Welcome to the June 2024 WST Newsletter
Welcome to the June 2024 edition of the Work Smarter Together Newsletter – ‘Time for work’. In this newsletter we asked colleagues from across UCD to reflect on how they create and manage the...
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Welcome to the December 2023 WST Newsletter
Welcome to the December edition of the Work Smarter Together Newsletter – ‘One thing to know about…. In 2024’. In this newsletter we asked colleagues from across UCD to tell you a little bit...
Welcome to the September 2023 WST Newsletter
Welcome to the September edition of the Work Smarter Together Newsletter – ‘the ecology of a project’. This newsletter aims to give you an insight into what it takes to get cross functional projects...
Welcome to the June 2023 newsletter
Welcome to the Summer edition of UCD’s Work Smarter Together Newsletter – ‘A day in the life’. A key aspect of WST is about recognising and celebrating the achievements of our colleagues. We thought,...
Welcome to the December 2022 newsletter
Welcome to my first newsletter as the Director of Agile! I am four weeks into the new job as I am writing this – what an apt time for a newsletter all about change....
Welcome to the WST September Newsletter
The year has begun! My son was conferred three weeks ago, teaching started two weeks ago, Orientation was last week, and on this first Monday of their new lives, the campus is full of...
Welcome to the May 2022 Newsletter and this ever-changing world of ours.
As I look out on the early summer… oops, I’m in the office and my room has no windows, just a skylight… as I remember just walking through the drifts of blossoms billowing across...
Welcome to the November newsletter
By Michael Sinnott, Director of UCD Agile Happy November newsletter! As I write, the pink tinged clouds of a magical November dawn are fading into the soft greys of reality and the significance of...
Welcome to the August 2021 Newsletter
By Michael Sinnott, Director, UCD Agile There is a fog out my window this morning and the church I can usually see in sharp profile is just a grey shape looming in the grey. ...
Welcome to the May Newsletter
By Michael Sinnott, Director of UCD Agile Welcome to the May 2021 newsletter. The sky is bright, the birds are singing, there’s a whiff of vaccines in the air… there is more hope around,...
Welcome to the November Newsletter
By Michael Sinnott, Director of Agile Welcome to our November slice of UCD life – tales from the ‘collaboration and creativity’ front. The autumnal mists are fading into winter evenings, thoughts of Christmas lights...
Welcome to the August Newsletter
By Michael Sinnott, Director of Agile Welcome to the WST newsletter and month six of ‘is this really the new normal?’ If blistering summer sunshine usually means students are sitting exams somewhere (not this...
Welcome to the May 2020 Newsletter
Welcome to Week 11 in the Big Brother House… sorry, my bedroom… rather, my home office… eh, my remote working facility. We are in the ‘new normal’ now, though what an unfamiliar, unpredictable and...
Welcome to the March 2020 Newsletter
What times we live in! In March last year four hundred colleagues gathered at Work Smarter Together 2019, our biennial showcase and celebration of the dedication and commitment that is a core strength of...
Welcome to the November 2019 Newsletter
Welcome to our November Newsletter. There is never a time of the year when there is not an impending large volume, high effort, University-wide event just around the corner… and so we have end...
Welcome to the August 2019 Newsletter
As the rising winds of autumn dry the last puddles of summer, as the distant agony of CAO waitees becomes the ecstatic onslaught of eager first years, and as the bright lights of a...
Welcome to the May 2019 Newsletter
The sunshine of May is shining on what has suddenly become an eerily quiet(er) campus since the exams finished, though behind the scenes a huge amount of work is underway in grading and exams...
Welcome to the December 2018 Newsletter
By Michael Sinnott, Director of Agile Welcome to the December 2018 WST newsletter and all the very best for the holiday seasons ahead. Time flies and we find ourselves about to enter the last...
Welcome to the August 2018 WST Newsletter
By Michael Sinnott, Director of Agile August greetings from the Work Smarter Together Community of Practice. This is our 5th newsletter since their start in June 2017. We have news from the WST Summer School in...
Welcome to the June WST newsletter
By Michael Sinnott, Director of Agile Welcome to the June 2018 WST newsletter – lots of content keeping you up to date on some of what has been happening in the UCD ‘creativity and...