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How to Flex: Creating Flexible Practice for All
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How to Flex: Creating Flexible Practice for All

How to Flex: Creating Flexible Practice for All

2 Formal CPD Points

Available on demand

Overview

Flexible working arrangements are essential to achieving gender equity in the workplace. 
What are the challenges, what works, what doesn’t, and how have other practices implemented flexible conditions for their staff? These are some of the questions to be discussed and debated at this entertaining and informative roundtable discussion. 

CPD

This presentation is equivalent to 2 hours/points of formal CPD and will deliver outcomes related to the following Competency/s from the National Standard of Competency for Architects:

2015 Competencies:

Practice Management 
9.1 Knowledge and implementation of appropriate practice model to ensure efficient, effective and ethical professional service.
9.2 Knowledge and application of practice resources required to ensure efficient and effective professional service. 
9.6 Knowledge and application of professional ethics and ethical practices in respect to practice management and provision of professional service.

2021 Competencies:

Practice Management and Professional Conduct:
PC 2 Implement practice resources and apply ethical employment practice methods and quality assurance systems to facilitate efficient, consistent and timely delivery of architectural services. 

 


 


Learning Outcomes

At the end of this session participants should be able to:

  • Create a positive office culture through a long term commitment to flexible workplace practices
  • List key tips for implementing gender equity and flexibility in your workplace
  • Recognise how a diverse and flexible workplace is rewarding and a good investment for your Practice
  • Identify pitfalls associated with flexible workplaces and minimise these risks to ensure the arrangement is mutually beneficial for your Practice and your employees
     


Speaker

    MISTY WATERS

    Associate at Bespoke Careers

    A trained architect who worked in practice for a number of years. She then moved into architectural practice management culminating as a Practice Manager at Bates Smart a position she held for 9 years. Misty offers a unique perspective gained from an internal management roles gained in practice but also now an ‘external’ view where she works with many of the industry’s practices. She has a strong understanding of all aspects of recruitment, resourcing, staff management, talent development and staff retention.

     
     
     


Speaker

    LEE HILLAM

    Director at Dunn & Hillam Architects

    A director of Sydney-based practice Dunn & Hillam Architects. Lee and her partner Ashley Dunn and two children live and work on the same plot of land in a house and a Dunn & Hillam Architects designed and built studio that face each other across the garden.  Dunn & Hillam Architects have a workplace policy that believes that the most architects needs to have a life outside the day to day production of architecture. All staff leave the office by 6pm, take all their holidays and work flexible part-time.

     
     
     
     


Speaker

    PATRICK KENNEDY

    Director, Kennedy Nolan Architects

    Patrick is a principal of Kennedy Nolan, established with Rachel Nolan in Melbourne in 1999.  Kennedy Nolan is an architecture practice which has established a strong reputation for making architecture with a distinct approach to built form and highly considered interiors and has been recognised by numerous design awards.

    The work of Kennedy Nolan is informed by the socially progressive aspects of modernism and seeks to engage with landscape and memory to engender meaningful relationships between people and their environments.

     
     
     
     


Speaker

    LEONE LORRIMER

    CEO of dwp|suters.
    Leone has over 25 years of experience as a major projects architect and strategic planner.  Her experience encompasses dense urban ‘cities’, resort residential, iconic buildings, business parks, workplaces and educational institutions.

     
     
     
     

Price

     

    Member

    $99.00

    Non Member

    $149.00

    SONA Member

    $39.00
 

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