A scorecard for flexible leadership teams
👥 Who:
Leadership teams, People & Culture, Diversity & Inclusion
🕒 Time:
1-2 hours. More if you need to do a survey. Depends how big your organisation is!
💡 Bonus:
This will contribute to WGEA’s employer of choice citation
This is your chance to establish leadership targets for flexible work.
Make it public to declare your organisation’s intent around flexibility — and encourage and recognise leaders who flex.
Fill in performance metrics that make sense to your organisation!
Flexible role models
Suggested performance metrics
Measures
1 or more = pass
Numerous examples = great
Number of senior leaders working part-time (or job share)
50% = pass
100% = great
Proportion of senior leaders who work from home frequently
50% = pass
100% = great
Proportion of senior leaders who work non-traditional hours and openly celebrate how they are spending time outside work
Diverse take-up of flexibility (ie. not just women)
30% = pass
50% = great
Employee perceptions
Suggested performance metrics
Measures
Employees see examples of their own selves in the senior leadership team: with diverse representation and working in different ways
The majority do = pass
90% do = great
Employees perceive that senior leaders work flexibly
(Tip: to measure this, introduce questions in your employee engagement survey such as “Senior Leaders in our organisation role model workplace flexibility”)
70% = pass
90% = great