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Empowering Managers to Implement Workplace Flexibility - Click To Read Article
During the past decade, a significant portion of work-life research has been dedicated to identifying and measuring the bottom-line benefits of workplace flexibility on an organization and its employees. Unfortunately, there has been little attention paid to the challenges managers face when working to integrate flexibility into their work groups. This article outlines the importance of equipping managers with the tools and training needed to successfully prepare for the mobile workforce and provides examples and resources your organization can begin using today.

Training Managers to Meet Business Goals Using Work-Life Strategies - Click To Read Article
Training managers to use work-life tools is essential in creating a supportive culture and ensuring that everyone at the manager level (and, thus, those they supervise) are on the same page. When managers apply work-life programs as direct business solutions to the common issues employees face everyday, they discover that they can reduce absenteeism, turnover, and realign their teams, which is particularly beneficial when it comes to talent and performance management. Instead of using traditional training programs for managers, the authors recommend a tool that they have created—the Manager’s Solution Forum. This accelerated learning approach engages participants from beginning to end which results in an increased level of understanding and utilization of work-life as a business strategy.

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About the Author: Kathy Kacher
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Kathy Kacher founded Career/Life Alliance Services (CLAS), Inc. in 1987, an organization dedicated to the development and integration of work/life effectiveness. During the past 20 years, Ms. Kacher has served many Fortune 500 companies delivering a breadth of work/life initiatives that range from dependent care to policy development and deployment. Ms. Kacher has been responsible for authoring several popular worklife tools, which include the nation's first online dependent care system, flexible work arrangement guidance and tracking system, and the newest offering, a virtual benefits fair. She is a faculty member at World at Work and participated in the creation of an interlocking suite of courses that will provide a certification process for the worklife professional. Along with her work at the AWLP she also facilitates a WorkLife Think Tank in the Twin Cities, which includes practitioners from the corporate, academic, and government sectors. The goal of the Think Tank is to have an informal, open forum that will provide an opportunity to do together what no one organization can do alone.

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