Shifts Happen

Scott Erwin & Lucy Whittington

HireHand helps people powered businesses build the perfect bench of bank staff by using intelligent matching to fill dropped shifts from an internal workforce. Scott Erwin, CEO and Founder, and Lucy Whittington, Head of Marketing, had really interesting conversations with CEOs, workforce planners, chief operating officers and other people involved in managing shifts and team and realized that these conversations have value and could really be useful out there. And that’s when Shifts Happen – happened. Our aim is to pull out what’s working and bring you real examples and case studies along with ideas to get you thinking about how to make shifts happen in your own business and organization. This podcast focuses on how to build your own bank and staff, how to switch from static staffing and move to a dynamic staffing model, how to handle increased demand for flexible working with growing great teams, how to manage changes to everything that impacts your workforce, the economy environment demand, how to handle the future of work and what to expect when the unexpected hits you. We look forward to being in your ears and making shifts happen. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Season 1

  1. EPISODE 4

    Episode #4: Vaccination Kickstarts Collaboration and a Flexible Team - with Dr. Richard Berkley

    Welcome to Episode #3 of Shifts Happen with Dr. Richard Berkley MBChB, DCH. Dr. Berkley has been a Partner and GP at The Orchard Medical Centre since 1995. He went to Medical School and Post Graduate Training in Sheffield and qualified in 1991. He has also gained experience from working abroad in India and New Zealand. Since 2019 he has been Clinical Director of Network 4 Primary Care Network representing over 68,000 patients in a group of 4 practices in Bristol and South Glos. In this episode, Dr. Berkley and I talk about: ·        Plan for the long term even if something appears to be a short term ‘urgent’ response (turns out the vaccine rollout won’t be short term but it may have looked like that at the start) - short term goodwill won’t build long term sustainability ·        Build something ‘outside’ of business as usual with additional staff that can support existing staff to form a flexible pool you can use ongoing - this will prevent burnout of your current staff who may be able to help short term but in the long term that isn’t sustainable. ·        Think ‘flexible’ from the outset - find volunteers and hire part time staff who can complete shorter, more manageable shifts instead of hiring full time. ·        Where possible manage supply… use stock effectively, keep shifts short and manageable and from a big enough pool of workers so you can keep the ‘factory’ open every day. ·        Look at what new opportunities this brings - while the initial effort may have been significant and hard (financial figuring out, legal landscape to navigate, IT to set up) now it’s done, look ahead to where this new collaboration across teams can help everyone. Fuelled by urgency, look at the long-term benefits too. Learn more about the content discussed in this episode: ·        Connect with Dr. Berkey via LinkedIn here.   Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    40 min
  2. SEASON 1 TRAILER

    Trailer for Episode #4: Vaccination Kickstarts Collaboration and a Flexible Team

    Welcome to the trailer for Episode #4: Vaccination Kickstarts Collaboration and a Flexible Team of Shifts Happen with Dr. Richard Berkley, a Partner and a GP at The Orchard Medical Centre since 1995. In this episode, we will be talking about: Plan for the long term even if something appears to be a short term ‘urgent’ response (turns out the vaccine rollout won’t be short term but it may have looked like that at the start) - short term goodwill won’t build long term sustainabilityBuild something ‘outside’ of business as usual with additional staff that can support existing staff to form a flexible pool you can use ongoing - this will prevent burnout of your current staff who may be able to help short term but in the long term that isn’t sustainable.Think ‘flexible’ from the outset - find volunteers and hire part time staff who can complete shorter, more manageable shifts instead of hiring full time. Where possible manage supply… use stock effectively, keep shifts short and manageable and from a big enough pool of workers so you can keep the ‘factory’ open every day.Look at what new opportunities this brings - while the initial effort may have been significant and hard (financial figuring out, legal landscape to navigate, IT to set up) now it’s done, look ahead to where this new collaboration across teams can help everyone. Fueled by urgency, look at the long term benefits too. Let's make shifts happen! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    1 min

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HireHand helps people powered businesses build the perfect bench of bank staff by using intelligent matching to fill dropped shifts from an internal workforce. Scott Erwin, CEO and Founder, and Lucy Whittington, Head of Marketing, had really interesting conversations with CEOs, workforce planners, chief operating officers and other people involved in managing shifts and team and realized that these conversations have value and could really be useful out there. And that’s when Shifts Happen – happened. Our aim is to pull out what’s working and bring you real examples and case studies along with ideas to get you thinking about how to make shifts happen in your own business and organization. This podcast focuses on how to build your own bank and staff, how to switch from static staffing and move to a dynamic staffing model, how to handle increased demand for flexible working with growing great teams, how to manage changes to everything that impacts your workforce, the economy environment demand, how to handle the future of work and what to expect when the unexpected hits you. We look forward to being in your ears and making shifts happen. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.