Join as we quickly set the stage for this exciting ALI virtual conference.

Let’s kick off the event by turning on your camera to "meet" and connect with your communication peers from across the nation. You'll have this opportunity to discuss challenges and solutions with your peers and share common experiences as we all navigate dramatic change.

We’ll encourage you to connect via LinkedIn to stay in touch post-training to help you manage it all successfully.

 SharePoint is the standard intranet and document-sharing solution for many organizations. Teams integrates with SharePoint. 

So how do you setup a digital workplace that uses both Teams and SharePoint while keeping it simple to communicate and collaborate across your organization? 

 You’re not alone if you’re asking those questions. 

 In this session, we take a practical look at how organizations of all sizes are successfully navigating this challenge and provide you with a practical framework to develop your own SharePoint and Teams integration strategy. 

Learn how Wounded Warrior Project effectively used digital workplace tools to equip their employees with the resources they need to get their job done on a day to day basis, including how to:

• Enable employees to collaborate more efficiently
• Break down organizational silos
• Share news and information globally

Learn how Ferguson, the world's largest specialist trade distributor of plumbing and heating products to professional contractors and a leading supplier of building materials, with $21.8 billion in FY20 sales is using Microsoft 365 to engage 26,000 associates and find innovative ways of serving customers during an unprecedented year. Ferguson has fully embraced Microsoft's modern suite of tools, including:

• Automating Q&A
• Empowering peer-to-peer communities
• Providing virtual customer consultation
• Enabling a company of communicators through digital media

It’s more critical than ever to connect, inspire, and activate people. But it is also more difficult than ever. While many people may have adapted to working remotely, it’s challenging to connect people, particularly outside of their core working groups, to drive culture and communication, and foster knowledge sharing and innovation. 

Hear about the latest Microsoft 365 innovations to help you transform workplace communications, and empower communicators with integrated storytelling tools to inform, engage and inspire people across the organization, including: 

• Home site app for Microsoft Teams. Bring your home site and the best of your intranet directly into Microsoft Teams—seamlessly. The home site app gives your users global navigation across sites, communities, and teams; quick access to sites they use regularly; and a personalized news feed. 
• SharePoint app bar. Create a consistent navigation experience to every site on your intelligent intranet, featuring quick access to important sites across the organization, personally relevant sites, and the news feed. 

• Boost news in SharePoint. Prioritize important news and announcements to appear at the top of news feeds across Microsoft 365. You can boost the visibility of a news article for a set time, until an employee has seen your content, or until a viewer has seen the item in their feed a set number of times. 
• Share news to email, Microsoft Teams, and Yammer. Share a news article directly to your audience’s team, community, or inboxes. 
• Enhancements for communicators in Yammer. Send notifications for priority announcements to the inboxes of all community members or raise the visibility of a post by featuring it in the community and discovery feed. And, with delegate posting, designated users can share messages and announcements to the organization on leadership’s behalf. 
• Built-in templates. Quickly deploy robust scenarios by using predefined sites that integrate the superpowers of Microsoft 365. Easily customize built-in templates to your needs, such as the template for Leadership Connection, and apply them to any existing SharePoint site to give it new superpowers and a beautiful design. 
• Insights for communicators. Understand your reach, impact, and engagement across Microsoft 365 by using new analytics in SharePoint, such as dwell time on content, heatmap views of interaction, and automatic analytics digest powered by AI. Combined these insights with analytics in Yammer, such as enhanced Comm 

Don’t miss this session to get all of your Microsoft 365 questions answered from Microsoft! 

This time is dedicated to you.

Turn your camera off, grab a bit to eat, catch up with work, take a walk. We'll see you back on camera at 1:15.

It’s hard to connect our work with our organization’s desired results unless we plan our communication strategies from the beginning to help deliver those results. This workshop will give you an easy-to-follow, step-by-step process to connect communication to business goals—and then prove the value of the communication.

Specifically, in this session, you will learn the difference between communicating about an organizational strategy and communicating in a way that actually fulfills the strategy—sometimes without even mentioning the strategy itself.

You will also be provided with a step-by-step process for engaging your executive management in communication planning in a way that feels like other, logical business processes they are comfortable with, including:

• Determining which stakeholder groups are most important in helping to achieve a particular goal
• Identifying the ideal behaviors for each stakeholder group to reach the goal
• Discovering through informal research which knowledge and attitude messages are contributing to the current (incorrect) behaviors and which messages would better motivate the ideal behaviors
• Choosing the best channels for the ideal knowledge and attitude messages
• Setting measurable objectives for the messages and channels
• Developing measures that will connect your communications with achievement of the ideal behaviors and organizational goals

Hear how 3500 staff at St. Louis Children’s Hospital are doing what’s right for kids. They’ve created virtual town halls to better inform and listen to their front line, dispersed workforce during changing times. 

  Learn why virtual town halls began and how Microsoft Teams was introduced, including how: 

• Employee feedback was gathered in the process 
• The process was executed using slido, scripting, email alerts and live and recorded video 
• Transparency thrived, resulting in more questions submitted 
• Results are measured 
• Mistakes happen, have fun and more! 

  Leave this session with a list of practical, how-to tips to start or improve your own virtual town halls. 

Support and empower your employees, wherever they are, with Microsoft tools. Discover what has worked, hasn't worked, and changes that have had to be made in this WFH era. With many organizations communicating with dispersed employees for the first time - learn how Microsoft tools have made the transition easier.

Moderated by: Geoff Ables, Managing Partner, C5 Insight

Panelists include:

Loni French, Microsoft MVP

We'll recap highlights from the day.