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
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Explain and clarify the objectives of the workshop
Quiz, survey, background information and other links can also be used directly in the workshop.
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.
Duration: 00h10min
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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.
Gathering participants' existing knowledge in order to be open to new input
Group or individual posters
Create posters and hang them somewhere visible in the space
Duration: 00h20min
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Discussion questions :
Let the video inspire the sharing of real examples
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.
The video clip is the basis and starting point of the workshop.
Projector, sound system, laptop
Duration: 00h30min
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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.
The video helps to develop awareness of the challenges involved in developing a non-discriminatory system for work hour flexibility.
All participants in plenary ; small groups, for example separated into management and employees
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
Duration: 00h30min
30Duration: 00h30min
Discussion questions :
Reflection of the situation in one's own company
All participants in plenary ; small groups, for example separated into management and employees
Note: the preparation takes a little more time !
Create an actual analysis of your company and prepare a presentation :
Duration: 00h30min
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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 ?
Think through/role play using examples from the film that could also occur within your company to uncover any blind spots
Plenary discussion or role-play : play out a conversation between Mr Huber and your company's HR manager.
The video clip is the basis and starting point of the workshop.
Projector, sound system, laptop
Duration: 00h45min
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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.
Think through/role play using examples from the film that could also occur within your company to uncover any blind spots.
All do the role play in groups of 2; two participants do the role-play while the others watch.
The video clip is the basis and starting point of the workshop.
Projector, sound system, laptop, name tags for the role play
Duration: 01h30min
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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.
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
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.
Duration: 00h10min
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Address and implement concrete measures
Duration: 00h10min
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Receive impressions and feedback about the workshop
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.
Additional elements can be added to your workshop from this field.