Name: 10 ways to replace ineffective meetings with Slack
Start: 2023-08-29T03:02:00Z
End: 2023-08-29T03:02:50.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
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Slack is the AI-powered platform for work. Slack brings conversations, collaboration, and automation together with trusted AI, right where you're already working. Help your teams stay in the flow of work, speed up processes, and deliver big results, from the back office to the road, with customer data and insights at their fingertips.

Information overload kills productivity.

Slack AI is an intuitive AI experience embedded in your workspace that helps you search, summarize and find answers faster. You don’t need to become a prompt engineer to harness the power of AI; in Slack, with one-click solutions, it’s easy for anyone to take advantage of AI.

Join this webinar to learn more and see our AI in action. You’ll learn how it can empower your employees with trusted AI in Slack—where the flow of work already happens—so they can reach their most productive potential.

Work smarter and faster with trusted AI in Slack

Information overload kills productivity.

Slack AI is an intuitive AI experience embedded in your workspace that helps you search, summarize and find answers faster. You don’t need to become a prompt engineer to harness the power of AI; in Slack, with one-click solutions, it’s easy for anyone to take advantage of AI.

Join this upcoming webinar to learn more and see our AI in action. You’ll learn how it can empower your employees with trusted AI in Slack—where the flow of work already happens—so they can reach their most productive potential.

While workers today have more workplace flexibility than ever before, they're also facing productivity challenges due to fragmented experiences across a multitude of tools. This has led to almost 9 in 10 organisations citing digital experience as one of their top five business priorities, in areas such as workflow management and predictive analytics.

In this webinar, you’ll hear from experts from Salesforce and TechTarget’s Enterprise Strategy Group on the different workstyles in ANZ, the productivity challenges that ANZ workers are facing, and how Slack can help to bring teams together and supercharge productivity.

Join us in this session to learn about:
• Slack's workplace research on employee expectations in ANZ regarding work flexibility and why that matters for for productivity for different personalities.  
• How GenAI is being used to improve digital experiences
• How do you measure productivity? Is there a disconnect between employers and employees on what those measures are?
• What sorts of challenges local businesses are experiencing in the world of work and how Slack helps address these

Unlocking Productivity in a New World of Work: ANZ Edition

While workers today have more workplace flexibility than ever before, they're also facing productivity challenges due to fragmented experiences across a multitude of tools. This has led to almost 9 in 10 organizations citing digital experience as one of their top five business priorities, in areas such as workflow management and predictive analytics. 

In this webinar, you’ll hear from experts from Salesforce and TechTarget’s Enterprise Strategy Group on the different workstyles in ASEAN, the productivity challenges that workers are facing in the region, and how Slack can help to bring teams together and improve productivity.

Join us in this session to learn about:
• Slack’s workplace research on employee expectations in ASEAN regarding work flexibility and why that matters for productivity for different personalities
• How do you measure productivity? Is there a disconnect between employers and employees on what those measures are?
• How CX teams are grappling with a multitude of tools from CRM systems to customer facing portals to serve and engage customers
• How Slack is helping to address the productivity challenges of developers

Unlocking Productivity in a New World of Work: ASEAN Edition

Today, the world of work is once again at an inflection point. Amid economic headwinds and tighter constraints, every leader is searching for ways to make their organisation more productive.

Productivity matters, whether you’re a growing start-up or a Fortune 100 company. As exciting new technologies like generative AI hit the market, organisations need to empower their teams to save time and focus on strategic work that allows their expertise to shine and moves the business forwards.

Watch now to learn how top companies are approaching productivity, automation and flexibility in the era of modern work.

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How do you spend your time at work and what is it costing you? Slack’s Workforce Lab, based on survey responses from more than 10,000 desk workers around the globe, uncovers new findings on how to balance your workday to maximize productivity and strengthen your well-being and satisfaction.

Things you’ll learn:
-The surprising connection between after-hours work and productivity (it’s probably not what you think!)
-What the data shows around taking breaks during the workday
-The ideal amount of focus time versus meeting time
-How to structure your workday to take advantage of “prime productivity hours”
-How AI tools can help

Speakers: 
Lucas Puente, Senior Director of Survey Science and Quantitative Research, Slack  
Christina Janzer, Sr. VP, Research and Analytics and Head of Workforce Lab, Slack

New research uncovers the secret to a productive workday

Business teams are increasingly looking to IT as strategic partners to co-create processes and tools that will drive growth amid uncertainty.

