The Flexible Workplace—Strategies for Your Organization
Certification Course: W2

Heighten Employee and Organizational Effectiveness

This course provides participants with the fundamentals of workplace flexibility and presents a process for building a flexible workplace to maximize employee and organizational effectiveness. You’ll discuss specific examples of practices in the workplace flexibility category and learn how workplace flexibility solutions may be successfully implemented. On the third morning, an optional certification exam covers the context of this course.

• Gain an understanding of the concepts and components of total rewards
• Examine workplace flexibility and various flexibility approaches
• Learn how to conduct a discovery to determine the issues and identify the root causes
• Discuss how to create and present an effective business case for workplace flexibility
• Explore critical issues for implementation

Who Should Attend

This course is intended for human resources professionals and business leaders with an interest in and responsibility for work-life programs that are designed to attract, motivate and retain employees.

What You Will Learn

Total Rewards and Workplace Flexibility

• Total rewards
• Work-life as a strategy
• Workplace flexibility
• Approaches for achieving workplace flexibility

Identifying Issues and Root Causes

• Business indicators
• Gathering data to identify flexibility issues, needs and root causes
• Approaches for scanning the external environment
• Analyzing and packaging qualitative and quantitative data

Identifying Potential Solutions

• Components of an effective business case
• Presenting an effective business case

Developing and Implementing Solutions

• The workplace flexibility team
• Keys areas of an action plan
• Solution considerations
• Issues critical to a successful implementation

Evaluating the Solutions

• Evaluating the success of the workplace flexibility solution
• Presenting the evaluation data
• Continuous improvement for workplace flexibility solutions

	Credits WLCP: Required Certificate in Work-Life: Required Recertification: 2 course, .5 exam; CEUs: 1.5 course, .3 exam PHR/SPHR/GPHR recertification hours: 16
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