STORIES & SOLUTIONS FOR THE MODERN BUSINESS USER

Escape rooms have gained immense popularity as an interactive and thrilling form of entertainment. They test participants' problem-solving skills, teamwork, and ability to think under pressure. Institutions moving to Workday Student may find themselves in a similar situation: needing to break free from legacy systems to deliver a modern student experience, limited collaboration between campuses and departments, and challenge with change to adopt new ways of working.

Workday Extend is a technology platform that enables customers to rapidly build and deploy applications that seamlessly extend their existing Workday applications and unlock new business value. Organizations can leverage Workday technology frameworks like security, object data store, business processes, orchestrations, integrations, and reporting to build new functionality for their unique business needs. Apps developed with Workday Extend are accessed from a Workday user's home screen, dashboard, or related actions—retaining the consistent, familiar user experience that comes with Workday.

Have you found yourself in a position where you are expected to lead team members through an important change initiative? Do you feel like you’re lost and don’t know the first thing about leading your team through transformation? You aren’t alone. One of the main reasons leaders resist change is because they lack confidence in their ability to manage the people side of change. 

Last week, more than 20,000+ human resources leaders and professionals from around the globe gathered for the 75th Annual SHRM conference in Las Vegas.  This year’s theme, Drive Change, could not be more appropriate for all of the transformations that have occurred in the workplace over the past 75 years, three years, or even the past six months (ChatGPT - we see you.)  

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! 

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!