Work-life balance, time management or flexibility at work are essential aspects for every company today. When summer arrives, this is accentuated: employees with children need more hours to take care of them and everyone wants more freedom to enjoy the vacations or the good weather.

Work paradigms have changed, the needs of teams are different and companies must take steps towards a transformation in line with the 21st century. Do you want to know more about it and learn about some activities to move in the right direction? Keep on reading.

Time management and flexibility at work: the company of the future

In 2019, when digital transformation is a reality and millions of people work interconnected without the need to be in the same space, many companies maintain the structure and practices that were set in the industrial era.

In order to align the demands of teams, who are increasingly aware of the need for work-life balance, with the objectives of companies and the current environment, a real transformation towards the company of the future is necessary.

This is the thesis of Peter Thompsonone of the world's leading specialists in remote team management, flexible work and corporate culture. The author of Future Work, which he co-wrote with Alison Maitland, points out three essential keys to these objectives:

• Autonomousemployees, which means empowering workers to make their own decisions. This provides high motivation, generates a sense of belonging to the company and allows talent to develop. Employees are treated as adults, choose when or where they work and gain control over their own lives.
• Virtual teams, with employees working collaboratively without the need to be in the same space. The technologies enable the sharing of ideas and progress by facilitating communication. However, face-to-face meetings are valuable, to be held occasionally to assess the status of projects. As an example of this objective, a pioneering company is Happy Force, which has successfully implemented virtual and remote work.
• Value results over attendance hours. At a time when agile methodologies, project work and SMART objectives are spreading, we must tend to reward for meeting objectives and reducing time. This is called "culture of reduced hours" and aims to increase productivity, breaking with the classic office in which there are workers who extend the working day just to meet the schedule.

The future is now: activities to start the transformation

At Ready for People we are aware of the difficulty of changing structures such as companies and modifying corporate habits acquired over decades. For this reason, we have specialized activities aimed at professional teams to facilitate these changes. Here are two of them!

The first is 7 rules for 7 daysa practical workshop in which the 7 key concepts for time management, such as prioritization, are covered. Through group dynamics and exercises, participants understand the importance of these changes and get the tools they need.

The second is Do you reconcile or do you renounce? and deals precisely with the difficulty of changing habits and beliefs in order to teach people that it is possible. This interactive workshop revolves around the conciliation and rationalization of schedules, so that people learn to rationalize their time and increase their productivity.

Are you interested in improving your team's time management? Do you want to start transforming your company and align it with today's reality? At Ready for People you will find these and other experiences to provide the training and tools your team needs.