You wouldn’t ship your pal to a music pageant and ask them to report again on what they loved. It’s one thing you should expertise for your self. In our opinion, the identical will be mentioned about Xerocon. The extra members of your crew that may attend, the extra your observe will profit from it as an entire.
However don’t take our phrase for it. We chat with Lauren Harvey, Chartered Administration Accountant at Full Cease, who has attended a minimum of eight Xerocons. We need to discover out what retains her coming again, and the explanations she believes it’s necessary to convey as many crew members alongside as potential.
Why it is best to come to Xerocon even in case you’ve attended earlier than
Full Cease are very long time customers of Xero, and seasoned Xerocon veterans. They have already got a deep understanding of utilising Xero. So what retains them coming again to Xerocon 12 months after 12 months?
“Within the early years it was about studying what was occurring on the planet of expertise and assembly new individuals,” Lauren says. Now they use it to re-energise the crew and produce some perspective on the aim behind what they do.
“Xerocon is sort of a shot within the arm – I feel everybody wants that generally to get them enthusiastic about what they’re doing.”
Even when your observe is operating effectively and you’re feeling such as you’re getting probably the most out of the Xero platform, you’ll choose up plenty of small good points that can add up in the long term.
“This 12 months, we’re going for little enhancements. That’s what makes Xerocon stand out above the opposite conferences. We don’t must go and get an entire new suite of instruments. We actually simply need to go in and hone in on a couple of little enhancements. Even simply selecting up a couple of issues can be actually nice.”
Your crew will choose up new suggestions and abilities
Typically it takes listening to one thing from a recent perspective for it to sink in.
“I can comfortably speak about what our trade is doing. The crew hears that, and we now have our means of speaking it. However at Xerocon, you’ll usually hear any individual speaking about it in a extremely totally different and utilized means.”
There was a particular occasion at Xerocon that Lauren remembers the place certainly one of her employees had that ‘Ah-Ha’ second. “I bear in mind bringing a member of the crew alongside a few years in the past and there was a characteristic that I believed that they had a whole understanding of, however simply from listening to it another way the penny truly dropped.”
It’s moments like this you could’t replicate with out truly attending the occasion. Everybody will choose up various things and cumulatively your observe will come away with data that you simply didn’t even realise you didn’t have.
Type stronger bonds together with your crew and join with the Xero group
When requested to explain Xerocon in three phrases, Lauren selected “inspiring, collaborative, and enjoyable”. It’s not your commonplace accounting convention. There are such a lot of ways in which you’re capable of have enjoyable together with your crew. In earlier years we’ve had karaoke rooms, bumper automobiles, a merry-go-round, digital actuality video games, a pub on the inexperienced, and an indoor cricket pitch to associate with the a number of hours of keynote audio system.
“Our crew nonetheless talks about shared Xerocon experiences years after they occurred.”
There’s additionally the well-known Xerocon celebration. It’s not solely an opportunity to let your hair down and have a good time together with your crew, however one other nice networking alternative.
“Among the finest conversations occur within the night. Be sure you stick round for the celebration. Most people who I nonetheless have relationships with to today – these conversations began within the night.”
Don’t let attending alone put you off
In the event you’re attending solo, don’t let it deter you. Lauren has been to Xerocon on her personal and located it to be an ideal alternative to fulfill different advisors and Xero employees members. The truth is, she’s nonetheless in touch with the primary particular person she met at her very first Xerocon again in 2012!
In the event you’re slightly nervous about attending alone, there’s no want to fret. There will probably be loads of alternatives to combine and mingle exterior of your observe all through the occasion. The Xero group of advisors are additionally a welcoming bunch. The truth is the crew at Full Cease actively search out solo attendees and embrace them as their very own. Based on Lauren they “have photographs on their pinboard on the workplace to today with individuals who they met on the evening”. That particular person could possibly be you in 2022!
Be a part of us at Xerocon London
Our second launch of Xerocon tickets are on sale now for £280 (excl VAT) till four June 2022 – that’s 20% off the usual value of £350.
Your ticket contains two jam-packed days of leisure, keynotes, breakout periods, and the well-known Xerocon celebration on the finish of day one. Plus it’s all absolutely catered and also you’ll go away with among the most interesting swag the accounting trade has to supply.