How can you best partner with your stakeholders to unlock productivity while increasing ROI on your tech stack?

Hear how the Salesforce IT team has leveraged the Slack platform to automate processes, integrate systems and build custom apps to drive productivity for our business partners.

Things you’ll learn:
- How to build great Slack experiences
- How to design automations that drive productivity and cost savings
- How to incorporate stakeholders in your design process

Speakers: 
Kelsey Collins, Product Marketing Manager, Slack   
Robbie Birbeck, Sr. Director, Engineering Manager, Salesforce 
Sarah Madden, Product Manager, Salesforce

Build on Slack to supercharge IT

Sales teams today are under pressure to drive revenue growth while meeting ever-rising customer expectations. But more often, their time is spent on administrative tasks that are hindered by siloed tools and data. In fact, reps spend only 28% of their week on selling activities. That’s valuable time that could be spent engaging with customers.

Enter the new Slack solution for sales. Built specifically for sales teams to boost productivity and lessen the manual task load, it seamlessly integrates Sales Cloud and Slack to deliver real-time access to vital Salesforce data in the flow of work. Now you can automate non-selling tasks, drive efficient processes at scale with AI-ready workflows, and empower teams to come together to close deals faster, all in one place.

Join us to see a live demo and to learn more about how this new solution can transform the way your sales teams work together and win, all in Slack, all the time.

Things you’ll learn:
-Accelerate sales and eliminate busywork by harnessing automation with AI-ready workflows and scalable best practices available out of the box
-Effortlessly update your CRM data and get instant account updates from anywhere
-Boost individual and team performance with a complete picture of your business in Slack

Meet Slack Sales Elevate: Your new sales productivity game changer

How can you unlock the power of automation for every employee at your organization—not just those with technical backgrounds? 

At Slack, we launched a low-code platform that empowers everyone to create workflows for their own processes. Instead of building out single-purpose integrations, our platform allows developers, admins and users to build together using a shared set of automation tools.

Empower your business with a low-code automation platform

Learn more about the integration and automation capabilities of the Slack and Salesforce platforms, bringing people and systems together in one place Slack is a centralized engagement layer for all your tools and applications, and Salesforce clouds are powerful systems of record that enable your most critical business processes. 

Watch this webinar to learn more about how to use Slack and the Salesforce Platform toolkit—including new Salesforce for Slack apps, Salesforce Flow and the upcoming Apex SDK for Slack—to automate end-to-end processes, bringing all your systems and people together in one place, your digital HQ.

Things you’ll learn:
-Why you should build solutions that combine the power of Salesforce Platform and Slack
-How to get started with our newest offerings: Salesforce for Slack apps, Flow for Slack and the new Apex SDK
-Best practices and real-life examples from Slack-certified experts at IBM

Our speakers: 
Kelsey Collins, Product Marekting maanger, Slack 
Jarrod Kingston, Solution Engineering Leader, IBM
Phil Weinmeister, Head of Product, IBM

Build the way you want with Slack and Salesforce Platforms

According to Slack’s latest State of Work research, people who use AI are 90% more likely to report greater productivity. So why are only 27% of companies using AI tools?

By automating repetitive tasks and freeing up time for more strategic, creative work, generative AI can help your company ramp up its productivity and do more with less. Imagine vanquishing writer’s block, creating smoother pathways for customers to get the support they need, auditing code or generating personalized email sequences that will boost your sales conversion rates. The opportunities are endless.

But in order for generative AI to truly work for you, it needs to start with trust and transparency. Join us to learn how to navigate this new era of generative AI technology for your business. You’ll hear from industry experts, including a Forrester analyst and technology leaders at Slack and Salesforce.

Things you’ll learn:
-The latest research to help businesses navigate the risks and rewards of generative AI
-Guidelines to approach the development and use of trusted generative AI
-Practical examples of how generative AI, including Slack GPT and Einstein GPT, can transform how teams work

Explore the future of productivity in ASEAN, powered by generative AI

Explore the future of productivity in ANZ, powered by generative AI

Explore the future of productivity in India, powered by generative AI

The world of work is once again at an inflection point. Amid economic headwinds and tighter constraints, every leader is searching for ways to make their organisation more productive. As exciting new technologies like generative AI hit the market, it’s clear the global work experiment that began in 2020 isn’t over—in fact, it may be just beginning.

