The COVID-19 pandemic caused many organisations to go into warp speed and pivot their workforce to remote working almost overnight in 2020. The return to pre-pandemic office routines has been slow, and many organisations are now keen to work in a more agile and flexible way. Hybrid working does, however, introduce a new set of challenges, and that requires new thinking, new policies and significant cultural change.This course will help you to explore your current organisational structure, plans, external environment and sustainability to consider how you strengthen your hybrid working infrastructure. You will begin to identify what digital transformation means in the higher education institutes (HEIs) sector and how this accelerates working practices for hybrid. You will also start to create habits to continue to future-proof your organisation, and consider future ways of working that may arise and how to prepare for them.This course is part of the Supporting hybrid working and digital transformation collection, made possible by the Higher Educational Funding Council for Wales.
Overview
Syllabus
- Introduction
- Learning outcomes
- 1 Thinking about your organisational context now
- 1 Thinking about your organisational context now
- 2 Operating in uncertain times
- 2 Operating in uncertain times
- 2.1 Dealing with uncertainty
- 2.2 The problem with problems
- 2.3 Explore your organisation’s external factors
- 3 Sustainability and wellbeing
- 3 Sustainability and wellbeing
- 3.1 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
- 3.2 The Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act 2015
- 3.3 Reducing your carbon emissions
- 3.4 Digital carbon footprints
- 3.5 Sustainable development
- 4 How we work now
- 4 How we work now
- 4.1 The new working environment
- 4.2 Putting people first
- 4.3 The evolution of the employee
- 4.4 Thinking about inclusion
- 4.5 Generational diversity
- 4.6 Inclusion considerations for females
- 4.7 Rural inclusion
- 5 Organisational structures
- 5 Organisational structures
- 5.1 Use of space – onsite and remote
- 5.2 Redesigning space for sustainability
- 5.3 Using space to work differently
- 6 The digital strategy for Wales
- 6 The digital strategy for Wales
- 7 Digital transformation
- 7 Digital transformation
- 7.1 Digital leadership
- 7.2 Digital inclusion
- 8 Transforming your organisation for the future
- 8 Transforming your organisation for the future
- 8.1 Developing your workforce
- 8.2 Building a data-driven culture
- 8.3 Using data for decision making
- 8.4 Policies and process
- 9 A shorter week: thinking about long-term planning
- 9 A shorter week: thinking about long-term planning
- 10 Course summary
- 10 Course summary
- References
- Acknowledgements
