STORIES & SOLUTIONS FOR THE MODERN BUSINESS USER

Live on Workday and wondering how you can get the most out of your platform? Here are four enhancements to take advantage of now.

Change has always been hard. But now, change has become a constant. Market disruptions, shifting consumer preferences, and technological advancements are pushing companies to evolve and adapt faster than ever before. This means the ability to lead your employees through change is paramount to success.

Modernizing systems and moving to the cloud is an increasing priority for organizations across industries. Gartner estimates that the majority of enterprises will use cloud platforms by 2028 to accelerate business objectives. Tableau Cloud is the latest SaaS offering from Tableau that allows organizations to scale their analytics programs without the restrictions of on-premises solutions, providing the ability to securely share data across departments and empower all users to make data-driven decisions.

Any change occurring within your organization, whether it involves deploying new technology, implementing new processes, or restructuring, will impact your people. Human resources (HR) leaders’ focus is all about people management, ensuring employees are supported, engaged, and equipped to adapt to organizational change.

There are a number of opinions on how you should think about Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) tools entering the workplace. Some refer to GenAI as an intern, others a mentor, and some sell it as a personal assistant (PA)! I looked at all three views and provided my take from a project manager’s perspective.

In this final blog of our three-part series about project managing your life, we will look at negotiation and how that correlates to project management fundamentals. This blog series has taken different aspects of everyday life, like hosting Christmas dinner and planning your child’s playdates, to show how project management fundamentals can make a difference in minimizing the stress. Below, we have outlined the types of negotiation and how to apply them with different people in your life. 

Throughout my years working in higher education, I have been fortunate to be a part of several graduation ceremonies. I love the celebration, joy, and especially hearing the journeys that students have experienced in achieving this milestone. Stories that are filled with unique and transformational experiences, with challenges and obstacles overcome, making plans, and then rewriting those plans, often several times over. In short, they are stories of triumph. With my background in student success, I pay particularly close attention to the support systems students mention, the guidance and advice they received, the planning entailed, and how they navigated their journey.

Organizations worldwide are executing aggressive business strategies to leverage technological advances to integrate and simplify business processes, move crucial data to more secure cloud-based solutions, upgrade digital capabilities, and unify transactions across their digital footprint. These large-scale transformations often require significant resources and as such, often attract the attention of the media, public, community activists, and watchdog groups.

Who’s heard of Danny Meyer?

No, he is not an organizational change management (OCM) scholar or world-class practitioner. He is a restauranteur, responsible for top restaurants such as Gramercy Tavern and nationwide favorite, Shake Shack.

The latest Workday release (2024R1) included changes for higher education institutions using Workday Student Recruiting and Admissions. These configuration changes allow an administrator to better organization application questions and have more control of what is collected from the student applicant.