Promote Flexible Work Arrangements DIY Learning Circle

Attract and retain talent with flexible work arrangements

Facilitated by Freelance Total Rewards

No schedules on the calendar

Who is it for

Learning level

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Location

  1. 73 Ubi Road 1, #09-52 Oxley BizHub, Singapore, SG, Singapore View Map

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Premise

All organizations compete for the best talent at acceptable cost. But there is another way to compete for talent at little or no cost: flexible work arrangements. Flexi-time, flexi-place and flexi-load are fast becoming the norm. According to Deloitte, two-thirds of millennials expect FWAs. Learn why employers in all industries are changing their mindset about when and where work gets done.

Description

The Flexible Work Arrangements Learning Circle (FWA LC) starts in a live classroom for a 2-hour session, and continues online, as you complete the modules, explore the topic and share with other members of the LC. After explaining how learning circles work, we will look at the "total rewards" offered by employers and understand where work-life and flexible work arrangements fit in, alongside salary and benefits.

You and other learners will have lots of opportunity to share your experiences, motivations and needs in a secure and mutually supportive learning-focused environment, starting offline (live) and continuing online. If you think this is a training course where you just sit and listen, think again. It's a learning circle. Come join others committed to supporting flexibility in the workplace!

Key Learnings

  • Explain the total rewards package and how workplace flexibility fits in.

  • Articulate your current situation and desired future state as you promote flexibility.

  • Describe the key types of flexible work arrangements, and formulate a game plan.

  • Learn to use learning circles to promote and guide use of FWAs.

Pre-requisites

The course is for leaders, white collar people managers, or human resources professionals who understand the need to support workplace flexibility to attract and retain talent.

Format

Methodology

Learning stakeholder

Pre-learning

1. Watch Apple's At Home Advisors video: https://www.apple.com/jobs/sg/aha.html
2. Write down one reason flexible work arrangements would help your organization.

Post-learning

Additional FWA LC modules and courses.

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Topics and agenda

  • 1. Participant onboarding

    | 20 Minutes

    Covers navigation, settings, mobile access, house rules and other relevant highlights

    To help participants hit the ground running and maximize their learning experience and outcome


  • 2. Describe Work-Life, Flexible Work Arrangements and Total Rewards

    Workshop | 20 Minutes

    Learn how the total rewards package attracts and retains talent, and pair up to discuss what actually attracts and what retains, from your own experience.

    Ability to position flexible work arrangements within a total rewards package, to enhance the ability to attract and retain.


  • 3. Make Your Pitch for Flexible Work Arrangements

    Workshop | 30 Minutes

    We help learners express their current challenges attracting and retaining people who require flexibility, and to envision an ideal world where those needs can be met through flexi-time or flexi-place

    To articulate current situation and the desired future state where they work.


  • 4. Plan Your FWA Journey

    Workshop | 30 Minutes

    Learners examine the logical sequence of steps toward proposing, implementing, extending or formalizing flexible work arrangements at their organization, using checklists, spotting barriers, etc.

    To enable learners to prepare a roadmap for building workplace flexiblity.


  • 5. Gut Check and Next Steps

    Workshop | 30 Minutes

    We unplug and share how we feel about flexible work arrangements and the learning circle experience. Q&A and then time for next steps, including continued learning and planning. Funding is discussed.

    To prepare learners to maintain and build momentum, share learnings back at work, build expertise, and take the next concrete steps toward improving workplace flexibility.


Professionals

Thomas Farmer
Owner, Freelance Total Rewards Pte Ltd (Singapore)

Unique combination of corporate and consulting experience in total rewards and global mobility, both in the U.S. and in Asia. Running an independent management consultancy serving both local employers as well as global MNCs.

Over 15 years management level corporate experience in total rewards and global mobility including five years senior executive experience as Vice President Compensation and Benefits at the world's largest hotel company, first for the Americas, then for Asia Pacific. Both global and regional experience in high-tech, semiconductor, manufacturing and service industries.

Over seven years combined consulting experience with Hewitt and Mercer, at the senior/principal level, having sold and delivered more than US $5 million in compensation and mobility-related initiatives for over 100 clients, including Coca-Cola, General Electric, Verizon, CapitalOne, The Home Depot, MeadJohnson Nutrition, Synovus, Wachovia, Northrop Grumman Shipping Systems, Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae, Western Digital, Sunrise Senior Living and many others.

Specialties: Total rewards strategy, alignment and integration; expatriate management, talent mobility localisation of rewards, compensation, benefits, incentives and performance management. Custom training solutions for HR leaders, senior management teams and line managers.

What I do best: I can concieve and deliver highly effective and sustainable solutions for attracting and retaining talent, including global deployment of expatriates and non-local talent. I have a solid track record of accomplishments that last, improve employee engagement and control costs.


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Freelance Total Rewards

Freelance Total Rewards is an ASEAN-based centre of excellence for total rewards, offering consulting and learning in the area of compensation, benefits as well as important intangible rewards such as work-life support, recognition and growth. Founded in 2013 by Thomas A. Farmer, CCP, SPHR, ACTA, the firm serves clients primarily in Singapore and Southeast Asia, as well as China and the U.S.

The ASEAN Total Rewards institute is a Southeast Asia learning and certification initiative offering three levels of certification.

Tom has consulted mega-MNCs such as the The Coca-Cola Company, General Electric and Sinopec. He has also consulted companies as small as 10 people, on pay issues. In all, Tom has consulted over 150 companies on base pay, incentive design, job evaluation, health benefits, flexible work arrangements, annual salary review, global mobility, regional and global harmonization and many other topics.

His firm consists entirely of freelance consultants, working virtually.