Let’s face it–employees are burnt out. Tragedies dominate the news cycle yet political gridlock reigns; our “always on,”constantly connected lifestyle seems to be making us even busier but somehow lonelier than before. Combine this general state of theworld and throw in the mix some passionate advocates fighting for decades to protect against climate change, environmental justice, and saving wildlife, and you’re bound to hear an employee complaint now and then. But what if–hear me out–it wasn’t all doom and gloom? What if you had the data to prove it?

This session will teach you:

●Qualitative and quantitative strategies to measure the impactof your intranet and other communications tools.

●How to listen to what your colleagues don’t know how to say.

●How to reframe communications challenges when the goinggets tough

Your team is what makes your company run–without engaged team members, you're going nowhere. How do you boost and maintain engagement in a workforce with countless items competing for your team's attention? How do you develop a sense of pride in the organization through inclusion and effective communication?

Give them a variety of content–meet your team where they are and speak to them on their terms. Keep evolving and thinking fresh. Make your modern intranet the first place people go in the morning and make it worth their while. Team members want to be in the know and they like the spotlight to occasionally shine on them. Get their attention through compelling content and drive them to your digital platforms. Now you have an audience to communicate important, company-wide information. The best content is organic content–for your team, by your team. Keep introducing new initiatives where your team can actively participate in the discussion.

You’ll learn:

●How to create intranet content that will get attention NOW–no waiting for money for costly campaigns.

●Strategies for sustaining growth in team member engagement and making them feel comfortable communicating.

●Success is when team members feel that internal communications is on their side, interacting with them and answering questions vs one-sided communication that just tells them what to do.

Given SharePoint Online as your intranet and not sure where to begin? Are you an internal comms team with limited staff,support, and budget? Learn from my mistakes! I will share our process from beginning to end to give you some ideas on a ligh tweight roadmap you could adapt, and I will share what we learned along the way, including how we managed some tricky challenges and specific user needs, and how we manage our (now stronger than ever) relationship to IT, HR, and other important departments. I will share some of the (pretty nice!) pages we made using only the built-in resources plus some free tools like Canva. It won’t be all sunshine and roses, though: I will share some of the challenges we still have and are working to address.This session is for the least technical, but most scrappy among us. My credentials in that department? I had never even heard of SharePoint before I took this on last year, now it’s one of my team’s major accomplishments for our organization.

In our engaging panel, experts explore effective communication for intranet changes, crucial for communications practitioners. They'll address key challenges like user-centricity and adoption resistance, sharing strategies for aligning user needs with goals, managing content efficiently, and ensuring inclusivity in change processes.

You’ll learn:

●Strategies for incorporating a user-centric approach in yourcommunication plan to increase intranet adoption and reduce resistance.

●Techniques for defining and communicating clear objectives for intranet changes to align with organizational goals and enhance user clarity.

●Best practices for content management, ensuring mobile compatibility, and maintaining security and compliance to optimize the effectiveness of your intranet.