Cate Walter: How to Get Flexible Working to Work For Your Business & For Your Employees
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English - November 04, 2019 00:00 - 45 minutes - 41.4 MB - ★★★★ - 8 ratingsCareers Business Investing Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
‘Where flexible working is implemented well and is successful the end result is always fulfilled engaged motivated staff'
Gavin is in conversation with Cate Walter and in this episode they talk about how and why creating a flexible working culture in high growth businesses benefits everyone involved.
Cate Walter is a director of Rhino Safety, a multi-award-winning Health, Safety, Fire Risk and Environmental Consultancy based in Cheshire.
With a background in Employment Law and HR Cate is passionate about the positive impact of flexible working and shares her expertise and experience of working with a range of companies to grow successful flexible working strategies. She also reflects on implementing flexible working at Rhino from the very start and the how as a high growth business it is a
A culture that benefits everyone.
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KEY TAKEAWAYS
Creating flexible working in high growth businesses is hugely positive and beneficial for both the business and the people who work within it.
What are the challenges in high growth businesses?
Flexible working is very much seen in the realms of women with no consideration of any other groups needing or wanting flexible working.
There is a fear that if one person is working flexibly it would open the floodgates for everyone and that it then isn't possible to operate a business effectively day to day.
The legislation is a massive part of the problem it is extremely well-intentioned and very poorly executed.
It makes what should be a relatively simple exercise into something very complicated and it's that which creates the fear.
How can flexible working be effectively and successfully implemented?
There is a myriad of ways for people to work flexibly.
All of our team members have full flexibility to decide on their hours.
Everybody has core working hours – this is used as a guide to the number of hours we've agreed is needed to fulfil the work commitments.
We count the work not the hours, It's all about the outcomes.
Where flexible working is implemented well and is successful the end result is always fulfilled engaged motivated staff.
Where this happens, people are more likely to be flexible in return towards the company.
It has to be based on a relationship of reciprocity, mutual respect and trust.
It is key that management believes in flexible working as a strategy.
Flexible working is all about culture and in our company flexible working is there for your life, so you can have the lifestyle you want alongside positive engagement at work.
BEST MOMENTS
‘We were in that situation where every week we had Sunday night dread'
‘We have to afford them the same flexibility we afford ourselves'
‘I champion people not trying to do it all for themselves. Get the support of an outside qualified person for HR if required'
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ABOUT THE HOST
Gavin Preston
Gavin is an inspirational Speaker, Business Strategist, Business Growth Mentor, Trainer and
high-performance Coach. He works with Business Owners and Entrepreneurs and has a strong track record in creating creative strategies to accelerate the growth of their business. He has helped hundreds of SME business owners and leaders improve their performance and that of their business and a comparable number of executives and employees in blue-chip corporates over the last 20 years.
Gavin's energetic, insightful and yet down to earth and practical talks, workshops and coaching is in demand with high growth business between £250,000 and £30 million revenue and with multi-national organisations at all levels from Board to frontline
Managers. He is an expert in Business Growth Strategies, Peak Performance
Mindset, Persuasion & Engagement, Marketing, Productivity, Leadership
Development, Team Development & Motivation, Leading Change, Stakeholder
Management, Personal Effectiveness and Behavioural Change.
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