Carpe Diem! Seize the moment and be a changemaker!
NAWO - In Conversation
Welcome to Episode 2 of the 2020 Series. “Disruption affects the default” Anneli Blundell. There is no need to state the bleeding obvious. We find ourselves in challenging, tumultuous and uncertain times. But as Winston Churchill once said “One should never waste a good crisis”. Now is the time to proactively leverage the disruption and embrace the positive personal and systemic change that has been brought about by this public health crisis. Carpe Diem – Seize the moment! This conversation was borne out of a passionate phone conversation between Anneli and I and...
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Beat Gender Bias with Dr Karen Morley
NAWO - In Conversation
Welcome to Episode 1 of the 2020 Series. “The compelling logic for increased diversity is because it increases performance” Dr Karen Morley. We can now access research from a range of credible sources that have a diverse workforce, and an inclusive work culture provides tangible and measurable benefits to organisations, teams and individuals. But why is progress so slow? NAWO member companies join NAWO because of a commitment to achieving a greater gender balance in operations, yet the WGEA data informs us that we still have quite some way to go. In this podcast I...
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Fabian Dattner – Living with and leading through complexity - Chapter 2 of 2
NAWO - In Conversation
In this episode I have the pleasure of speaking with the incredible Fabian Dattner from the The Dattner Group. Fabian has so much passion for the topic of this conversation – Living with Complexity – and so our discussion focuses on how to lead through complexity as well. There was so much to cover that we have actually split this podcast into two chapters. You can listen to chapter 1 on the way to work and chapter 2 on the way home! Fabian Dattner is recognised globally for her advocacy for women with a STEMM background (science, technology, engineering, maths and medicine), leading for...
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Fabian Dattner – Living with and leading through complexity - Chapter 1 of 2
NAWO - In Conversation
In this episode I have the pleasure of speaking with the incredible Fabian Dattner from The Dattner Group. Fabian has so much passion for the topic of this conversation – Living with Complexity – and so our discussion focuses on how to lead through complexity as well. There was so much to cover that we have actually split this podcast into two chapters. You can listen to chapter 1 on the way to work and chapter 2 on the way home! Fabian Dattner is recognised globally for her advocacy for women with a STEMM background (science, technology, engineering, maths and medicine), leading for the...
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Self – Efficacy: Taking the conversation beyond confidence
NAWO - In Conversation
With and . The whole confidence myth - is it time it was busted! Our guests in this podcast say yes and they take two different angles on this topic. Professor Amalia Di Iorio explains how self-efficacy is the key to increased female participation on boards and executive level roles. We discuss the four constituent parts of self-efficacy and how important it is for us as women to seek these four component parts for ourselves and how critical it is for organisations to support their female talent in these 4 constituent parts to better enable success; Experiencing small successes...
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24/7 flexibility at Pepsico!
NAWO - In Conversation
In this episode we are delighted to speak with two leaders form the Pepsico business, from the Tingalpa snack foods facility in Queensland, where they are having great success in extending flexible work options to their shift based teams. Instilling a flexible work culture has been a journey for Pepsico across all their functions, and they have pretty much nailed it, with their ‘One Simple thing’ approach to conversations around flexible work requests earning them a WGEA Employer of Choice Citation this year. Jason Webster, Senior Supply Chain Leader and Plant Manager at...
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Are you future Fit?
NAWO - In Conversation
In this episode I have the pleasure of speaking with the enigmatic Andrea Clarke. Around 400 NAWO members complete her Communicating with Authority program and there have been many spectacular success stories from participants who have reported greater confidence, career progression, and all round greater control of their reputational capital…..we will talk a lot more about this in the podcast. Andrea runs an organisation called CareerCEO. You can find out all about it at . Andrea together with her colleagues Belinda Wall and Jennifer Adams, have been facilitating their program...
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Leading with Authenticity Knowing Thy Self
NAWO - In Conversation
One of NAWO’s key learning priorities is Authentic Leadership and the NAWO network provides many opportunities for people to better understand and explore this concept. We are introducing another opportunity for NAWO members to embrace their authentic selves at an even deeper level, with the introduction of Mim Bartlett’s Change Up Program in 2019. Ian and I were lucky enough to participate in this program last year and we took away many insightful learnings about ourselves and others and made many new friends through the experience. What I came to fully understand, is that authentic...
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Engaging the hearts and minds of men in gender balance
NAWO - In Conversation
In this episode I speak with two members of our NAWO board Simon Bromell and Marcus Hooke about engaging the hearts and minds of men in gender balance. Simon and Marcus bring a wealth of leadership experience to this conversation and importantly, a male perspective to the topic. Simon is the Group General Manager Operations for the Beverages Division of Orora Ltd, and Marcus is the Executive General Manager Production for News Corp. Simon and Marcus share their own personal motivations for actively leading toward more inclusive work cultures and share their insights for better engaging...
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Do you need a Nanager?!
NAWO - In Conversation
I vividly recall the challenges involved in navigating childcare and have to say I took a different approach with each of our three children. My girls experienced childcare, family day care, nannies and after school care and sometimes mixtures of all of them! All forms of childcare have their advantages and disadvantages – for both parents and children, and weighing up all the options to come up with the best solution or your family is a complex task fraught with high emotion! With the primary objective being the best care for your child, there is also the overlay of financial capacity, and...
info_outlineIn this episode we are delighted to speak with two leaders form the Pepsico business, from the Tingalpa snack foods facility in Queensland, where they are having great success in extending flexible work options to their shift based teams. Instilling a flexible work culture has been a journey for Pepsico across all their functions, and they have pretty much nailed it, with their ‘One Simple thing’ approach to conversations around flexible work requests earning them a WGEA Employer of Choice Citation this year.
Jason Webster, Senior Supply Chain Leader and Plant Manager at Tingalpa and Stephanie Ridge, HR Manager for the site, share their approach to flexibility on site and give examples of how well it is working for their people and their operation.
At NAWO we are passionate about Flexibility because we know it is a key enabler of increasing female participation in the workplace, however what is beautiful about enabling flexibility in your workplace is it benefits everyone, regardless of gender and the Pepsico example really demonstrates this. Attracting a diverse workforce to shift based teams requires businesses to look critically at the overall package they are provide to employees, to attract them into the business and retain them. Pepsico’s experience proves that shift work can provide very interesting opportunities for flexibility if there is a willingness to consider different models, think laterally and invest in skills development across teams.
Key Learnings:
- A workplace culture of trust is a pre-requisite to successful implementation of flexible work
- Principle-based leadership and reference to clear principles directly applicable to flexible work requests is vital as the foundation for encouraging requests for flexible work and having open and honest conversations about how they can be accommodated
- An investment in cross training/skills development for front line team members is integral to enabling flexible options
- Positive role modelling of the behaviours around flexibility, in line with principles, from leaders is extremely important
- Clearly articulating the level of flexibility that can be enabled for particular roles and job classifications (e.g low, moderate and high flex roles) manages expectations from the outset
- There are huge benefits to implementing this approach to flexible work for sites with long tenure in regard to transition to retirement
- Extending opportunities for flexibility beyond traditional parameters (i.e. part time or casual work for mothers returning from leave) provides enormous retention opportunities for all employees (studying, transitioning to retirement, sporting commitments, parenting, elder care, commuting problems, faith etc)
Attached here is a Linked In article I have written reflecting on principle-based leadership - what it is and why it matters and a short slide deck providing some example principles specific to enabling flexibility.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/principle-based-leadership-what-why-matters-louise-weine/