Elevating Cougs offers something meaningful for everyone, no matter your role, goals, or experience level. It’s a chance to pause, reflect, and invest in your growth, both personally and professionally.
To help you get the most from the conference, we create a series of tailored schedules and recommended sessions based around the goals you have to take advantage of this learning opportunity.
Explore the tailored schedules for the 2026 Elevating Cougs Conference below:
Recommended sessions for those looking for new tools and smart tips to boost efficiency:
- Level Up Excel
- Outlook Essentials: Managing Your Inbox, Calendar, and Campus Resources
- Behind the Scenes: Advanced Outlook Calendar Management Tools for Productivity and Power Users
- Maybe This Shouldn’t Be a Spreadsheet: Building People-Centered Workflows Beyond Excel
- SmartSheets: Manage Projects, Optimize Workflows, and Get More Done With Less
- Project & Time Management for Communications
Explore these sessions if you’re seeking ways to communicate more clearly and effectively:
- Turning Change into Clarity: A Practical Communication Framework for WSU Managers
- Tough Conversations Toolkit: The Conversations You’ve Been Avoiding
- Beyond the Zoom Call: Practical Strategies for Real Connection at Work
For an immediate boost to your day-to-day, attend these sessions:
- Project & Time Management of Communications
- Level Up Excel
- Problem-Solving with Your WSU Libraries
- Behind the Scenes: Advanced Outlook Calendar Management Tools for Productivity and Power Userss
- ITS Cyber Security Panel
- Percipio for Learning Admins
- Percipio for Professional Development
- Doomscrolling Detox: Finding Your Balance in the Digital Age
These sessions focus on Workday and related systems for those in finance, HR, and operational roles:
- Navigating Grants Forecasting in Adaptive Planning
- Accounting Center
- TouchNet
- What’s New in Workday HCM
- Workday Security & Delegation
- Fund/Function/FDM Deep-dive
- Punchout Marketplace for Scientific Supplies
- Advanced Time Entry
- Time Entry to Payroll and Basic Time Entry
- Understanding Item Types in Workday
- ITS Cyber Security Panel
- Percipio for Learning Admins
- Doomscrolling Detox: Finding Your Balance in the Digital Age
- EAP at WSU: How to Get the Most From This Amazing Benefit
- Yoga for Every Body: Gentle Chair Yoga
- Mindfulness and Gentle Movement: Reconnect, Recharge, and Renew
- Military-Affiliated Awareness: A Mini Mastery in Connection, Support, and Allyship
- Employee Rights and Responsibilities Under UPPM 10.60
- Hazing Prevention at WSU
- Understanding WSU’s Coordinated Approach to Student Support, Standards, and Compliance
- FERPA at WSU
- Beyond the Zoom Call: Practical Strategies for Real Connection at Work
These sessions focus on university policy, employee rights and responsibilities, and best practices for student and employee support. Some sessions may fulfill compliance requirements.
- Understanding WSU’s Coordinated Approach to Student Support, Standards, and Compliance
- Military-Affiliated Awareness: A Mini Mastery in Connection, Support, and Allyship
- Hazing Prevention at WSU
- WSU’s University Ethics Policy Under UPPM 10.65
- Employee Rights and Responsibilities Under UPPM 10.60
- EAP at WSU: How to get the most from this amazing benefit
- ITS Cyber Security Panel
- Percipio for Learning Admins
- Percipio for Professional Development
Use the tools and tactics from these sessions to help find your center amid information overload:
- Doomscrolling Detox: Finding Your Balance in the Digital Age
- Project & Time Management for Communications
- Outlook Essentials: Managing Your Inbox, Calendar, and Campus Resources
- Yoga for Every Body: Gentle Chair Yoga
Learn how fellow Cougs are using these tools to bring efficiency to their work days:
- Level Up Excel
- Outlook Essentials: Managing Your Inbox, Calendar, and Campus Resources
- Behind the Scenes: Advanced Outlook Calendar Management Tools for Productivity and Power Users
- Maybe This Shouldn’t Be a Spreadsheet: Building People-Centered Workflows Beyond Excel
- SmartSheets: Manage Projects, Optimize Workflows, and Get More Done With Less
