Welcome WashU managers! Here you can find training and resources to help you lead and cultivate an enriching employee experience.
Welcome New Managers!
WashU Manager Orientation
Attend orientation training within your first 90 days as a newly hired or promoted manager. Then, you can attend Employee Relations’ monthly Manager 101 series.
Workday’s Manager Training Guide
Manager-specific step-by-step tutorials, reference guides and eLearnings to familiarize yourself with Workday, WashU’s human resources and financial administration system.
Onboarding New Employees
Access templates, checklists and tools to provide support for your employees first 90 days.
Refer your new hire to the Welcome to WashU Hub.
Announcements
Gladney appointed chief human resources officer
The Manager’s Resource
Inspiring People at WashU
Management Courses
Hiring Resources
Search & Interviewing
- Recruitment contacts
- Primary Recruiters and Recruiting Assistants by Job Family (PDF)
- Acceptable and unacceptable interview questions (PDF)
- Behavioral-based interview questions (PDF)
- Sample reference check form (PDF)
- Benefits recruiting guide (PDF)
- Employee benefit cost comparison (XLS)
- Sample total pay statement staff (PDF)
- Sample total pay statement faculty (PDF)
- Recruiting in Workday reference guide
Diversity
Executive Search Services
WashU’s executive search services team supports search committees by bringing executive search industry best practices to high-level/high impact openings assuring a well-qualified diverse slate of candidates. With more than 50 years of combined health care and academic search experience, the team has previously served in leadership roles for leading executive search firms before establishing the in-house service more than 10 years ago.
Contact Mark Prosperi
Executive Director of Talent Management and Executive Search
Leadership Tools
Performance Feedback
- Performance evaluation forms
- Request for job review form (PDF)
- Personnel review justification form (PDF)
- How to provide effective feedback (PDF)
Compensation Tools
- Compensation program objectives
- Writing a job description
- Job description template (DOC)
- Research job description instructions (PDF)
- Bonus authorization form (DOC)
- Payroll deadlines & timeline
- Additional compensation resources
Employee Recognition
Organization Development Team
WashU’s highly experienced Organization Development team is dedicated to assessing, researching, designing, delivering, and evaluating support for WashU leadership. We work on strategic planning design and implementation, leadership coaching and development, individual and team assessments, team culture change, change management and performance management. Find resources below.
Contact Organization Development
Additional Supervisor Resources:
- 360 feedback FAQs (DOC)
- 7 steps to develop a position back-up plan (PDF)
- Engage/stay interviews (PDF)
- Re-recruiting existing employees resources and tools for leaders (PDF)
- Skip-level reviews (PDF)
- Working remotely playbook; Strategies, tips and tools (PDF)
- Leadership coaching FAQs (PDF)
- Successful coaching strategies (PDF)
- Institute for Leadership Excellence
- WashU Kudos Digital Message Feed | Awardco
Your Role as a Leader – Taking Care of Your Employees
Employee Policies and Procedures
For Compensation Questions, please contact Tom Kraft.
For Employee Relations questions, please contact EmployeeRelations@wustl.edu.