Job Size — Belinda Morgan

Welcome to another Flexible Success newsletter. Each edition includes a tip, a quote, a question and an interesting read - all related to part-time and flexible work. It's designed to be quick and easy to digest, and to provide you with some food for thought for the week ahead.

Theme: Job Size

A TIP

Are you working part-time but essentially doing a full-time role? Is your employer unsure how to fix this, and looking to you to come up with the solution?

Have you considered these options?

Freeing up some time by significantly reducing the number and length of meetings you attend each week
Identifying elements of your role that don't add much value and can be dropped or done differently (most of us have some of these)
Empowering your direct reports to take on greater responsibility
Proposing you find a job share partner to split your role with

(Notice that 'becoming more efficient' is not on the list?! In my experience most part-timers are already operating at high levels of efficiency, so this is rarely a realistic solution.)

A QUOTE

"If you can't fit everything you want to do within your work week, you need to get better at picking what to do, not working longer hours." ― Jason Fried & David Hansson, 'It Doesn't Have to be Crazy at Work'

A QUESTION

Is there an element of your role that, if handed to someone else in your organisation, would be an excellent growth opportunity for that person?

AN INTERESTING READ

This article from Beam provides some very practical advice to an organisation looking to make a full-time marketing manager role into a part-time role. There are some especially good lessons in here about what to do with the work that no longer fits within the new role scope:
- Step 1: Make sure this work is still the right work
- Step 2: Look to your current employees
- Step 3: Use this as a hiring opportunity

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