# Learning & Development

The latest updates, stories, ideas and guides from the Epoch team on all things employee experience.

**The Ultimate Guide to Planning a Company Onsite**  
Guide to planning company onsite events that boost team collaboration, align goals, and foster engagement in today’s remote and hybrid workplaces.  
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**Nurturing Culture as you Grow**  
Here are some key strategies to ensure that your company's culture remains strong in every department, no matter how large your team becomes.  
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**Making Meetings More Inclusive**  
7 Tips on how you can make your meetings more inclusive and productive.  
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**Prioritizing Mental Health in the Workplace**  
Explore the impact of mental health in the workplace and discover strategies for a healthier, more productive work environment.  
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**Tips for Hosting Successful Networking Events**  
Learn how to host the most impactful networking events.  
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**Internal Communications 📣**  
Learn best practices for internal communications and how Epoch can support your announcements, newsletters, reports, policy updates, and more.  
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**Mastering the All-Hands Experience: Strategies for Enhanced Engagement**  
All-hands meetings are important for the success of a company. They are about creating a meaningful experience that leaves a lasting impression.  
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**How to Have Effective Organizational Communication**  
How to develop effective organizational communication within your organization.  
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**The Importance of Employee Recognition**  
Employee recognition is essential for every company. Employees who feel valued and appreciated are more engaged, productive, and motivated.  
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**How to Successfully Onboard Employees 🧑‍💼**  
Onboarding is the process of integrating new employees into an organization and ensuring that they have the necessary knowledge, skills, and tools.  
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**5 Steps to Creating Successful Company Offsites**  
These 5 steps will help you stay organized for your next in-person company offsite.  
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**How to Support Your Company’s Employee Experience in Times of Uncertainty**  
In times of uncertainty, it’s important that your company’s employees feel secure in their roles. To do this, focus on the Employee Experience.  
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**Calendaring for Enterprises 🗓**  
Calendaring for hundreds or thousands of employees can become very complicated. This article details some common problems that occur when calendaring.  
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**8 People & Culture Books to Read Over the Holidays 📚**  
8 employee experience book recommendations that you can read over the holiday break.  
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**Why You Need an Employee Experience Platform by Jan 1 📈**  
Why you need a employee experience platform at the start of the year.  
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**Return to Office with Epoch 💼**  
Learn how Epoch can help host events and in-person gatherings to influence employees to return to office.  
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**Epoch for Slack 💙**  
Combining Epoch and Slack to provides a simple way to communicate and promote events to your workforce.  
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**Successful Slack Promotions 📣**  
Learn how to promote your events successfully with Slack messages.  
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**Event Communications 📆**  
How to improve event communications to increase attendance rate.  
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**How L&D Will Impact The Future Of Work 🏢**  
The importance of learning & development and how it will impact the future of work.  
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**The New Art of Hybrid Gathering 🏠**  
The article contains tips, and tricks and expands on the concept of hybrid meetings.  
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**International Pronouns Day 🏳️‍🌈**  
International Pronouns Day and how you can celebrate it.  
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**Learnings from Epoch's EX Happy Hour in San Francisco 📝**  
Topics of discussion included managing employee engagement, RTO, and increasing culture and connection.  
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**Are Micro-credentials the Future of Work? 🔬**  
Micro-credentials provide professionals with skills or knowledge that help them level up at work.  
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**Increasing Engagement in Asynchronous Learning Programs 📝**  
With the pandemic taking its toll on the workplace, one of the struggles is trying to increase employee engagement with asynchronous learning programs.  
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**Make Learning a Part of Everyday Work**  
Talk about the importance of learning with your team, schedule learning tasks and time into the daily routine, share what you’ve learned, and more.  
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**Learning is Everything 🍎**  
Continuous learning in the workplace is a great way to enrich your employees’ work experience and improve their productivity and performance.  
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**Learning Topics & Themes for Employees ⭐️**  
It is extremely important to ensure that your workplace is a positive and uplifting environment. One way to do so is to acknowledge common Learning and Development topics and themes that you can bring into your own team.  
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**Learning & Development: The Recipe for Success ⭐️**  
To help with the challenge of creating successful and impactful Learning & Development programs every time, we have gathered a list of the main ingredients for the L&D recipe for success!  
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**6 Learning and Development Trends for 2022**  
This past year in 2021, we have seen how Learning and Development (L&D) programming has had to continue to adapt to an ever-changing work environment. The best way to get ahead is to look at the projected trends for this year and make any adjustments to your current programming as needed.  
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