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 #HybridWork, 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 #Ally.io for #ObjectiveManagement / #Goal Management to #Microsoft 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, #Employee Connection, and #Employee Networking remain essential areas of focus during a time of considerable workforce change. Join Richard Harbridge, a Microsoft MVP and internationally recognized expert on #Microsoft365 and Asif Rehmani, MVP, a Microsoft MVP and expert on #Adoption and #Learning, as they share insight on how to better plan for, prepare for and benefit from the #Future Of Employee Management.

1. The Future of Employee
Management
Richard Harbridge
2toLead Chief Technology
Officer & Microsoft MVP
and how to prepare today
Asif Rehmani
VisualSP Founder &
Microsoft MVP
Thu., May 5, 2022 3:00 PM (EST)
Session 3

2. How has employee management experience
changed and why does it matter?
Question 1
What holds the future back for employee
experience and managers today?
Question 2
What are important new management approaches or
improvements, and what is driving them?
Question 3
Lightning round where we answer your questions!
Your Questions

3. Hi, I’m Asif Rehmani
Founder and CEO of VisualSP, Asif is
very focused on digital adoption and
the digital transformation of
organizations. Simply stated, focusing
on how you get the best use out of the
technologies in your organization and
help your employees get the best
experience along the way.

4. My Twitter is @rharbridge, I’m super friendly & proud to work at 2tolead.
Richard Harbridge
2toLead Chief
Technology Officer &
Microsoft MVP
Speaker & Author
Super Friendly

5. How has employee
management
experience changed and
why does it matter?
Question 1

6. You will love the way we work. Together. ™
Jacob Morgan in “The Employee Experience Advantage” suggests three environments that support and reinforce each other.
With the shift driven by Hybrid Work, it has pushed greater weight on cultural and technological environments.
The feeling employees
get working for your
organization
The actual spaces in
which employees
work
The tools
employees use to
get their jobs done

7. You will love the way we work. Together. ™
The way we see digital employee experience at 2toLead is based on 3 primary areas of investment.

8. You will love the way we work. Together. ™
This is especially true when it comes to digital skills as hybrid work and an accelerated shift in the
past few years has created a gap in experience and expectations on execution.
79% of CEOs worldwide
are concerned that a lack of essential skills in their
workforce is a barrier to future growth1
Meanwhile, employees only have 1% of their
workweek to focus on learning new skills2
1PwC CEO Survey, 2019
2Leading in Learning, Bersin by Deloitte

9. You will love the way we work. Together. ™
Hybrid work is here to stay and must be embraced, but employees are not all aligned on their
preferences, so we need to create the best experience possible regardless of where they work.
1Microsoft Work Trend Index: 2021 Annual Report

10. You will love the way we work. Together. ™
With the shift to remote work enablement managing work life balance has become a greater risk.

11. Hybrid and remote work has had a
tremendous impact on how we manage
and how employees experience
management. It can lead to a positive
change and be for the better.
Answer 1

12. What holds the future back for
employee experience and
managers today?
Question 2

13. You will love the way we work. Together. ™
How the roadmap is broken down into categories
Facilitate Governance & Responsibly Empower
Absorb complexity into management, align with policies, simplify compliance, security and performance.
Establish An Effective Foundation
Foundational and important work from strategy to architecture that is necessary for continued digital workplace success.
Migrate & Modernize
Move away from legacy systems into long-term, supported, and more integrated experiences.
Foster Collaboration, Connection & Engagement
Make it easy and efficient for employees to onboard, teams to work together, from anywhere, to gain insights on
what is important and feel included.
Improve Communication, Navigation & Search
Provide more effective ways to communicate, reduce noise, feel informed, engaged and get their core tasks done
with increased efficiency.

