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Learn how you can adapt the top secrets salespeople use when networking, building rapport, and pitching ideas to clients to influence and win the favor of your own internal decision-makers.

Today’s communicators face many challenges. They’re not always given a seat at the leadership table, they need to pitch their ideas to attain budgets and resources, and they need buy-in and alignment across departments and functions. Communicators must tap into their influence to successfully break through these demands.

In this session, they’ll share 10 secrets top salespeople turn to when networking, building rapport and pitching ideas. These philosophies are wildly useful for anyone looking to cast a spell and influence the people around them. In this session, you’ll learn how to:

• Catapult your leadership presence
• Confidently pitch your ideas and solutions
• Ask for what the organization needs
• Influence decision-making
• Get to the “YES” you’re looking for

In this session you will learn how to:

• Plan video content that tells a story while building community and boosting employee morale
• Drive employee engagement during the creative process
• Share engagement results with leadership to influence culture

Are you looking for more authenticity in your employee communications? Consider a podcast and the opportunity to give a voice to passionate employees to talk about the work they are doing that others might be curious about.

In this session, learn what it takes to produce a podcast, including overcoming any technology fears, planning a sustainable series, and giving employees space to use their own voices for more personal connection in the workplace. Leave ready to:

• Create a sustainable schedule that you can easily manage along with the rest of your workload
• Overcome analysis paralysis. It’s easy to start researching equipment you might need and feel overwhelmed. Particularly if you don’t have recording experience
• Just get started. It won’t be good at first, but you will get better with each episode

Take this time to digest what you've learned and grab a bite to eat, refill your coffee, and stretch before we begin our final sessions.

• Reach out and engage with their people at scale
• Co-define priorities for rapid action
• Demonstrate a culture of inclusion and belonging

Will A.I. take your job? No, just the opposite. A.I. will finally help you level the playing field.

In this session, you’ll not only learn the implications of A.I. to internal communications, but you’ll have the unique opportunity to dive into actual companies that have implemented A.I. successfully. You’ll see first-hand why they did it and the results they are seeing.

Leave this session knowledgeable about A.I. and equipped with the information needed to convince your leaders that employee engagement is an investment worth making, including:

• The new employee experience driven by A.I.
• The staff experience – before and after both in terms of workload and time
• The data A.I. can unearth for your organization and the impact it can have on your internal communications strategy moving forward

Share your key takeaways as we go over the top themes of the conference helping you organize your strategy moving forward.

What is Your Story for the year? As we spend days, nights, and weekends writing stories to reach our diverse workforce, we neglect creating the most critical story: our own. To continue to advance the profession and professional, we must not only advocate for ourselves and have a voice in major decisions, but we also must do something often neglected: take care of our mind and body.

Following this session you will:

• Gain insights based on survey results from peers on their experiences with health and the workplace
• Apply traditional communications and marketing planning techniques for creating fitness and wellness goals that work for anyone and set yourself and your teams up for success
• Create a personal fool-proof wellness accountability plan on a page