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  Are you ready to transform your workplace into a productive, collaborative, and exciting environment? It's time to discover the essential intranet features that can help you achieve just that! In today's new workplace, effective communication and collaboration are critical to achieving overall organizational success. An intranet can be a powerful tool to engage employees and foster collaboration, but not all intranets are created equal. To truly optimize productivity, it's essential to identify the right intranet features for your organization's unique needs. Join Simpplr's internal communications expert, Julie Miller and employee experience expert, Aline Mello, as they discuss: Three Session Takeaways: ● Strategies for identifying the right intranet features for your organization's unique needs ● Best practices for engaging employees and fostering social connections ● Real-world examples of how intranet features have been successfully implemented to help employees flourish Read more

  Endorsed by the IABC, the annual State of the Sector report is the definitive global survey of the internal communication and employee experience landscape brought to you by Gallagher’s Employee Experience and Communication team – and informed by 2,000+ responses from communication and HR professionals around the world. In this webinar, Sharn Kleiss and Chris Lee will discuss some of this year’s emerging themes, how communication professionals can action these. Three Session Takeaways: • Explore how communication influences culture and belonging – and impact the way people feel about work • Find out how organizations are navigating uncertainty? • Understand how the channel mix is changing to incorporate digital and technology Read more

Presented by: Clare Gleghorn, CEO, Bastion Reputation Crisis communications and reputation management is never a simple game of checkers. It’s a strategic and sometimes drawn-out game of chess. There are some very basic rules that you must abide by to survive a crisis or major reputational issue. But beyond that, being able to advise and counsel anxious business leaders during one of the most stressful times in their lives requires strategic nous, agility, the right temperament, and creative flair. The following proposed three-part training webinar has been commissioned by IABC Global Learning. It is designed for communications professionals wanting to increase their knowledge, skills, and understanding of crisis communications and reputation management. Each module of the three-part series is designed to build on the foundations of the last, building not only a broad understanding of the skills, techniques, processes, and best practices in crisis communications leadership and support, but also building a deeper strategic toolkit from which to draw when called up to support crisis or major issue. It is grounded in contemporary crisis communications practice and embeds digital technology and communications considerations. Read more

  Creating an effective communication and knowledge management strategy in a fully remote or hybrid work environment remains an ongoing challenge not only within teams, but across organizations. How can organizations leverage an employee experience platform to enable and empower employees to effectively serve customers? Join us to learn how adopting a dynamic approach to knowledge management through social learning, video messaging, and effective content strategy can accommodate the ever-evolving landscape of a distributed workforce. Read more

  The work experience has continued to evolve and change over the past few years, creating a new digital work environment. How can we apply all the learnings from recent years to keep up with the new future of work? Join Simpplr’s Julie Miller, Sr. Employee Communications Specialist, and Aline Mello, Sr. Employee Experience Specialist, as they share their tips and tricks for innovating the digital work experience in 2023. In this engaging session you will learn: ● How to improve employee productivity, culture, and wellbeing in a digital workplace ● Recommendations to ramp up the employee experience ● What internal communications should and should not be doing in 2023 Read more

  Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) are everywhere these days. As companies grow, change, and morph into new versions of themselves, communications pros must ensure that messaging is just right. Internal comms people need to ensure their messages promote business continuity, boost employee morale, reduce anxiety, and retain talent. But what goes into M&A comms to ensure they’re just right? Join Ashley Twaddell, Director, Internal Communications at Vox Media, as she shares how the leading modern media company aligned with newly-acquired employees to power successful communications during their latest M&A. Ashley will share: ● IC lessons learned from Vox Media’s M&A ● How Vox Media built trust with a communication strategy ● The new digital workplace (including Simpplr) Speakers:  Ashley Twaddell, Vox Media Hani Khan, Simpplr Read more