Repost from East Laird Times, Monday, November 21, 2022
Carleton Provost, Michelle Mattson, recently shared the message below in the East Laird Times on November 21st. We wanted to share it again as a celebration of our upcoming Workday go-live, and as an important framework for how to approach the use of Workday. As Michelle highlights in her message, campus communications are already being sent to set expectations and help us prepare for the use of Workday, so please keep an eye out in the weeks ahead.
Dear colleagues,
As part of the SEAMS Executive Committee, I want to call your attention to a few communication issues that will be important for all of us to keep in mind over this coming break from classes. Now that many of the Workday features will be going live, there will be any number of e-mail messages that go out to you as a whole and — in some cases — to a select group of folks that play specific roles on campus. Please keep an eye out for those e-mails! They will come from different senders, but they should contain the word “Workday” in the subject heading. Many of them, like the one in today’s ELT, will include links to learning opportunities about particular features of Workday that will be important to your work, so please do take advantage of these opportunities.
Also, I’d like to remind everyone at this point again that we will experience a variety of challenges as parts of Workday go live. Please be patient and kind in responses to the staff members that are working tirelessly to make this transition possible. It is the season to give thanks, and I am particularly grateful to our colleagues across the institution that have spent so much of their time helping us move to a new platform that we believe will eventually truly be much better for the ways we do our business together.
Finally, have a wonderful break from classes and enjoy time with family and friends.
Gratefully, Michelle