2021 Business Partner Web Series

Description

Join us for an engaging discussion from within MIT’s School of Engineering drawing upon faculty, researchers, & students from MIT Schools of Management, Architecture & Planning, and Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences.  MIT's Age Lab is funded by companies & non-profits worldwide and its goal is to apply a systems approach to address the challenges and opportunities of longevity, consumer behavior and decision making with a focus on trends in demographics, technology, and lifestyles.

Today, a college-educated person with a comfortable income is likely to live into their 80s. A life this long can be divided into four periods, averaging roughly 8,000 days each. The period from birth to college graduation is approximately 8,000 days. College graduation to midlife, or 46 years of age, is another 8,000 days. Midlife to the retirement age of 66 is also 8,000 days. After that, there’s generally another 8,000 days for retirement. Retirement planning doesn’t exactly take into account the realities of an 8,000-day retirement; a script hasn’t been written for that final. 

Learning Objectives

By the end of this session participants will:

• Anticipate what employees will face in retirement—whether that’s Day 7, Day 362, or Day 3,459
• Convey how you can co-create a story that people can realistically see themselves as the main character
• Maintain your core competency and value but evolve to serve as a curator of a yet largely uncharted life phase of 8,000 days
• Help employees understand that planning for what they’ll do in retirement can be as important as planning for what retirement will cost
• Describe the four phases of an 8,000 day retirement and the key issues employees and retirees can face in each phase

Description

In general, organizations leverage either a centralized (functions co-located) or decentralized (functions in multiple locations) operating models. However, COVID-19 has necessitated that most organizations figure out how to operate virtually (all functions working from home). This dramatic change has placed new challenges on people, processes, and technology to meet the needs of a new work environment. Join this session to learn from other higher education institutions about some of their most common challenges, solutions implemented, and lessons learned operating in a remote work environment. 

Learning Objectives

By the end of this session participants will:

• Describe the challenges that other higher education institutions experienced due to COVID.
• Describe ways other higher education institutions changed their operating model due to COVID.
• Discuss key lessons that higher education institutions can learn from and what changes will remain in practice after COVID.

Description

Higher Education work environments are changing and campus expectations are shifting. We will consider changes and opportunities in campus areas including human capital, technology, and facilities in creating and sustaining an innovative environment post-pandemic.In March 2020, we packed 10 years of change in two weeks. Some of these changes are irreversible and some will go back. Some we don’t want to go back. In this interactive workshop, we will build on lessons learned from the pandemic. We will share specific changes that were accelerated and trends formed that need to be built upon going forward

Learning Objectives

By the end of this session, participants will:

• Describe what was learned from 2020 and carrying this forward post-pandemic
• Describe what the next-level changes will be in human capital, technology, and facilities
• Describe how to capitalize on opportunities on your campus
• Describe how “what if thinking” can be a game changer across campus
• Describe ways to make positive change on your campus