No More Town Hall Meetings and Other Evolutions in Leadership Communications

Speaker: Elizabeth Williams, Co-founder, The Academy of Business Communications and Andrew Brown, Co-founder, Academy of Business Communications

Let's face it, most employee town hall meetings are pretty terrible. Even before the pandemic forced our leadership teams to find the mute button, filling a room full of people and talking at them for hours on end was really not working in most organizations. It's time we got our leaders off the hamster wheel of roadshows and all-hands meetings and started helping them build trust, engagement and purpose that sticks. This session will look at why our leaders need a new communications toolkit and the skills to go with it. Using real-world examples and group discussion, we'll talk about:

• Communicating with a hybrid workforce
• Why executives need to stop cheerleading and start listening
• Communication tools that build trust

Outcomes:

• Define new tools to evolve leader communications
• Understand the building blocks for a measurable strategy for remote and in-person communication between leaders and employees