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Welcome to Internal Communications Strategies in the Digital Workplace.
In this fast-paced forum, you'll get to know your fellow peers and share your biggest internal communications challenges, which will inform the breakout groups later in the day.

Implementing an intranet in a fast-growing organization with a diverse workforce—spanning fully remote, hybrid, and on-site employees—presents distinct challenges. From securing executive buy-in to crafting an engagement strategy that resonates across all employee groups, all while demonstrating the platform's value, this discussion will explore key insights and lessons learned from the first year of the intranet's rollout.

You will learn:

• Strategies to drive adoption and increase engagement
• How to break down silos through user-generated content
• Methods to measure success and demonstrate ROI

• Identifying and implementing the more effective digital communication channels for different types of workplace messages
• Designing attention-grabbing content that respects colleagues' time while delivering maximum impact
•  Creating consistent communication rhythms that build trust and keep teams aligned
• Leveraging multimedia approaches to increase message retention and engagement
• Measuring communication effectiveness and adapting strategies based on feedback

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Buried deep inside cabinets lining long corridors of a warehouse in Florida sit nearly 100 years of accumulated wisdom and experience from generations of McKinsey & Company leaders dating back to its founding. These archives, a 10-terabyte repository of over a million pages of memos, photographs, letters, videos, speeches, and oral histories hold many valuable lessons for McKinsey employees today. So how is McKinsey making that vast body of knowledge more broadly accessible and actionable to its knowledge workers, and what are the applications for AI in internal communications, employee engagement, and knowledge management that go beyond mere content creation?
Learn about how McKinsey is using AI to tap its vast knowledge archive, helping knowledge workers see patterns, avoid past pitfalls, pursue new ideas faster, and even ask one of its firm’s founding leaders about evergreen topics like feedback, firm values, adopting new technologies or developing meaningful client relationships.'

In this session, you will:

• Get insights into AI beyond content generation.
• Understand how you can use AI to revolutionize employee knowledge management, employee engagement, and your internal communications strategies.
• Discuss where AI will next transform workplace knowledge transfer.

Effective employee engagement goes beyond traditional communication—it requires compelling storytelling across multiple digital channels. This fireside chat will explore how organizations use video, social media, intranets, and more to create authentic, impactful narratives that connect employees to company culture and goals.

Key Takeaways:

• How to craft and distribute compelling stories across digital platforms.
• Strategies to encourage employee and leadership participation in storytelling.
• Measuring the impact of digital storytelling on engagement and culture.

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Take part in breakout discussions on topics sourced from the attendees. Lead a conversation and add your voice to the conference!

Building a security-savvy culture is an internal communications and employee engagement challenge, and managing it is crucial to a productive digital workplace. Take part in a wide-ranging discussion where you will discover how to create an effective cybersecurity change management communications plan. You will also understand how to create clear, impactful cybersecurity communications by translating jargon into accessible, actionable language. Discuss methods to engage team members and build a security-conscious culture through regular touchpoints and drive proactive, cyber-secure behavior in your team members, and walk away with:

• Strategies for cybersecurity change management communications plan: define your goal (what is the change in culture and employee behavior that needs to happen?), identify your audience, and craft a plan—from channel selection to the delivery timeline.
• An understanding of the elements of an effective cybersecurity communications plan and how to translate highly technical terms into easily digestible content.
• New ideas to engage team members and build a security-conscious culture— Establish regular touchpoints with team members, such as Cybersecurity Awareness Month, leader blogs, newsletters for security and IT messaging, and social media tools like Viva Engage.

Video has become an essential tool for effective employee communication, fostering engagement, alignment, and connection across teams. But creating professional-quality videos in-house can feel overwhelming, especially when budgets and timelines are tight.

The good news? AI is here to help. By integrating AI into your video production workflows, you can create impactful internal videos faster, more affordably, and with greater creativity than ever before.

In this short session, you’ll learn how to:

• Streamline in-house video production to enhance employee engagement and communication.
• Leverage AI tools to boost creativity and productivity while maintaining a human touch.
• Explore diverse video formats to keep internal messaging fresh and engaging.
• Demonstrate the impact of in-house video creation on cost savings and team alignment.

AI won’t replace your role in employee communications—but it can make you more effective than ever. Join us to discover how you can become the go-to resource for innovative, scalable video content that resonates with your workforce!

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Our panel will share their perspectives and tips for intranet design, focused on providing a unified intranet user experience while effectively managing the needs and nuances of individual stakeholder groups within your organization. Bring your questions, discover new strategies, and share your insights! We’ll cover topics like:

• Formulating intranet design guidelines for multiple internal stakeholder groups across desktop and mobile.
• Managing user expectations and providing direction to stakeholders regarding intranet design.
• Content creation governance strategies for your organization’s intranet.
• Ensuring user-friendliness across desktop and mobile devices.

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