5 reasons to attend Design Leadership 2021
Design Leadership 2021 is in two weeks, on Thursday 25 November. Here’s why you should attend if you’re a design leader.
1. Challenges you can relate to
Unlike more generalist conference events, Design Leadership elevates discussion to a level you can relate to in your role as a leader. Beyond new skills and tools, case studies and lessons learned, topics focus on the challenges that can only be solved through leadership.
Walk away empowered to meet the next challenge.
2. Gain applied knowledge
It’s in the name. Design Leadership is all about speaking to the unique challenges of being a leader in the UX Design field. This means discussing things from the perspective of activity: setting standards, managing teams, instilling new practices, and changing the way things work.
Walk away with more than knowledge, walk away with actions.
3. Find support and empathy among leaders
Spend time with other design leaders and share stories, approaches and experiences. Take inspiration from each other’s successes, and empathise with the challenges and vulnerabilities of being a leader.
Walk away feeling less alone and more confident.
4. Focus on the bigger picture
It’s easy to get mired in the daily routine of being a manager or skills leader. Take a day to step back from the grind and take in more of the future landscape, picturing where you want to get to and mapping out how to get there.
Walk away with a fresh vision of what happens next.
5. Development is good for the soul
Managers spend a lot of time working on employee development and making sure their team is skilled and continuously learning. You need this too. Development activity like conferences, stimulates new ideas and energy.
Walk away feeling reinvigorated about your own development.