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...
Monthly Archive: May 2019
Best Practice Approaches to Conferencing
By Anne Hallinan, UCD School of Music This handy 2 page template (in pdf format) outlines the steps in organising a conference from beginning to end and is based on the Six Sigma five...
Delegated Authority Student Decisions Project
By Iseult Ó Síocháin, UCD Registry When I took up a secondment as Deputy Director of Assessment in September 2017, it was clear that there would be a steep learning curve to familiarise myself...
WST Summer School 16th, 17th and 18th July 2019
We couldn’t wait to share the good news: The Work Smarter Together Summer School is back! Our annual WST Summer School event is taking place here at UCD Belfield campus on 16th, 17th and...
UCD Mass Spectrometry Community of Practice #WST2019
By Dr Jimmy Muldoon, School of Chemistry On March 13th recently formed UCD Mass Spectrometry Community of Practice held a pre-event seminar as part of UCD’s Work Smarter Together event. The Mass Spec Cop...
School Managers Community of Practice #WST 2019
By Claire Nolan, School of Information and Communication Studies The Work Smarter Together 2019 event took place on the 14th of March, and the School Managers Community of Practice were honoured to take part....
WST 2019 survey analysis
By Michael Sinnott, Director of Agile We got a great response to the WST 2019 survey we ran the week after our March event. The infographic shows the high level stats, all of which...
Newly awarded Green Belts
By Bernadeta Kieromin, Agile Coordinator Congratulation to our newly awarded Green Belts! In April 2018, seven new exciting Green Belts were presented their QQI parchments by Professor Mark Rogers. Green Belt Awardees with Mark...
Agile upcoming training
By Bernadeta Kieromin, Agile Coordinator Choose the training that suits you: Yellow Belt Yellow Belt (YB) training provides the participants with knowledge of Lean so you can be an effective members of improvement teams,...
Remit mapping
By Michael Sinnott, Director of Agile The idea at the heart of remit mapping is that clarity of purpose helps individuals and teams do good work and be a good place to work, so...
WST USM Rollout So Far– May 2019
By Jeremy Britton and Amy McDonald Since our last update, a lot has happened in the world of the Unified Support Model. Phase 1 of the rollout ended in January when we completed the...
What is a WHY Statement and why should you care?
By Jeremy Britton and Amy McDonald What is a WHY? Every team in UCD knows WHAT they do. They are fully aware of their day-to-day tasks and what’s required to carry them out. In...