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#WorkSchoolHours Online Course
People Leaders edition
This course goes beyond traditional flexible working arrangements. It's about leveraging #WorkSchoolHours principles to foster an environment where your team can achieve its best work—without sacrificing flexibility, or organisational requirements.
Transforming Workplaces for High Performance and Flexibility
Are you a people leader tasked with maintaining high team performance while navigating the demands for flexibility and autonomy?
Do concerns about productivity, clear outcomes, and the potential for increased administration hold you back?
The #WorkSchoolHours course is designed for leaders like you, ready to revolutionise how work is done to benefit everyone.
Learn how to address common managerial and leadership challenges, from ensuring productivity to simplifying administration, all while keeping your team engaged and motivated.
What You'll Achieve
Understand the Struggle: Gain insight into the historical and societal constructs leading to the current state of work-life imbalance and its impact on team dynamics.
Revolutionary Principles for People Leaders: Learn how #WorkSchoolHours benefits organisations, not just in theory, but as a commercially smart proposition.
Strategies for Change: Equip yourself with leadership strategies, communication techniques, and case studies of successful implementations.
Effective Team Engagement: Master the art of conversation with your team to co-create flexible working arrangements that work for everyone.
Practical Tools and Resources: Utilise step-by-step videos and a comprehensive workbook designed to facilitate planning and execution.
Lead the Future of Work: Create a team and organisation that thrives and people want to work for.
What’s In It:
Total Lessons: 18 Bite-Sized engaging lessons .
Support Materials: Worksheets and resources designed to move you from insight to action.
Duration: While self-paced, this course can be completed over two weeks, allowing for deep understanding and application.
Your Guide: Dr Ellen Joan Ford
Dr Ellen Joan Ford is a visionary leader and advocate for transforming the workplace into an environment where flexibility and high performance coexist. With an extensive background that includes leading soldiers in the NZ Army, earning an MBA and a PhD focused on leadership and the future of work, Ellen is uniquely equipped to guide people leaders through the process of implementing #WorkSchoolHours in their teams.
Her accolades, such as receiving the prestigious Sir Peter Blake Leadership Award, and being named KiwiBank New Zealander of the Year - Local Hero and Person of the Year - Manawatu Standard, underscore her commitment to creating positive change and leadership. You’ll find Ellen an inspiring and down-to-earth guide to creating real change.
Special Launch Offer: $599
(Standard Price: $799)
Course Outline
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Lesson 1: Introduction
Lesson 2: Who I am and my journey into this
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Lesson 1: The history of work that created this struggle
Lesson 2: Understanding what’s going on for your people
Lesson 3: Adding to the load - Gender
Lesson 4: The current solutions are not enough - Bandaids
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Lesson 1: From Surviving to Thriving: Belonging, Autonomy and Purpose overview
Lesson 2: Belonging, Autonomy and Purpose: Case Study
Lesson 3: Why #WorkSchoolHours is the solution
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Lesson 1: Focus on outputs
Lesson 2: The flexible working paradox
Lesson 3: Better facilitating teamwork
Lesson 4: The attitudes needed
Lesson 5: Application in different scenarios / industries
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Lesson 1: Do a stocktake
Lesson 2: Prepare / Make a Plan
Lesson 3: Having the conversation, do what you can & evaluate it
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Lesson 1: How to share this idea with others
FAQs
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The course provides a framework for defining clear outcomes with your team, ensuring productivity remains high while embracing flexibility.
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No. The course offers strategies to streamline planning and reduce administrative tasks, making flexibility manageable and beneficial for everyone.
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You'll learn how to trial new ways of working and measure success based on personal and team success metrics, ensuring the arrangements meet your team's and organisation's goals.
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Absolutely. The application of the principles of #WorkSchoolHours is unique to every role, organisation and industry. This course provides examples from a wide range of sectors, to demonstrate how improvements can be made beyond office workers.
