- High ROI
Many case studies show that, on average, improving your knowledge base can at
least double your output—and save countless more dollars in avoiding
compliance failures. With senior managers and directors being implicated in so
many scandals these days (e.g. option backdating), spending a thousand dollars
to learn how to avoid serious trouble is cheap indeed.
Spending a few days of the work year on training and networking is nothing
compared to the time your team can waste arguing issues around the meeting room
table. Better to make the decisions faster, based on real data and sound
methodology. After 3-4 days of the workshops and panels at the NASPP
Conference, you will have a checklist of action items to look into with respect
to your own plans, policies and procedures. Many of our attendees tell us
that the Conference has prevented them from making disastrous errors and helped
them correct critical procedures.
- Long-Lasting Job Skills
The NASPP Conference focuses on
practical skills with proven effectiveness across many projects.
The enhanced work productivity you’ll achieve from learning these skills will be
valuable for years, because human interface lessons typically endure.
Why? Because human behavior doesn't change nearly as
fast as technology, which is one reason the ROI is so much greater from training
about core competencies than from lectures about the latest fad. The facts about
the latest scandal won’t matter next year, but the insights you learn at this
Conference will. So, you'll continue to reap returns from your investment across
many future projects.
- Motivating Experience
In many companies, being one of the few responsible for equity compensation
can feel very lonely. When you attend the NASPP
Conference, you’ll be energized by the experience of
networking with hundreds and hundreds of kindred souls who care
just as much about your job as you do.
You’ll leave with new ideas, practical to-do lists, and other useful tools to
help examine your ideas in new ways, knowledge to create better processes, and
examples to inspire the rest of your team. You also expand your network of
people that you can call on when you need advice, so that maybe things won't
seem so lonely in the future.
- Experienced (and Reality-Based) Speakers
Our speakers have presented many times to audiences all over the world. They
give good talks, or they wouldn't be invited back. But they
aren’t worn-out, "professional speakers" who speak at every event in the field.
Our presenters spend most of their time doing actual work,
meaning that they have plenty of war stories to illustrate their topic.
In many cases, our speakers are actually the pioneers who invented the methods and
conducted the research that everybody else simply reacts to. We
won’t waste your time on hearsay from secondary speakers; you can come here and
get it straight from the original source—and ask your questions to the people
who actually implemented the latest processes and practices, etc.
- High-Octane Knowledge Transfer
Our speakers know enough about their topic to fill up at least five times as
many hours as they’re given. They’ve thus made the tough calls to prune
their material
to the essence of what you need to know.
Our panels are based on real studies of real people, showing which ideas work
in the real world—and which don't. We tell it like it is,
and don't shy away from saying that a famous company has a failed idea, if
that's what the data shows.
- Experienced—and Amazing—Audience to Network With
Our Conference participants are amazing—over two thousand professionals
gathering in one place for several days to meet and share experiences.
The halls buzz
with discussions among people from all types of organizations, from small
businesses to the world's biggest and most famous companies to enormous
government agencies. Regardless of their organization’s size, all attendees work
on the same issues that you do—and care passionately about ideas that
work, rather than simply sound good. Discovering the
lessons learned from countless other teams who have dealt
with the problem you’re currently facing is one of the NASPP Conference's
greatest benefits.
