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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

In today's divided digital workplace, capturing and maintaining attention is more challenging than ever. To effectively engage teams, you must ensure messaging is relevant to the intended audience and easy to consume. By focusing on three pillars — Amplify, Different, and Connection — you can foster a better understanding of the company, leading to improved internal communications and engagement.

What you will learn:

• Amplify the message:
  • Discover how to craft messages that cut through the noise and capture attention.
  • Explore techniques for utilizing multiple platforms and channels to maximize reach and impact.
• Be different:
  • Learn how to approach each message creatively and relevantly, ensuring it resonates with the intended audience.
  • Understand the importance of adapting content to suit different formats and platforms, maintaining freshness and engagement.
• Build connection:
  • Gain insights into creating messages that form a deeper understanding of shared goals.
  • Explore methods for aligning communication strategies with organizational objectives to drive engagement and motivation.
  • Transform your approach to internal communications, capture attention and drive meaningful engagement in a rapidly changing digital landscape.

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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.

With only one in five employees actively engaged*, many organizations are experiencing high rates of turnover and low rates of productivity and customer satisfaction. How can internal communicators proactively address these issues, while reaffirming the critical nature of their role and demonstrating their ability to positively impact the company’s bottom line? The answer lies in multichannel digital storytelling that educates, engages and inspires current and prospective employees. In this case study presentation, Meaghan Baumwald, head of internal communications at XPO shares how her team uses creative digital storytelling across a variety of channels to drive and sustain record levels of employee satisfaction, customer service and business performance.

*According to the Gallup 2024 State of the Global Workforce report

Through this case study, you will learn:

• How to partner effectively with your company’s executives to create customized digital content that builds awareness of company strategy and drives connection among non-wired workers, especially in times of change and transformation.
• How to meet employees where they are, leveraging both internal and external channels to engage employees while building your brand profile.
• How effective measurement of your digital platforms can guide ongoing channel and content strategy and lead to more creative storytelling.

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

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

Effective leadership communication is essential in the digital workplace, ensuring that employees are engaged, informed, and aligned with organizational goals. This case study explores how a company successfully transformed its leadership communication strategies to adapt to a digital environment. Learn about the challenges faced, the innovative approaches implemented, and the significant outcomes achieved. Gain insights into the best practices for fostering transparency, building trust, and maintaining a strong connection between leaders and employees in a digital setting. You will learn:

• How to identify common obstacles in leadership communication within a digital workplace.
• Innovative strategies used to enhance leadership communication.
• Understand the metrics and outcomes that highlight the effectiveness of improved leadership communication strategies.

Effective internal communication is essential for employee engagement and operational success. This session explores strategies to overcome communication barriers, break down silos, and engage a diverse workforce. Learn how multi-channel outreach, leadership involvement, and continuous feedback improve communication and connection.

Key Takeaways:

• Use a multi-channel approach to reach all employees effectively.
• Engage leadership to champion communication efforts.
• Continuously gather feedback and adapt strategies for improvement.

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.

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

Our panel will share their perspectives and tips for change management communications in the digital workplace. Whether the change is focused on new technology, strategy, or policy, you'll get new ideas to ensure your workforce understands the reasons for change, its impact, and what resources are available to help them navigate changes when they occur. Be prepared to raise questions!

• Learn how to craft clear, compelling messages communicating the rationale behind changes and outline available resources to support employees.
• Discover strategies for leveraging digital tools to facilitate effective change management communications, ensuring widespread and consistent messaging.
• Understand techniques for maintaining transparency and building trust throughout the change process, including engaging leaders and influencers to champion change initiatives.