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Do you want to enable your company to offer equal opportunities for women and men to work both full and part-time? Would you like to uncover any blind spots regarding equal opportunities for women and men to work both full and part-time? Or do you wish to develop specific measures designed to ensure equal access to flexible work hours for both genders? Compose a workshop on part-time employment.

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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 part-time employment, 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 do you think of Corinne Vitale's statement that her husband would be willing to cut his work hours after the birth of their child, but she is not ?
  • Claude Werder, managing director at her employer Samuel Werder AG, explains the company's open attitude and helpfulness concerning part-time work. Do you think that this is enough flexibility with regard to work hours ?
  • Claude Werder tells the story of a colleague who threatened to quit if he could not work part-time. It worked. What does it mean if this is the only way part-time work can be allowed ? Who can work part-time ?
  • Based on what Mr Werder has said, are you hopeful that fathers might be able to spend more time with their children in the future ?
  • What do you think of part-time work and/or job-sharing in leadership positions ? What would you think of a national right to part-time work or workload reduction ?

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. This will make the workshop 30 minutes longer.

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 question :
Claude Werder outlines a vision for the future where men will have more time for their families and thus be able to work part-time more often. What would have to happen to allow this ?

Then present results/ideas to the whole.

Aims

The video helps to develop awareness of the challenges involved in developing a non-discriminatory system for work hour flexibility.

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.

References to making work hours more flexible 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 :

  • What are the criteria for deciding on working hours ? Who is responsible for deciding between full and part-time ?
  • Are there positions/working conditions which require a minimum number of hours (certain positions, home office options, continuing education, credits for absences...) ?
  • Are there situations where part-time work makes more sense ?
  • How many men and women work full-time in our company and how many work part-time (and in which positions) ?
  • Are there gender inequalities in our company with respect to who is working part-time ?
  • Is there a need for action to ensure equal access to flexible work hours in our company ?

Aims

Reflection of the situation in one's own 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 :

  • What are the criteria for deciding on work hours ? Who is responsible for deciding between full and part-time ?
  • Are there positions/working conditions which require a minimum number of hours (certain positions, home office options, continuing education, credits for absences, ...) ?
  • How many men and women work full-time in our company and how many work part-time (and in which positions) ?
  • Are there gender inequalities in our company with respect to who is working part-time ?
  • Is there any leeway to ensure equal access to flexible work hours in your company ?

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Duration: 00h30min

30

Mind game

Duration: 00h30min

At the end of the film, you met Daniel Huber, managing director of UND, the office responsible for promoting work/life balance in Switzerland. Mr Huber advises companies on issues related to flexible work hours, organizational structure and frameworks.

What problems would he find in your company and what recommendations would he 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 Mr Huber and your company's HR manager.

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

In the video, social researcher Lucia M Lanfranconi tells of a single father in a management role who did not dare ask if he could reduce his workload. What would have to happen for men to feel free to express their needs?


Role play a hypothetical conversation between this man (Mr Miller) and his boss (Ms Huber) when he decides to ask her for reduced work hours in each of these three variants:
Outcome 1: The boss agrees to allow Mr Miller to keep his position while working part-time.
Outcome 2: The boss points out the difficulties caused by the demands of a leadership while working part-time and suggests a compromise.
Outcome 3: The boss does not agree to his request and suggests to Mr Miller that he quit his job and find one without management responsibility where part-time work would be more realistic or else stay on full-time as he is currently doing.

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 part-time working in your company as possibe, 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 where 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 draft 3-4 ideas each on achieving more equal access to flexible working hours within their company, or developing solutions for 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. Duration: 20 minutes.

Aims

Generate as many associations and ideas as possible in the opening phase, and then reduce them 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 for sketching out ideas
  • Tables to facilitate random input
  • Random objects for random input

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Duration: 00h10min

10

Discussion of next steps

Duration: 00h10min

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.