Category: Newsletter March 2020
By Caroline Mangan, UCD Global The intersection between climate change and international education is becoming an increasingly important area of discussion. Indeed, the UCD Strategy 2020-2024 Rising to the Future identifies sustainability as its first...
By Bernadeta Kieromin, UCD Agile We all know good ideas come along all the time in all shapes and sizes and help people solve problems in daily work. A Work Smarter Together Smart Card...
By Michael Sinnott, UCD Agile At a higher education conference last summer I came across a change management framework developed by a group called Prosci (https://www.prosci.com/). Prosci stood out because so many of the...
By Olga Murdoch, UCD Agile Working remotely is new to most of us and it is fair to say we are all still finding our feet. Over the past few days, I spoke to...
By Claire Nolan, School of Information and Communication Studies The Community of Practice for School Managers is continuing to contact each other, to discuss the developing challenges in the unique circumstances UCD now finds...
By Aidan McElwaine, UCD Research URMAN (UCD Research Managers and Administrators Network) is a Community of Practice which was established in UCD in 2013. Our objectives include providing a forum to share knowledge and best...
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...
By Bernadeta Kieromin, UCD Agile Becoming a Green Belt (GB) is an opportunity to gain valuable tools and experience to successfully lead and complete improvement projects. Last year we had 10 very impressive projects...
By Bernadeta Kieromin, UCD Agile Work Smarter Together February events always focus on UCD community projects and stories and this year event, was no exception. We met in Moore Auditorium in O’Brien Centre for...
By Amy McDonald, UCD Agile On October 22 2019, as part of the Unified Support Model (USM) rollout, we ran an Rapid Improvement Event focused on the implementation of the Continuation & Readmission Policy....
By Jeremy Britton, UCD Agile Project Management is a term very much in the zeitgeist right now. Whether you hold the title of Project Manager or not, there is a growing expectation on people...