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Shaking up business through the lens of popular culture
Sitting through a business presentation isnât always the most thrilling experience. Thatâs why Swinburne Lecturer, Simon Hammond decided to shake up the business world with a new style of presentation to challenge audiences to rethink how business connects with humanity â Lectern Rock.
According to Simon, Lectern Rock is a part theatre, part rock concert, part business insight briefing that was born out of what he saw to be a very boring, vanilla world of presentations in business.
âAfter attending a concert with my daughter, I realised artists were completely transforming the way they presented into a combination of theatre, music, their own oration,â Simon explains.
Simon felt that even the best business presenters werenât bridging the gap between their business concepts and what people engaged with through popular culture.
âI was going to a lot of business presentations that were âdeath by PowerPointâ, so seeing a style of performance that was at the complete opposite end of the scale gave me an idea. I felt strongly that the business world deserved more, so I started to put together a group of musicians for a business-meets-theatre show.â
The result is a show that shares interesting, powerful and sometimes emotive stories about brands that connect with humanity, interspersed with live music that links these themes and encourages the audience to think about popular culturesâ role in business.
Bringing a theatrical style into the classroom
After several years of presenting Lectern Rock around the world, Simon is now teaching the key concepts of his show in the Master of Marketing.
Swinburneâs Australian Graduate School of Entrepreneurship (AGSE) has partnered with Hammond Thinking, a branding collective founded by Simon, to co-design and co-deliver the Branding and Creative Innovation unit.
âThe way I present in the classroom is similar to my style in Lectern Rock. There are a lot of popular culture references and visual cues,â he says.
âIn this unit, we look at the history of mankind and realise that behaviour has always come from a sense of where you fit in and where you belong. We apply that to the business world and show students that the important thing for marketing and branding is to create a sense of belonging, both in your own organisation as well as for your customers.â
Simon believes that itâs this kind of dynamic delivery that will help students to engage in their learning, getting them excited about the world of business and their future careers.
âThere is change needed in the way we all teach in an age where peopleâs attention spans are challenged,â he says. Â
âThe world is vivid and three dimensional and I think you have to bring that into the classroom. You have to keep students engaged instead of just feeding them information and thatâs what weâre doing in this course.â
Written by Rachel Martens, Bachelor of Communications (Media Studies).