Jobshare Stories

Episode 30: Building relationships, building resilience and building a brand with People Directors Jenny Allen and Laura Smith

Jenny and Laura are the Co-Directors of People at Leeds Community Health Care Trust and the Leeds GP Confederation. Their jobshare has stood the test of time - having come together over 8 years ago and still going strong! 

In this episode we talk about how jobshare enabled them to step up to Director and gave both them and the organisation increased resilience. They also talk about the importance of building your brand as a jobshare - and how coaching supported them to build their relationship, evolve their role and leverage their respective skills and strengths.

A must listen for anyone who wants to be inspired by power partnership and the potential of working in a different way.

#Jobshare #PowerPartTimers #PowerPartnership #Resilience #HRDirector #PeopleDirector #PeopleLeader  #FutureOf Work 

Episode 29: Is Co Leadership the Future of Work?

Is Co Leadership the Future of work and what impact could it have on your organisation?
 
In today’s podcast, we’re speaking to Stefanie Junghans; certified organisational developer, coach, and co-leadership expert. Stefanie has “walked the talk”, having shared two leadership roles herself before launching her consultancy to help organisations rethink how they lead.

We dive into how co-leadership can build more resilient, agile and future-ready workplaces - supporting an ageing workforce, meeting the needs of a new generation, and helping people do meaningful work without sacrificing personal goals.
Stefanie shines a light on the potential of co-leadership whilst also highlighting the need to be intentional in your approach.

✔️ Support line managers to sell the case
✔️ Build the culture to champion pairs
✔️ Coach leaders to channel their energy into impact not admin
 
This is a brilliant episode for those of you curious about navigating the world of co-leadership.
 
#TheJobshareRevolution #JobshareStories #Leadership #CoLeadership #FutureOfWork #WorkplaceInnovation #AgileLeadership

 

Stefanie's website:

www.junghans.consulting

Stefanie's book:

https://junghans.consulting/en-co-leadership-das-buch

Episode 28: Learning, earning and sharing! How jobsharing whilst studying accelerated two careers.

At the start of the new academic year in the UK, we're highlighting the power of jobsharing to facilitate studying! We're joined on today's podcast episode by a trail blazing pair who jobshared whilst studying undergraduate and masters degrees. 

Abby Murphy and Georgia Hyland talk articulately about how much jobsharing supported them and their organisation, early in their careers. Specifically, jobsharing:

• supported their upskilling and onboarding into a new role
• created effective succession 
• enabled them to earn and learn professionally whilst studying
• created a lifelong friendship

This episode is a shining example of jobsharing across all life stages and a real eye opener on the power of partnership throughout your career.

#TheJobshareRevolution #JobshareStories #FlexibleWorkingWorks #CreativeSolutions #PartTimePower #ProjectManagement #Innovation

Episode 27 : Thinking creatively to use jobsharing as a workforce solution for the rapidly changing workplace with Julia Staudt and Anna Schak

Julia and Anna are an ambitious, driven jobsharing partnership who started out on their jobsharing journey 7 years ago.  After progressing as a partnership in a large German corporate, they now freelance together supporting jobsharers throughout their end to end journey.  Having active experience of jobsharing, whilst also being change and transformation experts by profession they are well placed to coach and support jobshare partnerships.

In this episode, Julia and Anna talk about how thinking creatively in the way you deploy jobshares can help solve multiple challenges for an organisation and how thinking flexibly can help an organisation supercharge their performance and retain diverse talent. 
They also talk about the importance of investing in jobshare partnerships from outset to ensure maximum chances of success. 

To find out more about the work that Julia & Anna do, check out: 

Julia's business : https://staudtconsulting.de/

Pair to Share : https://www.pairtoshare.com/

Jobsharing Hub: https://www.jobsharing-hub.de/

 

Episode 26: Lessons from a serial jobsharer - with Jo Nicol & Kate Roberts - Head of Finance at Leeds University Business School

In this week's episode we talk to Jo Nicol - finance leader and serial jobsharer. Jo is in the somewhat unique position of having shared with 4 different jobshare partners over a period of almost 15 years. Having worked full time, part-time and as a jobshare, Jo talks about the impact of jobsharing on her life and how jobsharing enabled her to fulfil her work and home ambitions. She also talks about the transitions between jobshare partners, recruiting for jobshare partners and how to build relationships before, during and after a jobshare. 

 

We're also joined by her current jobshare partner Kate Roberts, who shares her experience of joining Jo, having never jobshared before, and how that impacted her integration into the role and supercharged her induction! 

 

#TheJobshareRevolution #JobshareStories #FlexibleWorkingWorks #CoLeadership #WomenInFinance #PowerPartnership

 

Episode 25: Successfully Progressing as a Partnership with Hannah Essex & Claire Walker

Hannah Essex and Claire Walker are Co - CEOs of Society of London Theatre & UK Theatre. Theirs is a longstanding partnership having come together initially at Teach First before progressing to being Co-Executive Directors at the British Chambers of Commerce before moving to their current role.

In this episode, they talk about their journey of progressing as a partnership, including sharing some great tips for navigating the recruitment process together.  They also talk about the power of jobsharing for increasing resilience and in particular how this helped in some of the most challenging times in history through Brexit and during the pandemic. The episode also delves into the power of co-leadership and how jobsharing enables better decision making and ultimately a better outcome for the organisation.

#TheJobshareRevolution #JobshareStories #FlexibleWorkingWorks #CoLeadership #Resilience #PowerPartnership

Episode 24: Someone has to be the first person to try something new….so go for it!!

Karen Hutchinson and Francesca Berry are Partners in the Commercial Litigation department at Stewarts.  After coming together as a pair on a trial basis over 8 years ago, they have since been promoted twice as a pair, firstly to Legal Directors and then to Partners.

In this episode, they talk about the process of applying for partnership together, why their clients are overwhelmingly positive about their jobshare arrangement and how jobsharing has been a gamechanger for them both - giving them the ability to separate and prioritise their work and personal lives.

Episode 23 - Promoting good work through the power of jobsharing - featuring Rowan Aust and Michelle Reynolds from Reeltime Media

Rowan Aust and Michelle Reynolds are determined to change the TV industry. In this episode we talk about how ReelTime Media researches and creates "good work" - that pays well and contributes to worker wellbeing as well as organisational outcomes. Jobsharing is a core part of this and at ReelTime Media, they're innovating in collaboration with ScreenSkills to create jobsharing partnership to transform how work is done right across the TV industry.

But this episode goes even deeper, exploring the world of work and how jobsharing can create a world of increased attentiveness and care for employees.