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December 09, 2020 - |
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The time zone for this event: [CST]
Day 1 - 12/09/2020 |
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10:00 am - 10:05 am | ALI Welcome & Morning AnnouncementsJoin as we quickly set the stage for this exciting ALI virtual conference. | |||
10:05 am - 10:20 am | Chairperson's Welcome and Speed Networking - C5 InsightGeoff Ables, Managing Partner | C5 Insight Let’s kick off the event by turning on your camera to "meet" and connect with your communication peers from across the nation. You'll have this opportunity to discuss challenges and solutions with your peers and share common experiences as we all navigate dramatic change. We’ll encourage you to connect via LinkedIn to stay in touch post-training to help you manage it all successfully. | |||
10:20 am - 11:00 am | Mini Workshop: Sharepoint Is from Venus, Teams Is from Mars: How to Integrate Your Sharepoint Intranet with Microsoft Teams - C5 InsightKelly Jones, Director, Collaboration Technologies | Atrium Health Geoff Ables, Managing Partner | C5 Insight SharePoint is the standard intranet and document-sharing solution for many organizations. Teams integrates with SharePoint. So how do you setup a digital workplace that uses both Teams and SharePoint while keeping it simple to communicate and collaborate across your organization? You’re not alone if you’re asking those questions. In this session, we take a practical look at how organizations of all sizes are successfully navigating this challenge and provide you with a practical framework to develop your own SharePoint and Teams integration strategy. | |||
11:05 am - 11:20 am | Using SharePoint to Drive Collaboration Across Your Organization - Wounded Warrior ProjectAmy Kaiser, Internal Communications Manager | Wounded Warrior Project Learn how Wounded Warrior Project effectively used digital workplace tools to equip their employees with the resources they need to get their job done on a day to day basis, including how to:
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11:25 am - 11:40 am | Driving Adoption of Teams to Connect Employees and Transform Your Business - Ferguson EnterprisesPeter Stern, Senior Digital Communications Manager | Ferguson Learn how Ferguson, the world's largest specialist trade distributor of plumbing and heating products to professional contractors and a leading supplier of building materials, with $21.8 billion in FY20 sales is using Microsoft 365 to engage 26,000 associates and find innovative ways of serving customers during an unprecedented year. Ferguson has fully embraced Microsoft's modern suite of tools, including:
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11:45 am - 12:15 pm | Deep Dive: Driving Adoption of Teams to Connect Employees and Transform Your Business - MicrosoftLaurel Dzneladze, Employee Communications Digital Platforms Leader | LinkedIn It’s more critical than ever to connect, inspire, and activate people. But it is also more difficult than ever. While many people may have adapted to working remotely, it’s challenging to connect people, particularly outside of their core working groups, to drive culture and communication, and foster knowledge sharing and innovation. Hear about the latest Microsoft 365 innovations to help you transform workplace communications, and empower communicators with integrated storytelling tools to inform, engage and inspire people across the organization, including:
Don’t miss this session to get all of your Microsoft 365 questions answered from Microsoft! | |||
12:20 pm - 1:15 pm | Refresh & Recharge - Sessions Resume at 1:15 p.m.This time is dedicated to you. Turn your camera off, grab a bit to eat, catch up with work, take a walk. We'll see you back on camera at 1:15. | |||
1:15 pm - 1:55 pm | Mini Workshop: A Step-By-Step Process to Link Your Communications to Organizational Strategy and Measure Its Impact - Sinickas Communications, Inc.Angela Sinickas, CEO | Sinickas Communications, Inc. It’s hard to connect our work with our organization’s desired results unless we plan our communication strategies from the beginning to help deliver those results. This workshop will give you an easy-to-follow, step-by-step process to connect communication to business goals—and then prove the value of the communication. Specifically, in this session, you will learn the difference between communicating about an organizational strategy and communicating in a way that actually fulfills the strategy—sometimes without even mentioning the strategy itself. You will also be provided with a step-by-step process for engaging your executive management in communication planning in a way that feels like other, logical business processes they are comfortable with, including:
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2:00 pm - 2:15 pm | Virtual Town Halls: Taking Transparency to the Next Level - BJC HealthCareBrad Lechner, , Senior Media Services Consultant | BJC HealthCare John Twombly, Senior Consultant, Academic Communications | BJC HealthCare Hear how 3500 staff at St. Louis Children’s Hospital are doing what’s right for kids. They’ve created virtual town halls to better inform and listen to their front line, dispersed workforce during changing times. Learn why virtual town halls began and how Microsoft Teams was introduced, including how:
Leave this session with a list of practical, how-to tips to start or improve your own virtual town halls. | |||
2:20 pm - 2:50 pm | Panel Discussion: Microsoft 365 during a WFH Era—the Good, the Challenging & the UnknownNaomi Rettke, Communications Principal | Prime Therapeutics Becky Shvartsman, Digital Communications Specialist | Vertex Inc. Windy Roy, CFO | Duncan-Parnell Loni French, Associate Director, Internal Communications | Microsoft MVP Geoff Ables, Managing Partner | C5 Insight Support and empower your employees, wherever they are, with Microsoft tools. Discover what has worked, hasn't worked, and changes that have had to be made in this WFH era. With many organizations communicating with dispersed employees for the first time - learn how Microsoft tools have made the transition easier. Moderated by: Geoff Ables, Managing Partner, C5 Insight
Panelists include: Loni French, Microsoft MVP Windy Roy, CFO, Duncan-Parnell Inc.
Becky Shvartsman, Digital Communications Specialist, Vertex Inc.
Naomi Rettke, Communications Manager, Prime Therapeutics
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2:50 pm - 3:00 pm | Close of Day One & Final Thoughts - C5 InsightGeoff Ables, Managing Partner | C5 Insight We'll recap highlights from the day. |
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