Welcome to ALI's 4th Annual Aligning HR & Internal Communications Virtual Conference.

Our Conference Chair will go over a few details and kick things off.

Then you'll have a chance to say hello, share your challenges and get to know a little about your IC peers. You are encouraged to turn on your camera to join in on the fun and interaction.

Details coming soon!

A company (or, for that matter a large public or nonprofit organization) is a collection of small towns within a bigger city. It has territories (office locations), governing officials (leadership teams), Laws (processes and procedures), citizens (law and non-law-abiding employees), and businessmen (investors and shareholders).

As internal communicators, we are the glue that holds all these facets – aka hats that we all wear- within our organizations. When planning our campaigns, we need to think of which hats are we addressing at any time and what do we need them to do, know, feel as a result?

In this workshop, we will be discussing

1. Five "Hats" which employees would wear in an organization
2. What each "Hat" represents
3. What messages would resonate with each "Hat"

We all understand the importance of culture and what having a good or destructive culture can do to employee morale, satisfaction, and retention. But few may take the time to recognize when the workplace culture needs a little pick-me-up and the joint responsibility of HR, People Leaders, and Internal Comms to get it back on track.

During this session, you’ll learn:

• Ways to engage all teammates in strengthening workplace culture
• How to use your culture as an asset and key retention tool
• What a post-COVID workplace culture could look like and why you should start thinking about it, and planning, now

COVID-19 has changed perceptions globally about remote work and presented an opportunity to rethink how and where we do it to best engage our teams and meet organizational objectives.

In this session, you’ll get ideas about:

• How we can reconstruct how work is done and how we might redesign the workplace to support organizational priorities
• How to communicate with and engage your team in the process in a way that strengthens culture
• Attributes of a successful workplace strategy that will help get executives on board

Increasingly, the roles and responsibilities of employee resource groups (ERGs) in organizations must transition from historically social networks to strategy partners that directly impact the business by providing partnership in recruiting and retention of human capital, and community and even client engagement.

This creates opportunity allowing the voices of employees to be heard while leveraging the power of diverse thinking and networks to influence the workplace of the future; its workforce, clients, and stakeholders through employee engagement and development, while embedding D&I into the very DNA of organizations.

During this session, you’ll learn about:

• Defining a value proposition that is strategically aligned to seeing and seizing business innovation and growth opportunities
• Leveraging ERGs for sourcing and recruiting, employee engagement (including D&I efforts), and community impact
• Activating your D&I and ERG structure and program management to develop programming, partnerships, processes, and events that are high impact and inclusive of multiple dimensions of diversity.

Additional panelists to be announced shortly.