Flexible Working

Marylou is a Chartered FCIPD and a Director of Wisework Ltd: a consultancy which specialises in flexible and teleworking projects. She has specialised in helping organisations implement flexible working and individuals to achieve work life balance for nearly ten years after working as an organisational development and human resource management consultant since 1991, in both the private and public sectors. This followed a successful 15 year career in training and development holding several management roles in both private and public sectors.

Recent clients have included public sector clients the Hertfordshire County Council, Hinckley and Bosworth District Council, Bath and North East Somerset Council as well as private sector clients such as Leeds & Holbeck Building Society.

Many organisations are responding increasingly to demands for improved customer service, efficiency savings, cost reductions and productivity improvements by implementing new ways of working. In some sectors flexible working is common but not always delivering its full potential. Over recent years a change of emphasis has occurred from flexible working primarily as part of a programme to improve work-life balance to being a strategic operational approach. Now it is much more likely that employers will be looking to flexible working to make a major contribution to business performance. We will cover:
• What is flexible working?
• Challenges
• HR’s contribution
• Flexible Work types
• Successful implementation
• Gains
• Examples

Outcomes
At the end of the session you will have considered how all the tasks HR undertake can contribute to effective flexible working and reviewed present performance in your context.

For a copy of the handouts from this event please click here.  These handouts will only be available until 7th November 2008.

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