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Do you want to get your company to offer equal career opportunities for women and men? Are you keen to uncover any blind spots regarding equal opportunities for men and women? Or would you like to develop specific measures designed to ensure equal opportunities for advancement for the women and men who work in your company? Compose a workshop on the topic of career.

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Duration: 00h05min

5

Greeting

Duration: 00h05min

Aims

Explain and clarify the objectives of the workshop

Variations

Quiz, survey, background information and other links can also be used directly in the workshop.

Materials and preparation

We recommend that participants do the quiz and the survey in advance. Background information about careers, which participants may wish to use to prepare for the workshop, is also available.

You can also integrate these items into your workshop, in which case it is helpful if all participants have access to a computer.

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Duration: 00h10min

10

Brainstorming

Duration: 00h10min

Identify and record existing knowledge about the subject, any known solutions, and possibly any reservations or opposition. These posters can be referred back to in the course of the workshop.

Aims

Gathering participants' existing knowledge in order to be open to new input

Variations

Group or individual posters

Materials and preparation

Create posters and hang them somewhere visible in the space

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Duration: 00h20min

20

Show video clip and discussion A

Duration: 00h20min

Discussion questions :

  • What really stood out for you ? Why ?
  • What differences do you notice between the stories of Corinne Vitale and Priscilla Tripodi ? What position does each woman hold in her company ? How are the women's careers most likely to differ in the future ?
  • What is Renata Lisser, the head of nursing at the care facility, doing to encourage women in their careers ? What else could she be doing ?
  • Renata Lisser stresses that male nurses climb the career ladder faster and assume leadership positions sooner. Why is this ?

Aims

Let the video inspire the sharing of real examples

Variations

All participants in plenary ; small groups, for example separated into management and employees

Before showing the video clip, you can also show the entire film, which will increase the workshop's duration by 30 minutes.

Materials and preparation

The video clip is the basis and starting point of the workshop.

Projector, sound system, laptop

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Duration: 00h30min

30

Show video clip and discussion B

Duration: 00h30min

Discussion questions :

  • How could we help Renate Lisser get more women into leadership positions ?
  • What would this situation look like in our company ?

Then present results/ideas to the whole.

Aims

The video helps to develop awareness of the challenges involved in developing a non-discriminatory career ladder within an organisation.

Variations

All participants in plenary ; small groups, for example separated into management and employees

Materials and preparation

The video clip is the basis and starting point of the workshop.

Notes on ways to improve career opportunities for women can be found in the background information.

Projector, sound system, laptop

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Duration: 00h30min

30

Presentation and discussion of the current situation in one's own company

Duration: 00h30min

Discussion questions :

  • How many men/women occupy which positions in our company ? Are there gender inequalities (e.g. men disproportionately represented) ?
  • Who is responsible for promotions ? Which rules apply to promotions ?
  • Is it possible to hold leadership positions in our company on a part-time basis ?
  • Are women who are (expectant) mothers disadvantaged when it comes to their careers ? (Denied promotions due to pregnancy, forced to cut working hours, denied promotions in general)
  • Is there a need for action to ensure equal career opportunities in our company ?

Aims

Reflection of the situation in the company

Variations

All participants in plenary ; small groups, for example separated into management and employees

Materials and preparation

Note : The preparation takes a little more time !

Create an actual analysis of your company and prepare a presentation :

  • How many men/women occupy which positions in our company ? Are there gender inequalities (e.g. men disproportionately represented) ?
  • Who is responsible for promotions ? Which rules apply to promotions ?
  • Is it possible to hold leadership positions in our company on a part-time basis ?
  • Are women who are (expectant) mothers disadvantaged when it comes to their careers ? (Denied promotions due to pregnancy, forced to cut working hours, denied promotions in general)
  • How much room for manoeuvre is there to ensure equal opportunities in your company ?

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Duration: 00h30min

30

Mind game

Duration: 00h30min

The video suggests that UND could review the career opportunities offered to women and men in your company and make recommendations for an equal gender distribution in senior management positions.
What problems would they find in your company and what recommendations would they make ?

Aims

Think through/role play using examples from the film that could also occur within your company to uncover any blind spots

Variations

Plenary discussion or role play : play out a conversation between UND and the HR manager in your company.

Materials and preparation

The video clip is the basis and starting point of the workshop.

