It’s easy to see why flexible working is so popular: organisations save on office costs and productivity increases; employees reduce travel time while gaining better work life balance. But implementing flexible working isn’t as easy as it seems, and requires a major shift in attitudes and behaviours from both managers and their staff. In this comprehensive and practical one day event, you will learn how to make it a success in your team or department.
Glasgow - 24 May 2012. Venue information.
Who should attend
- Managers who are about to introduce flexible working into their team or department
- Managers whose staff already working flexibly and who want to make it work better
Benefits of attending
- A thorough insight into all aspects of flexible working, its benefits and its downsides
- How to agree individual flexible working packages with each of your staff members
- How to increase productivity by focusing on results, not effort
- Best practice in hot desking, home working, using technology and developing skills
- How to help your team make the psychological shift needed in attitude and behaviour in order to make flexible working a success.
Course content
- What it means to work flexibly – flexibility in place, time and contract
- How to reach agreement on how flexibly each of your team members can work, bearing in mind the constraints of their job, individual preferences and individual circumstances
- Managing for results, not effort – how to ensure people deliver results when they are working remotely
- Hot desking – ten things you must do to make it work
- Working from home – when it works and when it doesn’t
- Checking the practicalities – from good IT to Health and Safety at home
- Using the technology – teleconferencing, WebEx and tools for collaboration
- Social interaction – why social interaction is vital to productivity, and how to make it happen when you’re not all in the office every day
- New starters – why you have to structure things differently
- Making the psychological shift - for you and your staff
- How to develop the skills of flexible working in your team
Your programme leader – Larry Reynolds
Larry is managing partner of 21st Century Leader, a specialist organisational change consultancy. He has developed the change leadership skills of local authority managers in Cumbria, Derby, Doncaster, Hampshire, Kirklees, Manchester, Newcastle and Shropshire. He has also advised senior managers at Greater Manchester Police, the Department of Health and the Department for Social Development in Northern Ireland. He also runs our popular Leading Change in Turbulent Times workshop.