14. You will love the way we work. Together. ™
PHASE 1 - Modernize
0-6 months
PHASE 2 – Connect & Integrate
6-12 months
PHASE 3 – Intelligent & Automated
12-24 months
A summary of the initiatives planned over the next 24 months
Digital Workplace
Strategy & Roadmap
Modern Navigation
(Custom Header & Footer)
Employee Preboarding
Portal(s)
Migrate & Develop
Intranet Content
Establish Digital
Workplace Backlog
Intranet Site, Page &
Team Template Design
Intranet Governance
Design & Planning
Employee Networking &
Connection App (Release 1)
Foster Collaboration,
Connection & Engagement
Improve Communication,
Navigation & Search
Migrate
& Modernize
Establish An
Effective Foundation
Facilitate Governance
& Responsibly Empower
Teams Company
Communicator App
Employee Onboarding
Organization Portal(s)
Employee Onboarding
Departmental Site(s)
Digital Workplace
Directory (Release 1)
Digital Workplace
Directory (Release 2)
Employee Networking &
Connection App (Release 2)
Teams Company
Communicator App (Enhancements)
Targeted Search Experience
& Search Refiners
Intranet Navigation
& Search Design
Intranet Integration
& Solution Design
Intranet Content Design
& Migration Planning
Build Of Sites, Pages,
Teams & IA
Automating & Improving Onboarding,
Transfers & Offboarding Solution(s) (Release 1)
Bring The Intranet Into
Context Of Work (Topics)
Bring Knowledge To Users In The Context
Of Their Work (Topics Broader Rollout)
Enhanced Intranet
Insights (Release 1)
My Links, Alerts &
Subscriptions (Release 1)
Digital Center Of
Excellence (Release 1)
Digital Center Of
Excellence (Release 2)
Targeted Viva
Learning (Pilot)
Intranet Launch

15. Gaps in the digital employee
experience are not yet met by vendors
and customers. The wrong focus and
organizational requirements are not
being addressed.
Answer 2

16. What are important new
management approaches or
improvements, and what is
driving them?
Question 3

17. ESTIMATED COMPLEXITY
Employee Pre-
Onboarding Site
Employee Onboarding
Use a Pre-onboarding site to
welcome prospective or new
employees as soon as the job
offer has been accepted.
Connect and inform potential or
new hires on what to expect by
customizing pre-populated site
content and pages to fit the
needs of your organization.
Try It Yourself Today
Microsoft Solution Discover Another 40+ Solution Ideas In Our eBook

18. You will love the way we work. Together. ™
New experiences on the horizon

19. You will love the way we work. Together. ™

21. Remove Org
Fix persona
- Ask PM if group
manager is
updating

22. Remove Org
Fix persona
- Ask PM if group
manager is
updating

23. Remove Org
Fix persona
- Ask PM if group
manager is
updating

24. Leader insights homepage

26. Ways of working tracker: scorecard metrics

27. Wellbeing score across categories Distribution by wellbeing score and collaboration hours
Collaboration hours

28. You will love the way we work. Together. ™
By combining insights from surveys and employee pulse insights with data from how they work
digitally we can take more pro-active steps to improve focus on important topic areas.

29. You will love the way we work. Together. ™
New experiences on the horizon

31. You will love the way we work. Together. ™
Learning digital skills and adopting technology is much easier with capabilities like those powered
by VisualSP to provide just in time and in context learning and adoption assistance.

32. ESTIMATED COMPLEXITY
Grow Your
Skills App
Employee Networking & Connection
Grow Your Skills is an app for
employees to discover & contribute
to gig projects or volunteer
activities based on their interest
which will help them to acquire new
skills or master the ones that they
already have right inside teams.
Try It Yourself Today
Microsoft Solution Discover Another 40+ Solution Ideas In Our eBook

33. You will love the way we work. Together. ™
Goal management, objectives and key results (OKR), and connecting work to outcomes is a big
emphasis of investment for many organizations today that is having tremendous impact.
Ally.io accelerates organizational alignment from 40% to 90% in less than one year.
Taken from Ally’s 2021 Goal Management Report reviewing over 4,500 knowledge
workers in North America and the UK. Read the full report here.

34. You will love the way we work. Together. ™
Align work to corporate objectives

35. Answer 3
Management experiences need to
be more proactive, supportive and
intelligent. This should include
helping employees improve their
digital excellence and how they
align and get feedback.

36. Rapid-fire lightning
round where we answer
your questions!
Your Questions

37. M365Intranets.com
M365Sprawl.com
M365Campaigns.com
Explore 800+ Pages of
Free Expert Guidance…
M365Metrics.com
M365Resources.com
SharePointMigrations.com

38. Thank you!