Enjoy complimentary coffee, tea and continental breakfast as you meet your workshop leader and fellow attendees.

Digital is transforming our workplaces at an ever-increasing pace. But many digital workplace projects are being left behind. One of the most critical reasons: not understanding the unique planning process.

This session will dive into what should be included in your annual plan, how to build it, and what to consider leaving out. You will leave equipped with the knowledge needed to build a roadmap that ensures long-term success, including how to:

• Get your team engaged
• Set priorities and understanding what realistically can and cannot be done
• Build your business case
• Measure the ROI
• Benchmark user satisfaction
• Analyze and constantly improve your digital workplace plan

You'll take away a workbook with how-to instructions for creating your plan, and a list of ideas for either a new project launch or an annual plan for moving an existing project forward.

Enjoy complimentary coffee, tea, and other refreshments as you network with your peers.

As a communicator, you can produce more effective employee communications just by developing a deeper understanding of your audiences. In this engaging workshop, you will come away with a unique methodology for building strategic communication campaigns. The audience-centric approach employs a collaborative mapping technique that harnesses the collective insight of your communication and design teams. It has resulted in successful enterprise-wide programs for companies such as Gap Inc., GE, Starbucks, Oracle, and Genentech.

In this comprehensive and hands-on workshop, you will leave with tools to help you:

• Apply the basics of the audience-centric communication planning methodology
• Integrate thinking models from change management, learning, and communications design
• Discover new ways to identify and meet the needs and preferences of your audiences and stakeholders
• Select and integrate new technology into your organization’s culture, based on specific learning styles and audience concerns
• Build multi-dimensional campaigns that sustain mindshare and momentum, and change attitudes and behavior to meet business objectives

Reservations have been made at a number of local restaurants. Don't miss this opportunity to have lunch with your peers at a local Las Vegas hot spot!
**Everyone is financially responsible for their own lunch.

Exhaling at the end of a successful internal event is incredibly rewarding. But the grueling time spent planning and organizing it, not so much. There’s so much to balance— many cooks in the kitchen, gaining alignment, navigating new relationships plus juggling multiple other priorities on a backdrop of how our pandemic world sees-saws between in person and virtual.

Despite what may feel like the odds stacked against you, this is vitally important work that brings company culture to life and makes employees feel the culture, creates excitement, increases their sense of belonging, welcomes diverse perspectives and motivates the team. It’s why we continue to organize enriching experiences for them.

Marissa Reale is Senior Comms Strategist at Local Wisdom, working in one of their client studios. She supports a portfolio brand and leads communications strategies for milestone observances, speaker events and employee resource groups related to mental health and well-being.

In this interactive and highly engaging workshop, Marissa shows you how to cut through the noise when there’s so much to do and how implementing a communications plan and run of show can help you get organized, stay focused and meet your employee engagement goals.  Whether it’s a company town hall, an appreciation rally, strategic announcement, or whatever, this session gives you insights on where to start, how to hone in on a single vision, and ways to delegate the work. On top of that, you’ll get access to templates and tools built from her wisdom, and you’ll get to experience the creative process with fellow workshop attendees.

You’ll want to attend this workshop so you can walk out with:

• Aligning on a unified vision and keeping stakeholders involved
• Creating a run of show and identifying authentic topics and engaging speakers
• Collaborating with leaders, departments, and ERG groups
• Creating a comprehensive communications plan

Cheers to a great day full of content! Join us in the hotel lobby main bar for complimentary drinks and networking with your peers.