Productivity
fromFast Company
14 hours agoShould you attend a conference if you're not speaking?
Attending a conference without a speaking role can be beneficial depending on personal goals, networking opportunities, and learning experiences.
Before us, there is a battalion of unemployed chairs. For the Conservatives right now, the fight even to be listened to is not easy. The speech by the shadow chancellor Sir Mel Stride is one of the big set-piece moments of this conference. And yet there were countless empty seats in a modestly sized hall. Next door, in the exhibition centre, there are swathes of empty blue carpet.