazon

Below are the previous episodes of ‘Ask the Consultant’:

  1. EPISODE ONE – What is innovation?
  2. EPISODE TWO – How do I create continuous innovation in my organization?
  3. EPISODE THREE – What is digital transformation?
  4. EPISODE FOUR – What is the best way to create successful change?
  5. EPISODE FIVE – What is design thinking?
  6. All other episodes of Ask the Consultant


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Picking a Problem Worth Solving From a Sea of Problems

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Picking a Problem Worth Solving From a Sea of Problems

In the current environment, human-centric challenges abound, but you can’t focus on solving all of them. Many organizations complain not about having too few ideas, but about having TOO MANY IDEAS. Human-centered design principles can be incredibly helpful to assist with empathy, problem framing, problem re-framing, solutioning, prototyping, hypothesis testing, experimentation, and iteration. All of which can help you narrow down onto a few problems worth solving.

Preparing to Solve the Right Problem

I’d like to share with you here the recording of the keynote I delivered on 9 June 2020 at the virtual ISPIM Innovation Conference titled Picking a Problem Worth Solving From a Sea of Problems:

Because there are not a lot of great tools for Human-Centered Design (aka Design Thinking) I’ve been putting together some tools to make the approach a little more intuitive. I’ve either built, or am in the process of building tools for:

  1. Insight Generation (under construction)
  2. Science Fiction and Futurism (completed)
  3. Problem Finding Canvas (available)
  4. Problem Prioritization (completed)
  5. Problem Deep Dive (completed)

Some of my human-centered design approaches are covered in the virtual keynote video above, and below you’ll find a quick introduction to a simple but powerful tool I created for picking a search area and a challenge to design against:

Inexpensive Tool for Finding Problems Worth Solving

Problem Finding CanvasThe Problem Finding Canvas is intended to help you think deeply about the different areas to explore that you could address, the challenges that make up each of those areas to explore and the opportunities for innovation or improvement that exist in solving those challenges.

Key Focus Areas

The middle of the canvas is designed to help clients uncover more than just the obvious challenges, so be sure and dig deep into the details of the:

  • Users
  • Outcomes
  • Tools
  • Actions/Interactions

Desired Outcome

The Problem Finding Canvas should help you investigate a handful of areas to explore, choose the one most important to you, extract all of the potential challenges and opportunities and choose one to prioritize.

What’s Missing?

I’m in the middle of packaging together the other tools mentioned above into a suite of Human-Centered Design tools for your Design Thinking efforts and a broader Human-Centered Innovation Toolkit™.

What tools do you wish you had for doing design thinking?

What tools are missing from your innovation toolbox that you wish you had?

Please leave a reply in the comments and maybe I can build them for you!


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Innovation Keynote and Change Planning Workshop Special

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January Innovation and Change Planning Toolkit Special

To kickoff January with a bang I thought I would make a special offer to companies and event organizers who would like to get an excellent innovation keynote for their company or event attendees AND get a jump on your competitors by getting trained on how to use my new collaborative, visual change planning toolkit before they do.

This will be a great way to help innovation, change and project managers build strong momentum and results early in 2015.

Here is the offer:

Stoking Your Innovation BonfireBook me between January 21 and March 31, 2015 for either a:

  • 60-90 minute Innovation Keynote
  • 2-4 hour Innovation Workshop
  • 1 Day Innovation Masterclass

… and your attendees will at no additional charge:

  1. Be one of the first groups to get their hands on my revolutionary collaborative, visual change planning toolkit
  2. Get a 1 Day Workshop focused on organizational change and how to use the change planning toolkit

Buy an innovation keynote and get a full-day change planning toolkit workshop for free!

What could be better than that?

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P.S. If you missed my recent webinar ‘Innovation is All About Change’, click here and use PASSCODE 1515 to access the FREE recording (link expired).


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Please Take a Minute to Vote for Me as a Top 5 Innovation & Creativity Speaker

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Vote Braden Kelley a Top 5 Innovation & Creativity SpeakerSpeaking.com is running their annual Top 5 Speaker Awards voting, and if you’ve heard me speak, enjoyed my book Stoking Your Innovation Bonfire, or enjoy all of the written content and video content that I bring to the innovation community, then I’d sure love your write-in vote in the Innovation/Creativity category.

And you might win $500 in the bargain!

Click here to vote

Just write in my name in the space provided (I don’t have a checkbox because they aren’t one of the speaker bureaus that represent me – yet) and scroll all the way to the bottom and fill in your FIRST NAME and EMAIL – and that’s it!

Easy as pie.

They are posting the winners January 21, 2014 so there is only ONE WEEK LEFT to vote.

Click here to vote

Thank you for your support!


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Free eLearning for Global Innovation Certification BETA

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Announcing FREE eLearning for Global Innovation Certification BETA

I am proud to announce the launch of Innovation Tutors – your home for high quality Innovation eLearning, which will be delivered by recognized innovation thought leaders that travel the world delivering innovation keynotes, public masterclasses and corporate workshops.

We are excited to announce our first two BETA eLearning offerings, which we are providing for FREE for a limited time:

— BETA – Global Innovation Certification
— Nine Innovation Roles 101

And, we are proud to announce our partnership with the Global Innovation Management Institute (GIMI) to bring you the referenced BETA – Global Innovation Certification eLearning AND…

There will be more eLearning for the Global Innovation Certification coming soon:

— Level 1 – Associate
— Level 3 – Manager

–> CLICK here for your FREE eLearning for the Global Innovation Certification BETA <-- PLUS, we will be bringing you our own in depth eLearning offering to supplement the certification training or as a standalone to provide your employees with a strong understanding of innovation fundamentals. So watch for the following eLearning and DVD to appear soon: — Innovation 101

So, please enjoy these introductory FREE Innovation eLearnings and watch for more extensive premium eLearning offerings coming soon!

Keep innovating!

P.S. If you have a need for an innovation keynote, public masterclass, or innovation workshop – Please Contact Us!


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Free Public Innovation Keynotes in Wyoming

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This week I will be giving two free innovation keynotes in Wyoming before heading off to Miami to do some client work.

Both Wyoming innovation sessions will have free admission and are open to the public.

Riverton Innovation Keynote Ad

If you live in Wyoming and you’ve already purchased a copy of my book Stoking Your Innovation Bonfire, I will be happy to sign or personalize it for you at either of these innovation events. Or if you have a copy of A Guide to Open Innovation and Crowdsourcing if you happen to have a copy of that.

I will be bringing some of my Nine Innovation Roles cards with me if you’d like to have a peek at those, and will probably have a few copies of my book with me if you’d like to purchase a personalized copy for only $25.

Jackson Hole Innovation Keynote Ad

The first keynote will be on June 5, 2013 in Riverton, Wyoming at 7 PM.

The second keynote will be on June 7, 2013 in Jackson Hole, Wyoming at 7 PM.

In addition to these public innovation keynotes I will also be conducting full-day innovation workshops for Central Wyoming College as part of their Innovation Institute.

If you’d like to do a similar combination of public innovation keynotes and full-day or half-day innovation executive education with me at your college or university, please contact me.


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