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In June 2023, we themed our newsletter around the idea of ‘A Day in the Life’. We asked some of our colleagues to complete a questionnaire about their day and experiences working in UCD. ...
Category: Announcements
How will AI shape my future in UCD? – October Roundtable
We are delighted to invite you to our upcoming WST event this October 26 from 2pm – 3:30pm on campus. The event format is an open roundtable discussion with the ever popular social and...
Join the WST Planning Group
Join the WST Gang! WST Community of Practice is looking for new voices to help plan our annual programme. WST emerged from a shared experience of how UCD folks come together to use their...
WST March 2023 Closing Keynote Speaker – Justin Caffrey
We are delighted to confirm that Justin Caffrey will be our closing keynote speaker for WST March 23 2023 “Resilience and Psychological Safety: When vulnerability becomes vital.” Closing our exciting day of events...
WST March 23 Opening Keynote Speaker – Dr Lollie Mancey
We are delighted to confirm that Dr. Lollie Mancey of the Innovation Academy will be our opening keynote speaker for WST March 23 2023. “Be You – Because everyone else is taken” How to...
WST March 2023 is coming
SAVE THE DATE- WST: Celebrating Us Join us for ‘Celebrating Us’ on Thursday, March 23, 2023 in The Village Auditorium. This March 23, we are aiming to reconnect our colleagues with each other and...
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....
Save the Date – WST March event
We are pleased to announce the date and theme of our upcoming March biennial Work Smarter Together event Thursday, March 23, 2023 With our upcoming biennial event in March, we are aiming to reconnect...
Upcoming October training and events with WST
Join us for some of our upcoming training and events over the next few weeks. October 27: 12pm – Think like an entrepreneur: Getting comfortable with experimenting, taking risks and finding alternative paths to success...
Upcoming Change Management Training
We are offering two upcoming sessions on Change Manangement techniques through the booking centre: October 25 – Change Management Employee Orientation Program In person training on campus Organisations are facing pressures to change faster...
Save the Date – WST October is coming
WST October: Think like an entrepreneur: Use an Entrepreneurial Mindset to Find Success and Fulfillment at Work Join us on October 27 for this short session with Erin Shrimpton, organisational psychologist and behavioural change...
WST Summer School 2022 closed
Booking is now closed for 2022’s Work Smarter Together Summer School which tool place from July 12 – 14 2022. Session recordings, links and information links to follow. This year were excited to engage...
WST Summer School 2022: Programme Announced
Booking is now open for this year’s Work Smarter Together Summer School taking place on July 12 – 14 2022. For full details of sessions and booking links for each session follow this link....
Lean HE Ireland: The November 2021 Focus Sessions
Following two successful events in March and June 2021, we’re delighted to announce the next Lean HE Ireland Network event in November. For an overview of the Lean HE Ireland Network and a recap...
WST October event on Hybrid Working
Join us on Wednesday 20th October from 11.00am-12.30pm for our Work Smarter Together October event – our theme is Hybrid Working. We are all now embarking on the next phase of life and looking...
Distributed Office (DO) training sessions
We’re excited about our new set of Distributed Office (DO) training offerings, starting in October. This includes our new ‘DO: Lean’ series, along with the popular DO: Planning and Tracking. This training is open...
Upcoming Lean training
We’ve added a new round of online Yellow Belt and Lean Practitioner training in September, check out the details below. Places on the Yellow Belt can be booked via the InfoHub Booking Centre, and...
Distributed Office training survey results
Thank you to everyone who took the time to complete our recent Distributed Office training survey! Over the past few months, we ran a series of Distributed Office (DO) offerings which originated from the...
New training offerings
Our Spring training programme is up and running. We’re developing new Distributed Office sessions and will have more news on these shortly – keep an eye on this page for updates. In the meantime,...
Your WST21 Recap
What a great week at WST21! A huge thank you to everyone who participated – with both presentations and posters – a great example of ‘working smart while being apart’. If you missed any...