There has never been a time where improving the employee experience has been more critical. Organizations need new and innovative approaches and solutions as work and the workforce change. Today, every organization shares a need to enhance how we communicate and engage, collaborate and connect, and manage and develop employees. The question that is often hard to answer is, what is the best way to meet that growing need?

Join internationally recognized industry expert Richard Harbridge as he shares insight into the future of employee communication, employee collaboration, and employee management, and perhaps more importantly, what organizations are doing today to prepare for it.

For Employee Communications:
These past few years have accelerated changes and disrupted how companies lead, enable, empower, and engage around communications. Leaders in corporate communications, human resources, and IT are all tackling new responsibilities and challenges in connecting with employees who no longer regularly share the same workspace and may be overwhelmed with increased communication volume, velocity, and variety.

We have been catapulted into a new employee experience paradigm, and it can be challenging to get our bearings. We now need to plan for the future, but it can be hard to consider the future when the present is filled with unique and pressing communication challenges. Yet, the future of communication may hold answers to problems we are experiencing today; it may inspire us to change and, perhaps most importantly, enable us to understand how to prepare to embrace a better one.

Gain insights into employee communications, intranets, the digital workplace, and employee experience strategy and tactics with expert support to share insight on how to better understand, leverage, and prepare for the future of employee communications.

For Employee Collaboration:
Today employees digitally collaborate with more people, more frequently, on more things and in more ways than ever before. This increased volume, velocity, and variety is changing how digital employee collaboration is evolving.

We can no longer re-actively respond to collaboration needs with baseline enablement. We need to pro-actively work to improve the collaboration and process experiences of our digital employee experience or we risk being left behind in the race for talent, competitive advantage, and better business outcomes.

There are proven approaches and best practices that organizations are using today to lead the way when it comes to collaboration and the employee experience. From the future with Microsoft Loop and ContextIQ to the more connected and integrated experiences of Microsoft Viva, Microsoft Teams and Outlook today there is a tremendous amount worth knowing.

Gain insights into employee collaboration, how organizations are responsibly enabling, empowering and enhancing it and be better prepared for the future of collaboration.

For Employee Management:
The world of employee management has undergone a rapid and evolving change. Leaders and managers have navigated unexpected and challenging times. Workers worldwide are rethinking where and how they work and why they work where they do. The need to re-evaluate culture, technology, and management practices is greater today than it ever has been before.

With the continued shift towards hybrid work, the importance of a physical workplace has decreased, and the importance of cultural and technological advantage has become more evident. What are organizations looking to do in the future to continue to improve the employee experience, and what successes are they having now as they try new tools, methods, and approaches?

Today, leaders and managers have new digitally-enabled options from new mainstream categories of digital employee management tools like Viva Goals for objective management to Viva Insights for improving how we, our teams, and our organization work. The demands of employees are higher than ever when it comes to learning and can only be met with pro-active and connected learning initiatives like those powered by Microsoft Viva Learning, while employee recognition, connection, and networking remain essential areas of focus during a time of considerable workforce change.

Gain insights into the complexities and practices organizations are using to improve adoption, alignment, excellence and more.

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