Flexible career management
Featured in the Managing Career Development training manual
By Andrew Mayo & Geoff Atkinson& Karen Glasse
Category: Personal Development
Credit price: 4 download credits (Single user)
Frequently, organisations are faced with valuable employees contemplating leaving the organisation as a result of not being able to combine their personal circumstances or motivations with standard working arrangements. This activity examines alternative career arrangements, such as part-time working, self-employment, and so on, in conjunction with working with the company.
An introductory exercise looks at working arrangements that exist in today’s organisations and asks participants to re-evaluate their own working arrangements. They then examine the concept of flexible working and the external factors that bring about organisational transformation. They discuss what happens in other organisations by reviewing their pre-activity preparation work. Next, the participants look at workload planning by studying examples of different options, how to plan resources, and forecast workloads. Following this, they explore the motivations, values and career paths of their employees. This involves the use of counselling skills and counselling tools. A final review looks at the two main aspects of flexibility in the workforce that the participants have investigated in this training activity and the actions they would like to take as a result.
Who is it for: This training resource is intended for use by trainers to help managers to plan the more flexible working arrangements in their organisations which are needed to encourage a flexible workforce
- Themes:
- Career planning and development,
- Continuing professional development,
- Counselling skills,
- Flexible working,
- Life and career development,
- Management development,
- Motivation,
- Personal development,
- Personal development planning,
- Personal effectiveness,
- Self-development,
- Self-management,
- Work/life balance,
- Work planning.,
| Resource Type: | Activity |
| Min Group Size: | 6 |
| Max Group Size: | 20 |
| Typical Duration: | 02:55:00 |
| No of Pages: | 27 |
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Purpose: This training resource is intended for use by trainers with participants who are managers. It can readily be applied to a number of practical problems related to retaining key staff who may otherwise leave an organisation. It can also be used when managers are faced with departmental workloads that do not suit standard working arrangements. Use the training activity as a stand-alone activity, part of a career workshop, or as part of a general management training programme.
Download the training activity, Flexible career management as featured in the Fenman training manual; Managing Career Development