Pitching with purpose: How to influence senior stakeholders like only a content designer can
Join JR Miller as he uncovers strategies to captivate decision-makers with your ideas. Learn methods for crafting business narratives that yield meaningful results, specifically with senior stakeholders.
You’ll also learn how to identify common insecurities hindering leadership, and gain insight into how to uncover priorities of business leaders. Along the way, JR will share insights from his personal career journey, including beneficial habits and rituals that shaped his design leadership, grounded in content.
In this session, you’ll learn how to:
- Discover what your business leaders really care about
- Craft a pitch to leadership that is both unassailable and impossible to overlook
- Manage insecurities and feel true confidence in your ideas
More 2024 sessions
Pitching with purpose: How to influence senior stakeholders like only a content designer can
Join JR Miller as he uncovers strategies to captivate decision-makers with your ideas. Learn methods for crafting business narratives that yield meaningful results, specifically with senior stakeholders.
You’ll also learn how to identify common insecurities hindering leadership, and gain insight into how to uncover priorities of business leaders. Along the way, JR will share insights from his personal career journey, including beneficial habits and rituals that shaped his design leadership, grounded in content.
In this session, you’ll learn how to:
- Discover what your business leaders really care about
- Craft a pitch to leadership that is both unassailable and impossible to overlook
- Manage insecurities and feel true confidence in your ideas
We can’t be everywhere: How to introduce AI to your content design workflow
As content designers, we spend so much time answering the same style guide questions or handling microcopy asks. All of this takes away from meaningful high-level strategy work. AI tools can help you become more systems-focused so you can reduce content inconsistencies and maintain a cohesive voice, allowing you and your team to work more effectively.
But … with all the hype surrounding AI writing tools right now, it can be hard to know how to get started using them for your work. By taking a few steps up front (before diving in to experimentation), you can ensure your time is well-spent and feel confident about your decisions.
In this session, you’ll learn:
- How to define content design use cases for AI
- How to train your AI writing tool
- Challenges to look out for
Evaluating AI: Choosing the best tools for your content team
We’ve all been told that generative AI tools have the potential to improve our content and enhance productivity. What now? How do we sort through the hype around dozens of tools and make smart choices about which ones are most helpful to our team?
Gavin will share his team’s method for tool evaluation, as well as ways in which to present findings to leadership and across diverse teams. You’ll walk away with practical templates for evaluating and selecting the right AI tools for your unique needs.
In this session, you’ll learn:
- How to build a list of which AI tools to evaluate
- How to communicate specific outcomes from evaluating several AI tools
- Communication strategies to align AI skeptics and believers
