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Recorded: December 2021 Career Roadmap: Foundation, Generalist/Specialist, Strategic Adviser, Business Leader New Changes and Challenges have made our Health, Wealth, and Happiness Top of Mind, Now More Than Ever, But: WORK: 77% of all professionals suffering burnout with significant impact to quality of their work and their lives.  COUPLES: Study finds a 34% rise in divorce filings in summer 2020 compared with summer 2019. PARENTING: 70% of parents current family responsibilities are a significant source of stress in their lives.  ORGANIZATIONS: Workplace stress is estimated to cost business ~ $500 billion/year. It. Does. Not. Have. To. Be. Like. This. Enter a new 5-step strategy for work and life to help us turn this around. In a lively one hour webinar, with power point presentation, Interactive Q/A, and real time instruction and practice of the powerful mindset reset tool that can be used by anyone, anywhere, anytime—you will learn what it takes to get from stress to success in your own work and life.  Three Session Takeaways:  ONE Powerful 30 Second Mind Tool That Works for Every Aspect of Work and Life. A Proven 5-Step Strategy to Set the Right Course and Keep Things on Track. How to Enjoy and Maintain High Performance Without Burning out!   Speaker: Madelaine Claire Weiss, MBA, LICSW, BCC Read more

Recorded: August 2021 Career Roadmap: Foundation, Generalist/Specialist, Strategic Adviser, Business Leader So, you created a cracking corporate story and some awesome content to support it. The audience at your CEO town hall gave it a standing ovation and the survey feedback is glowing.   Now’s the time for a reality check. You haven’t achieved anything. The real work is just beginning.   It’s one thing to create an awesome corporate story. Ensuring your senior leaders, people leaders, and, ultimately, employees really buy into it is something else entirely.   That’s why the dreaded ‘cascade’ is so difficult that many have given up on it.   But it's possible to build an organization where everyone understands the big picture and, critically, how their work contributes to it. You just need to realize that you can’t just ‘communicate’, ‘launch’, or ‘release’ this story. You’ve really got to sell it and make it real for people.   Thankfully, the move to virtual ways of working makes this daunting task more achievable.  This session will begin to answer three questions… How can I make the virtual environment work for me? How can I help our senior and people leaders communicate the story? How can I measure and demonstrate progress? What are the tips and traps?   Speakers: Zora Artis & Wayne Aspland Read more

Recorded: July 2021 Career Roadmap: Foundation, Generalist/Specialist, Strategic Adviser Storytelling is one of the hottest communications skills. But there’s a particular type of story that needs far more attention than it currently gets...your corporate story.   Your corporate story conveys the heartbeat or DNA of your organization: in essence who you are, where you’re going, and how you’ll get there. It’s the most important story you can tell because it needs to unite people and anchor everything they say and do.   Your corporate story needs to be incredibly simple because people need to get, buy, share and, ultimately, live it. Unfortunately, it’s also notoriously hard to craft for two reasons:   The need to work with Executives, analysts, and strategists, understand their often complex thinking, add to the discussion, and demonstrate your value. The need to balance the sheer number of stakeholders, viewpoints, and vested interests involved. Speakers: Zora Artis & Wayne Aspland, The Content Factory Read more

Recorded: June 2021 Career Roadmap: Foundation, Generalist/Specialist What’s an organization? Look up the dictionary and you’ll find it’s simply an organized group of people working to achieve a common goal or purpose. And, what’s a team? Well, it’s basically the same thing.   That’s easy enough. But, here’s the issue. If that’s the definition, then most businesses in the world today don’t come close to being real organizations or teams. Research has shown over many years that... People simply don’t understand or buy into the common goal, strategy, or purpose of the organization they work for Generally speaking, leaders aren’t helping them. In fact, many don’t even realize there’s a problem And many communication professionals are reporting that they feel ill-equipped to turn this problem around. But turn this around we must and, more importantly, we can. In fact, building shared understanding and alignment is possibly the biggest opportunity the communication team has to really impact the bottom line and sustainability of the organization.   Speakers: Zora Artis & Wayne Aspland, The Content Factory Read more

Recorded: September 2021 Career Roadmap: Foundation, Generalist/Specialist, Strategic Adviser, Business Leader With remote and hybrid work here to stay, internal communicators must continue to find new and novel ways to keep employees engaged and informed virtually. Join us for “The Modern Intranet 101” and see how a modern intranet: Centralizes critical top-down internal communications Shapes culture and drive employee engagement with an engaging and an easy-to-use interface. Creates a virtual watercooler to unify employees Enables quick and personalized communications with no reliance on IT Speakers: Ian Freiberg and Jamie Yan Read more

Recorded: September 2021 Career Roadmap: Foundation, Generalist/Specialist Last year, Palo Alto Networks, Box, Splunk, Uber and Zoom announced the launch of the FLEXWORK coalition – a platform where business leaders come together to ideate, share insights and reflect on how to accelerate the development of a new employee-centric work experience. In this webinar, Lindsey Sanford, Chief of Staff, People Team at Palo Alto Networks, and Matt Frost, Organizational Wellbeing Director at Gallagher, will discuss the learnings to date.  What are the biggest opportunities and challenges that have emerged from talking to hundreds of HR and communication leaders over the past few months?  As the world returns to ‘normal’, how can we capitalise on those essential lockdown learnings to help leaders think differently about the way they manage their teams?  What ideas have been trialled – and what are the outcomes? Three Session Takeaways:  Find out how some of the world’s most progressive employers are rethinking their practices and policies to create a more employee-centric work experience Understand the new expectations of leaders, and how you can help them shift their mindset? This is a real opportunity for expert communicators to shine – don’t miss out! Speakers: Lindsey Sanford & Matt Frost, Palo Alto Networks Read more