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Reaching deskless workers can be a challenge with only traditional communications channels at your disposal. After extensive research to understand how to support its unplugged healthcare workers, Encompass Health launched an employee mobile app in 2015 with the goal of engaging its workforce through content and helpful self-services tools its employees both needed and wanted.

In this session, you will learn:

• How to build an employee app that suits your dispersed workforce
• Tangible ideas to create an app adoption strategy that answers employees’ all-time-favorite “what’s in it for me?” question
• How to engage and support content contributors to take part of the app management burden off your team
• Ways to measure your app’s success

It’s one thing to partner with a software company who tells you what you should do. It’s another thing to partner with a company that follows its own advice. Firstup walks the walk, talks the talk and delivers. 

In the summer of 2021, two workforce comms heavyweights SocialChorus and Dynamic Signal merged to form Firstup.

In this conversation, you’ll see:

• The importance of leadership communication at the onset of change
• The vital role internal communications plays during mergers 
• How communication can be the catalyst to bring cultures together 

And what you won’t see:

• A boring product demo

Enjoy complimentary coffee, tea, and other refreshments as you network with your peers. Be sure to stop by and visit your sponsors.

Over the past five years, consumer adoption of short-form audio and video content has skyrocketed with platforms like TikTok, Instagram, and Snapchat. Platforms like these are driving a massive shift in employee communications preferences, making secure short-form audio and video a must-have within organizations over the coming years for all generations within the workforce.

Yet, many communications teams have struggled to incorporate short-form content? Why? A couple of the most critical reasons, not understanding how and why it should fit into your communications strategy. And analysis paralysis, which keeps many organizations from being able to deploy and iterate quickly.

This session will dive into what short-form content is, how to gather and create it, and how it can quickly integrate and deploy into an enterprise communications strategy. You will learn the benefits of creating more authentic connections, storytelling, and aligning short-form content with communications initiatives that result in greater employee engagement and sentiment. You will leave equipped with the knowledge needed to build a pilot roadmap that ensures long-term success, including how to:

• Align short-form content with your company's strategic goals
• Get your team engaged
• Build your business case and securing business ambassadors
• Benchmark user satisfaction and analyzing engagement to improve your digital communications plan

You'll take away a guide with step-by-step instructions for creating your case for short-form audio and video, and a list of ideas that will help you communicate better with your employees.

In this session you’ll get a tour of some of the recently introduced employee engagement offerings from Microsoft including:

• Viva Connections: For integrating Teams and SharePoint
• Viva Insights: For real-time feedback on productivity, well being, management and leadership
• Viva Learning: A simple and free learning solution built into Teams
• Viva Topics: Making knowledge and communication more findable across the organization

You’ll learn what each of these solutions are, see brief demonstrations of each, learn about the free versus premium features, and how to interact with your SharePoint Administrator or Partner to get these deployed within your organization.

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

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When a crisis hits, chief communicators must have a channel at their fingertips, from digital outreach to in-person communications. This discussion is based around preparation for and response to a multitude of crises: mass casualties, continued pandemic response and cyberattacks/cybersecurity/technology disruptions, and can be applied to other crises, including weather/environment, company disasters and even private situations.

You will walk away with the key action items to execute your own crisis communication playbook:

• Key Bullet Points
• Advance Planning
• Immediate Response & Communication
• Media Requests
• Best of the Rest

You've submitted your biggest internal communication challenges, you've continued to submit questions over the past 24 hours, and this is your opportunity to get answers to those questions.

With an expert speaker panel with a variety of experience levels - you're bound to takeaway practical ideas that will immediately enhance your internal communications strategies.