Enjoy complimentary coffee, tea and continental breakfast as you network with fellow attendees on this final day.

With a day, or two if you joined us in the workshops, under your belt you might be feeling a bit overwhelmed.

Together we will recap yesterday's top takeaways and set the stage for this final day of learning.

Suzanne Stanard, Internal Communications Lead & Bulletin Editor | NC State University

NC State is such a large, multifaceted university that it's been my goal from day one to help break down silos and build community. The pandemic presented even more (unanticipated, but valuable) opportunities to launch new communications initiatives that connect and celebrate our faculty and staff. In this session, we'll dig into a few different story series to uncover how they've increased employee engagement, driven web traffic and helped improve morale during an exceptionally challenging time. 

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

Be sure to stop by and visit your sponsors and be sure to fill out your evaluation forms.

From the Great Resignation to employee driven workplace decisions never has there been a time in recent history when organizations have faced such intense levels of change.

Join this session to learn how leading change with deeply aligned communications can break through the noise to be the tipping point for:

• Employee engagement
• Retention
• Innovation

The Brand and Culture Alignment Toolkit (BCAT) was designed to bring teams into alignment around their collective purpose and inspire each member to become the best version of themselves, in support of the people and communities they serve.

Leave this interactive session with new ways for:

• Unifying disparate teams
• Engaging (or re-engaging) your people
• Stimulating collaboration
• Inspiring continuous self-improvement
• Fostering open communication, willing collaboration, and innovation
• Shifting behavior from negative to positive by breaking down silos and overcoming passive aggressive behavior
• Increase productivity and overall company performance

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

Be sure to stop by and visit your sponsors!

We empower the restaurant community to delight their guests, do what they love, and thrive. So, let’s take that same strategy internal by taking a marketing approach to internal communications.

This session will answer the below questions:

• How do you apply segmentation?
• How do you send the right message to the right person?
• How do you send it at the right time?
• How to increase internal audience engagement?

Reservations have been made at a number of local restaurants.

Don't miss this opportunity to have lunch with your peers at a local Boston hot spot!

**Everyone is financially responsible for their own lunch.

Why does your employee experience look and feel different than the consumer experience? A powerful way to bridge the gap is through the use of podcast, but it is easy for this fresh new tool to blend in with the old. This session will discuss how to ensure podcasting success from pitch to implementation to expansion using examples within a $20B company going through Transformation.

You will also learn about:

• Selling the idea of internal podcasting to leadership
• Why podcasting is a good fit for frontline employees
• What not to do with your podcasts

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.

Moderator: Victoria Dew

More panelists TBA!

Thank you for joining us for the 9th Annual Strategic Internal Communications Conference.

Be sure to share your thoughts and photos using #ALI_IC.

You will receive a link to OneDrive next week with copies of all presentations.