BENEFITS IN ATTENDING CONFERENCES

BENEFITS OF ATTENDING CONFERENCES 

In our busy world, we often forget the importance of being in a live face-to-face setting with others from the business community. Since there are so many high-quality conferences and events put on each time, you really need to think about which ones you should go to and what you'll get out of them by attending. Small business owners are busy, so the thought of taking a few days away from the office to participate in a conference, trade show, convention or seminar can seem like a waste of time.  However, these live meetings might be just what you need to uncover new ways to growing yourself as well as your business. By attending conferences, below are some important benefits you gain.

Confidence

By attending a conference in your field of interest gives you the vigor to pushing yourself to talk to people you don’t know, you will grow and learn how to facilitate future conversations and make lasting connections. This push will provide you with increased confidence to go and perform beyond what you think could not do.

Meet Experts & Influencers Face to Face

In the course of attending other presentations, you will learn from others and develop your own skills and knowledge about your field. Face-to-face connections opens doors for you to have the attention of and talk to people you wouldn’t otherwise be able to easily talk to or find. It is also important to engage with their work, ask questions and perhaps go and see them after the panel. Moreover, wouldn't want the opportunity to get to know and meet new people who work in the same industry? An incredible amount of sharing and learning can happen. Like in any other profession, networking is very important in our field. This is the way to get invites to join collective research projects in your field of study or work.

Explore new ways of working

You will be able to get hands-on information that is specific to your business, directly from the experts by attending conferences. A well run conference will help you create new ideas to help improve your approach. Even though there are lots of information on the web, conferences will cut through the clutter to deliver the best content specific to your industry or study.

Personal advice

Having like-minded creatives to talk to also gives you the opportunity to get advice from them on all sorts of things related to your business, field of study or even your personal life and obtaining the ever-elusive work-life balance.

Sharing and impacting what you learnt

If you attend a conference, you learn, network and create content. But, to truly make it valuable, you've got to bring all that back and share it with all the people who couldn't get the opportunity to attend the conference, but could benefit from the good stuff. In addition, having the extra responsibility of bringing something back to share encourages your team and other people to be present and engaged during the conference.

You learn new skills

Some skills such as communication, presentation, interview and sometimes public speaking skills are attained and learned by attending conferences. There’s this mentor who often says, “What got you here won’t get you there”.  Speaking from experience, this is so true. Additionally, once you reach “here” you’ll soon want to go “there.” This is very normal human behavior because we’re always looking for ways to grow. From a more pragmatic standpoint, you need to learn new skills in order to stay relevant.

Conferences are designed to spark inspiration and make you think. They are where the next big thing truly lies. Attending conferences has not only improved my business, but also my life in countless ways. By gaining new perspectives, you’ll able to design a life and business in the way you want; also, by learning from other people, you see what’s possible.