Elevating Cougs

Elevating Cougs 2024: Workday Success Stories for managers and supervisors

The 2024 Elevating Cougs conference offers employees who supervise others the opportunity to learn more about using Workday to its fullest potential, including new functionality and resources launched in the last year, to perform management tasks and help their teams succeed at work. At the 2023 Elevating Cougs conference, Workday Success Stories sessions covered a […]

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Workday skills review: Prepare for Elevating Cougs 2024

In 2023, the Workday Success Stories track at Elevating Cougs offered sessions covering a variety of higher-level topics in finance, HCM, payroll, grants, and reporting. This year’s sessions will feature deeper dives into certain processes and tools in Workday, and recent innovations across these functional areas.  Because this year’s sessions include advanced insight into Workday […]

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Sneak Peek: Elevating Cougs 2024 for grants admins. and PIs

The 2024 Elevating Cougs conference offers Grants Managers and Principal Investigators (PIs) the opportunity to learn more about using Workday to its fullest potential to perform grants management tasks, including new and innovative grants tools and functionality launched within the last year. At the 2023 Elevating Cougs conference, Workday Success Stories grants sessions covered a […]

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Workday Success Stories track continues at 2024 Elevating Cougs conference

Last year, the 2023 Elevating Cougs Conference Workday Success Stories track provided the opportunity to hear from Workday users from across WSU as they shared the proven best practices and approaches for getting the most out of Workday. We’re excited to offer an all-new series of Workday Success Stories sessions as part of this year’s […]

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Elevating Cougs site moving to HRS Learning & Organizational Development

Beginning April 1, 2024, the primary webpage and home for information for the Elevating Cougs conference will move from the Modernization site to the HRS Learning & Organizational Development (LOD) site. As the home for institution-wide training and professional development at WSU, Learning & Organizational Development will be the source of updates and information regarding […]

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Elevating Cougs session recordings now available in Percipio

WSU employees may now view and share session recordings and materials from Elevating Cougs in Percipio. Want to review a favorite session, catch up on sessions you may have missed, or share resources with your colleagues? Visit the 2023 Elevating Cougs Replay and Additional Resources page in Percipio. You can also find links to individual […]

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A look back at Elevating Cougs 2023

On October 19 & 20, nearly 800 WSU staff and faculty, as well as speakers from other universities and organizations, joined Modernization and HRS’ Learning & Organizational Development for the first-ever Elevating Cougs conference. We’d like to thank the WSU community for making Elevating Cougs a success. By attending, presenting, or supporting planning efforts, you […]

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Elevating Cougs: Know before you go!

It’s almost time for the 2023 Elevating Cougs conference, hosted by Modernization and HRS’ Learning & Organizational Development. We’re looking forward to gathering virtually with 500+ registered Cougs from across the university October 19 & 20. We hope you’ll join us! If you plan to attend, here’s what you should know before you go: The […]

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Accessing Elevating Cougs sessions on the Zoom Events platform

Elevating Cougs is a fully remote, two-day conference experience offered by Modernization and HRS’ Learning and Organizational Development. WSU employees can choose from more than 80 sessions available on the conference’s Zoom events platform. Below is an introduction to using the Zoom events platform to access and attend sessions. There are two different ways to […]

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Workday Success Stories: Workday makes planning easier for WSU departments

From daily tasks to important annual events, Workday enables departments to more easily plan for and conduct activities across all functional areas. Since the launch of Workday, WSU staff and the Modernization team have worked together to determine timelines for Finance and HCM events that occur on a monthly, semester, or yearly basis. Through integrated […]

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