Join your peers and our experts for an engaged dialogue about personnel considerations and employee policies for fall reopening.
VIRTUAL TRAINING
Overview
Many colleges and universities are grappling with how best to handle personnel-related decisions in connection with fall semester plans. Human resources, finance, and administration professionals are constantly balancing employees’ fears and concerns about returning to campus with institutional obligations and liabilities. At the same time, these teams must also craft new policies that reflect current realities. Add in considerations around cross-training, reallocation of staff time, and support for managers, and it is quite a heavy lift.
This training will help you work through the many employee-related decisions you have to make by connecting you with peers to discuss, brainstorm, and share your best current thinking. You will hear from two experts about their plans and work in small groups to discover what your colleagues are doing to tackle questions around working in a hybrid in-person/remote environment, how to handle childcare challenges, and how to best support managers.
Who Should Attend
This training will benefit human resources, finance, and administration professionals. Institutional leaders who are serving on task forces or planning committees related to the fall 2020 reopening of campus may also benefit.
The Academic Impressions Online Learning Experience
Intentionally Designed
Online Learning
Our virtual trainings go far beyond just replicating PowerPoint presentations online: these experiences are intentionally designed to give you the kind of robust and dynamic learning experience you’ve come to expect from Academic Impressions. These trainings provide you with an active learning environment and an online space where you can explore ideas, get inspired by what your peers are doing, and understand the range of possibilities around a certain topic. You will leave these sessions with practical solutions that you can take back to your team or task force.
What you will get:
- A dynamic, interactive, and high-touch virtual learning experience designed to engage and set you up for growth
- Seamless online face-time, networking, group work, and Q&A opportunities from the comfort of your own workspace
- Practical takeaways and hands-on knowledge
- Guidance from vetted subject matter experts
- Unlimited access to all recorded online sessions
AGENDA
12:30 - 3:30 p.m. Eastern Time
In this three-hour virtual session, you will have an opportunity to vet your plans around the following considerations:
- Decision-making about which employees will work on campus vs. remotely
- Balancing employee fears about returning to work with current realities and institutional liabilities
- The role and influence of collective bargaining agreements in the decision-making process
- Creating or revising policies around things like childcare and childcare-related absences
- Cross-training of staff
- Reallocation of employee time for positions that become less relevant or not needed come fall
- Strategies for supporting the emotional health and well-being of managers
- Increased guidance and training to help managers continue to navigate the increased complexity of people management during this time
SPEAKERS
Stacey Deboise Luster
Assistant Vice President for Human Resources, Payroll, and Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity, Worcester State University
Stacey Luster is 3rd generation Worcesterite, who secured her place in Worcester’s history by becoming the only African-American woman to be elected to the Worcester City Council. Stacey is a proud graduate of the Worcester Public Schools. She went on to graduate from St. John’s University in New York, Boston University School of Law, and she is admitted to practice law in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Adrienne D. Harrell
Learning & Talent Development Manager, University of California, Santa Cruz
In her current role, Adrienne creates avenues for people to learn and grow. She believes that education transforms lives and throughout her 30 years of service primarily in Higher Education, her professional expertise and personal commitment to creating educational access and opportunity, especially for those from underrepresented communities continues to be realized. Adrienne carries a light of hope that shines as she works, so that the path is visible to those who follow in the pursuit of excellence.