Making conference attendance an asset for your boss and your company

In many cases, you are not the only one who is investing time and money for you to attend conferences. If you are employed (unless you are self-employed or an independent contractor), you are also asking your boss and your employer to make an investment in you via time and money. How do you make your conference attendance an asset for your boss and your company? In addition to the steps we outlined in the previous section, you will want to plan your conference selections and attendance based on how your employer will benefit from the experience, not just how you, personally, will benefit.

You can view the conference keeping in mind how the content you learn will benefit any projects you work on for your employer. This can be a project you work on with your team, a project by another team, or a cross-organizational project. Bringing back the knowledge you learn and applying it to either your team or another team...