A short time ago I hit the one year mark of my time at K-State. As a student of history I learned to examine the past but also to look to build the future informed by what came before. I think that is what we all do at a university — we build something new, discover something new and create something new often on the shoulders of what came before. Our K-State 2025 plan does just that. Based on K-State 2025 and what has already happened and what we want to achieve, Human Capital Services also has a 2025 strategic plan. We have some amazing team members in HCS working every day to make things better.
Our leadership team met in December of 2017 to develop and lay out our strategic priorities for the coming year. From those priorities, informed by our 2025 plan, ambitious goals were formed. Among those goals were an HRIS functional upgrade from PeopleSoft 9.1 to version 9.2. In a few short months, with the partnership of colleagues from ISO and ITS, we accomplished that goal.
Another of our goals is the development of a supervisor training program for all supervisors at K-State. Work on accomplishing that kicked off with meetings with a variety of campus stakeholders, listening sessions with campus partners and design work on content. This program will offer incredible resources and tools for those who supervise on campus.
We also have begun work on the foundations of implementation of a competency model and career ladders. Competencies are observable and measurable skills and behaviors that contribute to workplace effectiveness and career success. You will be hearing more about this very soon.
We established a strategic advisory council for Human Capital Services, which had its first meeting in early June. This council is made up of a variety of campus constituents from varying backgrounds. We appreciate their willingness to be our sounding board and help guide and evaluate our efforts and strategy as we continue building a customer-centric culture.
Like many of you, HCS has a lot of exciting, challenging initiatives to tackle and achieve. Keeping you informed is one of those initiatives and we hope this newsletter helps.