Job Sharing: Redesign Your Job

Redesign Your Job into a Job Sharing Arrangement:
A Pre-Proposal Planning Exercise

All the work/life balance experts agree: The proven, most effective way to get approval to job share is to make your request with a written proposal outlining the details of your redesigned work arrangement.

The planning steps below get you started. Print out this page and complete the crucial pre-proposal preparation so you can insert the custom portions of your proposal.

Ready? Start the steps.

Step 1. List the various work functions of your current position. Be thorough; use rich, detailed descriptions related to your job role. (This reminds your manager and others who may review your proposal how you are contributing to the organization.) Draw on your official job description and keep a work log to aid you.

Step 2. For each job function, decide with your prospective job sharing partner if it will be:

A—A shared responsibility;

B—A responsibility that one or the other of you will fully manage; or,

C—A divided responsibility (shared, but quantified; see Sample Proposal in Job Sharing Flex Success).

Be sensitive to matching functions with individual talents and skills. Also, be fair in splitting up interesting work and less challenging yet necessary tasks.

Step 3. Take the results from Step 2 and group the job functions together by letter. Then insert your results into the format found below the introduction paragraph in the “B. Job Responsibilities” section of the Job Sharing Flex Success Proposal Template. <http://workoptions.com/flexsucc-js.htm>

If you want to complete your proposal ASAP, order Job Sharing Flex Success Proposal Template. It could be on your computer in about six minutes from now, customized in about an hour, and ready to present to your manager by tomorrow.

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