Projector, sound system, laptop

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Duration: 00h45min

45

Role play

Duration: 00h45min

You just met Priscilla Tripodi, an employee at the Buechberg Senior Centre, in the video. Before she became pregnant, she was an active caregiver and also responsible for training. After her maternity leave, she wants to work part-time (40%) and only continue the leadership role as Training Manager with an appropriate salary.

Role play a conversation between Priscilla and the Nursing Supervisor Renata Lisser, also seen in the video, in the following three variants:
Outcome 1: Ms Lisser meets Ms Tripodi's wishes for a leadership position while working part-time in full.
Outcome 2: Ms Lisser points out the difficulties caused by the demands of a leadership while working part-time and suggests a compromise.
Outcome 3: Ms Lisser does not give in to Ms Tripod's wishes and demands and reassigns her to a nursing position without management responsibilities and a lower salary.

Then discuss in the whole group how the two roles felt in each of the variants and which variant would be most likely to occur in your company.

Aims

Think through/role play using examples from the film that could also occur within your company to uncover any blind spots.

Variations

All do the role play in groups of 2; two participants do the role play while the others watch.

Materials and preparation

The video clip is the basis and starting point of the workshop.

Projector, sound system, laptop, name tags for the role play

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Duration: 01h30min

90

Creative tour

Duration: 01h30min

Step 1:
Word associations: Participants each have 30 sec. to write down on individual post-it notes as many words as possible that they associate with a phrase suggested by the facilitator (random words such as spring, solidarity, or having to do with the focus of the workshop). Quantity over quality here! The post-its are collected after each round and then hung on an "inspiration board" poster.

Step 2:
This is where the actual tour of the three posts begins. Participants have 5 minutes at each post and then move on until they have visited them all. The objective is to develop as many new and creative measures to improve career equality in your company as possible, and/or to deal with a particular previously identified problem.
Inspiration board: The post-it notes generated in step 1 can be rearranged or added to.
Random input: On the basis of random objects presented to them, participants write or draw associations related to the focus of the workshop.
Idea map: This is a brainstorming session in which the idea is passed around a circle, with each new participant providing new concepts, references and links.

Step 3:
Inspired by the material provided around the room and the elements on the poster, participants each draft 3-4 ideas on achieving more equal career opportunities within their company or developing solutions to a previously identified specific problem. This is done in pairs selected by the facilitators. Duration: 20 minutes.

Step 4:
The pairs present their results in brief. Then the participants are given 5 glue dots each with which they can individually evaluate the ideas; all of their points can be awarded to a single idea or split among the ideas as they wish.

Step 5:
The pairs then decide on 2-3 of the most popular ideas and use them to develop concrete solutions or measures. 20 minutes.

Aims

In an opening phase, brainstorm as many associations and ideas for more equal opportunities, then reduce the list and make them more precise.

Step 1: Inspiration in a relaxed mood
Step 2: Generate new associations for the workshop focus
Step 3: Develop ideas from (combinations of) associations
Step 4: Evaluate ideas
Step 5: Take these ideas and develop them into concrete solutions/measures

Variations

For more information about these and other creative methods, see http://becreate.ch/.

Step 2:
Depending on the number of participants and available time, the tour can be done individually or in groups of 2.
Pairs can be made up of people in similar or in different positions.

Materials and preparation

  • Reserve a large space and set up before the workshop
  • 2 boxes with enough pens, post-its, adhesive dots
  • Flipcharts (2 each for inspiration board, random input and idea map) and pin boards (for hanging the flipcharts for the inspiration board and idea map), enough A3 sheets to sketch ideas
  • Tables to facilitate random input
  • Random objects for random input

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Duration: 00h10min

10

Discussion of next steps

Duration: 00h10min

  • Determine the next steps with respect to action or concrete measures
  • Create a working group, etc.
  • Define priorities
  • Make concrete arrangements and schedule

Define other topics to be addressed (equal wage, parenthood, Swiss equality policy, female and male professions, part-time employment)

Aims

Address and implement concrete measures

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Duration: 00h10min

10

Evaluation and conclusion

Duration: 00h10min

Aims

Receive impressions and feedback about the workshop

Materials and preparation

The e-learning box contains a template for the evaluation of the workshop which you can use to conclude your event.

Please adapt the template to your workshop.

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Additional elements

Additional elements can be added to your workshop from this field.