FINDING OPPORTUNITY IN ALL THIS UNCERTAINTY! SEPT 2020
“Sistr has teamed up with ACAS as part of our Covid Campaign to support working women and help us make sense of all things furlough, redundancy and dealing with these difficult times at work.
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About this Event
Whether you’re an employee or an employer, 2020 hasn’t exactly been an easy one so we’re putting on this brilliant session with expert Susan Raftery to give you the facts and help you understand what you need to know.
Not only that, but we’ll be hearing from sistr Nicole Yershon, our secret weapon in turning uncertainty into opportunity. She’s made her name by shaking things up and she’s the perfect person to help us see the positives in change. Let’s move forward together sistrs and help each other find opportunity in all this uncertainty!
In this workshop we'll cover:
End of furlough:
· Returning to the workplace
· Working from home
Difficult times:
· Changing employment terms and conditions
· Alternatives to redundancy (it’s not all bad)
Redundancy:
· What is redundancy?
· Redundancy consultation
· Discrimination issues
· Employees’ rights
Advantage from Disruption:
· How to shift your mindset to see disruption as opportunity
· Connecting the dots you may not have even realised are there
· Stories and case studies from Nicole’s career (brace yourself, they’re good!)
· Sparking creativity for the next chapter in your adventure
About sistr
Sistr is a free resource focused on supporting women at work. We’re on a mission to build a world full of connection, collaboration and professional growth to really make some magic happen. It's where we can share, collaborate, mentor, support and learn from our sistrs. No matter what industry we’re in, we all have wisdom and ways we can help each other and supporting one another has never been more important than it is right now! Choose sistrhood over competition, spread the word and help us change the working world for women everywhere. If you're not already part of the amazing sistr community join us for free here.
About Susan
Susan Raftery is an experienced ACAS Senior Advisor, working with organisations in-house to support their bespoke needs on employment advice, culture and behaviour change and how to effectively manage mental health in the workplace. Susan also regularly runs all sorts of training for employers and HR professionals on a range of employment practices. Before working for Acas Susan was a qualified solicitor, advising clients on a wide variety of employment law issues and represented clients in Employment Tribunals, Employment Appeal Tribunals and both the Court of Appeal and Supreme Court.
About ACAS
ACAS is the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service. We work with millions of employers and employees every year to improve workplace relationships. We're an independent public body that receives funding from the government. We provide free and impartial advice to employers, employees and their representatives on employment rights, best practice and policies and resolving workplace conflict. When things go wrong, we help to resolve workplace disputes between employers and employees.
About Nicole
Nicole is the Founder and CEO of NY Collective. She is one of the Drum’s 25 Women Who Shaped The Digital Industry in the last 25 Years and Wired Magazine’s Top 100, the first annual survey of Britain’s Digital Power brokers. She was the Founder of Ogilvy Labs and is a best selling author of 'Rough Diamond: Turning Disruption into Advantage in Business and Life'. She’s the perfect person to have in your corner when you need to turn things round and brings a no-nonsense, mischievous and totally positive approach to everything she does.
Just a few of the clients she has worked with over recent years include Danone, Havas, Amex, IBM, Ravensbourne University, BP, London Business School, E&Y, Accenture, Pfizer and many more.
Has being disruptive always come naturally to you and do you think we all have an inner disruptor in us?
I’m not. Everyone is different to begin with. But schools and rules wear ‘difference’ out of us. They churn out conformists.
I just question things…. and I saw that in my son, which is why he was going to be expelled every month! they wanted him to sit there for 8 hours and say nothing…. but we have a habit of asking why… until it makes sense to us… and you cant respond with ‘because i said so’… we just don’t do well with that Victoriana approach - we need to test and learn and see what works and why it doesn’t - because perhaps it may work and be better! someone’s got to try? its painful and we don’t want to be like that….
In these times of change lots of people will need to take a situation and see the rough diamond in it. What are your tips to help them do that and see things differently?
A strong sense of self… I worked on myself, understood my strengths and weaknesses, once you know that, then there is a truth and honesty in everything you do. you can be trusted because you trust yourself and dont second guess and wonder if you’re wrong… you stop doing 2+2=5!
“The Non-conformist & Fearless Manifesto…. ”