To better understand the current state of work, Slack partnered with Qualtrics on a survey of more than 18,000 desk workers across industries around the globe. In this report, we share the most interesting insights we discovered in the survey. And we offer suggestions for how leaders can make work simpler, more pleasant and more productive—no matter how the landscape moves underfoot. Ready to unlock more productivity within your organisation? Download the 2023 State of Work report today for critical insights, data and best practices. 

You will learn about:
-The productivity paradox – the disconnect between leaders and teams on how to measure productivity
-The most common use cases of AI and automation in organisations
-The different paths you can take towards productive collaboration

Speakers: 
Lucas Puente, Senior Director, Survey Science and Quantitative Research, Slack               
Sateja Parulekar, VP, Product Marketing, Slack       
Prashanth Chandrasekar, CEO, Stack Overflow

State of Work 2023: Boost productivity with AI & automation

Pull back the curtain and see how our internal teams harness Slack and Salesforce Sales Cloud over the entire lifecycle of a sales deal

If you’re in sales, you know that every customer has different needs, wants and motivators. Uncovering those needs through good communication is essential to building empathetic relationships, and those relationships are the key to successful sales partnerships. Luckily, helping people connect efficiently is what Slack does best.

Great connections are only half the battle; they can break down if your tools and data are scattered. And with the recent shift in economic conditions, companies everywhere are looking for ways to meet their revenue commitments without adding headcount. To avoid wasting time and money, our reps depend on the combined power of Slack and Salesforce’s Sales Cloud to scale the impact of their sales team while speeding up deal cycles.

In this webinar, learn how to strategize in channels, bring customers inside the workspace with Slack Connect, and use a simple series of workflows and automations to close deals. By giving reps more customer-facing time and harnessing the power of the extended sales team, Slack can help you achieve your targets.

Things you’ll learn:
1. Winning more deals as a team
2. Boosting individual rep productivity
3. Scaling faster with automations and workflows that connect Salesforce and Slack
4. Encouraging team selling with account channels
5. Building deeper, differentiated partnerships with customers using Slack Connect
6. Bringing deal context into the flow of work with the Sales Cloud for Slack app

The life of a deal: How we run sales with Slack

Learn how IT teams leverage Slack to break down information silos, work asynchronously, and automate routine tasks to free up time for strategic work

The way the world works has drastically changed and the technology and teams that enable this new way of working have never been more visible or essential. IT teams across companies of every size and every industry are responsible for meeting the challenge of this shift head on, but one question remains. How do we make this work from anywhere world more enjoyable and productive with less wasted effort?

In this webinar, Sean Storer, Slack’s senior solutions marketing manager for IT, will introduce the concept of a digital HQ and walk through the benefits this model has for IT teams. After a brief introduction to the concept of a digital HQ, you’ll hear real-world examples from a panel of IT leaders on how they use Slack as their digital HQ and the positive impacts they’re seeing across their teams and companies.

Things you’ll learn:
1. The key elements of a digital HQ and their benefits for IT teams
2. How a digital HQ can improve IT productivity and improve employee experience across an organization
3. Real world examples of how IT teams are benefitting from implementing Slack as their digital HQ

How IT teams create company-wide value by enabling a digital HQ

How many hours did you spend in meetings last week? If you feel like your schedule is increasingly packed, you’re not alone: the average volume of meetings per week is up 70% since February 2020.*

It’s time to ditch inefficient meetings—you know the ones. In this webinar, we’ll share how you can replace those meetings with flexible alternatives like channels, huddles, clips and workflows.

*Reclaim.ai, Productivity Trends Report, 2021

Things you’ll learn:
-Learn new ways to use Slack to drive asynchronous and synchronous productivity
-Understand the value of creating flexibility for you and your teams
-Identify an ineffective meeting, and camce; it

Speakers: 
Annie Keller, Sr. Experience Consultant, Slack
Elaine Schwartz, Experience Architect, Slack
Tamara Jensen, Principal Technical Product Manager, T-Mobile

10 ways to replace ineffective meetings with Slack

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