Employees with families are increasingly looking for family-friendly working conditions when job hunting.
easyfaM®, the experts in family organization, offer family-conscious employers a revolutionary approach—regardless of company size and number of hierarchy levels—true to the motto: When things run smoothly at home, there’s more time and energy—maybe even for more responsibility at work… With flexible online training for parents and modern, agile tools for organizing family life at home, easyfaM solutions promise “more time and less arguing” both privately and professionally.
Family-friendly companies want to ease the load on employees with younger children (in their private lives) so it’s easier for them to combine family and work more smoothly. The better parents manage this, the higher their motivation and satisfaction—which has an impact on the entire team at work. At the same time, the company becomes more attractive in the competition for skilled workers, because family-friendliness is becoming a hard location and competitive factor.
“The potential our solutions offer companies is enormous: more balance for mothers and fathers, fewer sick days and absences, and more time and energy for their professional work. Especially for moms, it’s a great opportunity to reconcile family and career more easily,” says easyfaM founder Christian Eineder. Family stress keeps many employees from pursuing careers, he adds.
With easyfaM, companies can create better conditions for families. easyfaM tools bring modern working methods into family life in a playful way—and with great success. Parents proudly take these positive experiences back into the company. They help shape new ways of working and, together, change the communication culture. Many fears of change dissolve on their own. “We see that working parents in the easyfaM program can often bring along colleagues who are less open to change more easily than the boss can,” Eineder says, describing his experience.
The practical implementation looks like this: the company provides its employees with private access to the easyfaM online training. Parents use the coaching and methods at home flexibly, whenever they have time—lovingly adapted for families by the two easyfaM founders, Heidi and Christian Eineder.
The methods include, for example, the BOFF feedback model and the four-sides communication square to improve conversation and communication culture. easyfaM also provides tips on good manners for children and teenagers, shares strategies in the area of time management (mindset, routines, tricks, tools, etc.), gives guidance on brain-friendly visualization and structuring (mind mapping), and teaches everyday organization tips based on the Lean Management 5S method (for example, keeping a student’s desk tidy).
Parents learn how to make goal agreements with teenagers work using “SMART” (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, Timed), and how they can organize workshops at home—without arguments and in a sustainable way—on sensitive topics such as “media consumption and phone time.” “We’re always open to additional topics,” says Christian Eineder, encouraging companies to get involved in the key issues.
Using Kanban boards, which are used in many agile industrial processes, also makes it easier to organize everyday family life at home. easyfaM calls this the family Kanban board “Taskboard”. Christian Eineder explains: “When companies provide parents with Taskboards, the following usually happens: At home, parents and children try out the agile methods in a playful way and use them to organize everyday tasks. Dparents then take these experiences back into the company and vice versa—creating a dynamic that benefits both sides.”
Christian Eineder advises those responsible in HR departments and in corporate health management on how to successfully establish the program in their company.
Copyright cover photo Maus & Mouse: “Erfolgsfaktor Familie” network office