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This is part two of a two-part blog series by Avaap Senior Consultant, Dr. Brandon Rogers, PMP, PMI-ACP. Part one looked at introducing the change curve and why it matters. 

This two-part blog series by Avaap Senior Consultant, Dr. Brandon Rogers, PMP, PMI-ACP, looks at change initiatives and the need to acknowledge and understand the emotional journey employees face before, during, and after any change initiative.

As your organization prepares for a Workday implementation project, you will need to begin assembling your implementation team. The implementation team will partner together to get your organization to go-live, so it is important to choose team members that understand the project and the business. Here are seven rock stars to have on your team to ensure a successful Workday deployment.

Studies show that millions of employees are feeling burned out, emotionally drained by work, and used up at the end of the day. What is the cause for employees’ deteriorating emotional state? Multiple change initiatives on top of day-to-day responsibilities is likely a key cause. 

On March 11th, Workday release 2023R1 was delivered to tenants. The new release includes over 300 new or enhanced features. To prepare for the release cycle, we asked our consultants to share their favorite Workday features and functionality that are most impactful to users. Last week we covered the core application and this time around, we asked our consultants about Workday Student. Take note of these time-saving features and put them on your radar for 2023! 

2023R1 is here! The new release has been announced in Workday Community and has more than 300 new or enhanced features. To prepare for the upcoming Workday release, let’s look back at Workday features and functionality that were most impactful to users. If you are not using all of these, you should be! 

During the pandemic, transit agencies played an essential role in ensuring the mobility of Americans. The focus was to keep critical operations running despite experiencing historically low utilization. As agencies plan for returning to pre-pandemic levels of travel and an influx of capital from federal aid, now is the time for transit associations to transform their operations and equip themselves for the future.

New ERP systems are the catalyst for growth and change but success is more than getting the technical implementation right. When Hinds Community College made the move to Workday, their chief technology officer said they would do one thing different if doing it over again: bring change management into the process earlier.

The month before the birth of my first child, a coworker shared a tweet with me where a couple leveraged Glow Baby app data to visualize the paternity leave experience in an augmented reality software. The Tableau nerd in me couldn’t resist, and I set out to collect and visualize my own paternity leave data in my preferred software, Tableau. 

The go-live date is a moment of great anticipation. It’s the final stretch of an implementation – a culmination of weeks, months and sometimes years of work – and a time that marks the difference between before and after in transformation initiatives. Even with careful planning, sometimes substantive changes impact the go-live date.