[BNG 2021 VX] Putting Blue to Work at Washtenaw Community College V 2.0

Presenter(s): Gloria Eccleston & Amy N. Artiles, Washtenaw Community College; Andres Rodriguez, Explorance

How do you really take full advantage of your investment in BLUE and the qualified Blue Administrators you have on your campus during a global pandemic when normal operations are in constant fluctuation? You maximize this powerful tools potential by leveraging it for more than course and instructor evaluations. This session follows up on our 2020 presentation, Putting Blue to Work at WCC, and tells the rest of the story. What went well, what was disastrous, and how we made the most of our lemons to create the tastiest lemonade ever imagined. Working hand-in-hand with Andres, we took the 2020 online Annual Performance Appraisals to the next level, leveraging our lessons learned and features of Blue 7.19 to launch the 2021 online Employee appraisals. Well, why not put BLUE to use for evaluations that can’t be done in the typical face-toface setting. Watch this session to learn how WCC again adapted a 360 survey, paired it with a virtual meeting and rolled out our V 2.0 with three employee groups, three people completing one survey, and custom report release dates. There are lots to share for our “lessons learned” including what we incorporated and what we went back to square one with for these evaluations. Based on the 2020 experience, we put 360’s to work for a first-ever Blue survey of all WCC staff and faculty as we explored opinions related to COVID-19. Blue has a lot of untapped potential that you will want to hear about!