Driving efficiencies and opportunities for collaboration across all of the campuses and central administration is the mission of OneHR, an effort that arose from the work of the Human Resources Budget Response Team.
The work continued on Dec. 10, when members of each of the human resources teams from UNMC, the University of Nebraska at Omaha, the University of Nebraska at Kearney, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and University of Nebraska Central Administration met at the East Campus Student Union on the UNL campus for an all-day retreat focused on teamwork and identifying efficiencies in the work happening across all of the campuses. The day included more than 75 participants.
The group spent the day working with a tool called Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument to:
- Drive deeper connections to each other across campuses by sharing each contributor’s strengths;
- Analyze the thinking preferences of the overall HR team, each campus, each functional business unit and within smaller teams by campus; and
- Explore opportunities for collaboration across campuses within our functions.
“Each team was shown their preferred thinking styles, how they tend to think as a collective group and introduced to their blind spots including the impact those blind spots have in their department deliverables,” said UNMC’s Diane Ratigan, who led the planning committee for the event.
After receiving their individual and team results, seven functional groups broke out to identify the biggest challenges facing their work to use the tool and discuss those challenges on a deeper level including action planning.
“We designed the day for a deeper level of collaboration across all of our campuses,” Ratigan said. “This work will be an ongoing effort for all of the HR teams in the future.”