What do you do if your communication skills are lacking for a successful Conference Organization career?

To improve communication skills for a successful conference organization career, focus on active listening, public speaking, and written communication. Seek feedback, learn nonverbal cues, adapt communication styles, practice empathy, and stay updated on communication trends. Utilize technology, role-play scenarios, and prioritize continuous learning to enhance your effectiveness in organizing conferences.

Understanding how humans communicate and their preference for modality is important. I’ve made many mistakes by pushing email in our conference communication but not all of our attendees, partners, sponsors, etc communicate that way. Having a focus of how to impact people and deeply communicate via what type of modality is important.

Using other resources can be very helpful. For instance watching you tube videos of people who have succeeded in your very areas of weakness, reading books about the subject and constantly practicing what you've learnt in the mirror can be helpful.

In my experience, asking for help is the most important thing in all types of business ventures - especially with conferences or events. One of the best ways to ask for help is to ask for feedback and navigate opinions of others. The important thing to remember is to understand who is giving the feedback and why or where that feedback comes from. The person who never been to a conference may give feedback that’s great but due to limited experience it may not make the most sense within the container or capability of what you can provide.

In my experience, similar to asking for help and navigating feedback, you should always be continuously learning. The world of conferences and events is always changing enhancing and progressing. Understanding how to connect on a psychological level, how to make people feel, and how to show up with the right energy excitement often times transitions and changes based on what’s going on in the world today.

In my experience building networks and understanding who has influence over the community is one of the most important things to focus on when having a conference or event. The reason why this is important is because influence will drive momentum and having Momentum as far as bringing people together and gathering folks for a conference or an event has the most impact impact.