This episode features an interview with Aniisu K. Verghese, Founder of Intraskope, a boutique internal communications and personal branding consultancy serving global markets. In this episode, Shawn and Aniisu discuss inclusive internal communications, strategies for building organizational trust, and how AI is streamlining employee experience.

When your team is collaborating in Slack, but managing projects in another tool, context can get lost and progress slows. With Slack lists, you can capture, visualize, and stay aligned on tasks where you’re already working.

As you start planning for the next quarter, you might find that your team’s ideas and goals are scattered across channels, docs, and spreadsheets. With Slack lists, you can create a straightforward catalog of planned work, improve visibility across teams, and discuss priorities where you’re already working – in Slack! LEARN MORE: hhttps://slack.com/help/articles/27660660362131-Slack-lists--Plan-work-for-the-next-quarter.

We know how critical it is to find the email you’re looking for quickly, so we just shipped significant improvements to search. We’re surfacing more relevant search results and you can filter results by attachment — like PDF, images, and more. You can also select emails in the search results and take action on them. To make the searching easier, you’ll see a list of recent searches before you even start typing in the field.

When you receive a request in Slack and have to manage it in another tool, tracking the task can feel tedious and information can go missing. With Slack lists, you can simplify the collection process, quickly triage submissions, and discuss requests where everyone who needs to see them can — right in Slack!

Operations is a critical role within agencies today. But beyond the day-to-day, there’s a big opportunity to leverage this role as strategic driver of growth and efficiency. How can you develop both yourself as a leader and your agency to deliver better results? In this episode, Ryan McNamara, Head of Operations for Rise at Seven, highlights 3 key areas that every ops director should focus on: Financial rigor - what metrics you should be looking at and how often, to help you make strategic decisions.