Kate Rodgers

Kate balances being COO for a workforce management software product with being an almost perfect human.

Her blogs and expertise are about efficiently handling three obnoxious children and a difficult 42-year-old who wrote this bio.

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What criteria do you use when choosing new software?

Pay peanuts and get monkeys. We recently moved house, we got quotes from ...

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Implementing Tech Saves Care Home Employees Time

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Dreading Work?

Dreading work? Do you find it hard getting on with some of your ...

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Are We Nearly There Yet?

Everyone loves the summer… long warm days… sunny evenings. It is just that ...

Wellbeing

How to Avoid the Summer Blues at Work

Everyone loves the summer; sunny days and long warm evenings. It is just ...

Performance & Culture

Let’s Hear It for the Stay-Cation!

Christmas is well and truly over, and attention has turned to holidays and ...

Wellbeing

Busyness

The Busyness Badge of Honour: “I’m so busy I did not even have ...

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Effective Staff Absence Planning

What can SME’s learn from Ryanair’s recent “Significant Management failure”*? What we learn ...

HR Insights

10 Ways You Know You Need a New Process at Work

The new year is a perfect opportunity to think about how things are ...

Wellbeing

Learning to Have Fun Again

After a recent family trip to Centre Parcs I felt exhilarated, relaxed and ...

Wellbeing

How to Have ‘the Perfectly Imperfect Christmas!’

We all put too much pressure on ourselves to have the most perfect ...

Wellbeing

Post Holiday Blues

Is it REALLY all over already? How to Avoid the Post-Holiday Blues? You ...

Performance & Culture

Not Enough Hours In The Day

Do you need more time, or would a better process help? I’m sure ...

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Better Business Process

Inaccurate client billing and timesheet submission – the true cost. Very few small businesses ...

Performance & Culture

How Do You Beat An Energy Slump

You have a deadline racing ever closer and you just can’t find the ...

Work-Life Balance. You are comfortable in your job and you are doing it well. You might be in the habit of arriving a little early and leaving a little late, you put your heart and soul into your job. You currently have domestic chores balanced between you and your partner, everything is running smoothly (Well, as smoothly as it can). YOU DECIDE TO START A FAMILY. SURELY IT WILL NOT CHANGE YOUR LIFE THAT MUCH? While on maternity leave you slip into the habit of doing all the washing, cleaning, cooking etc.. It's fine, you don't mind doing it, you are not working (!). But, how do you get the balance right if or when you return to work? If I know one thing, it's that all the working parents I know say they never have enough time. They constantly feel like they are having to juggle getting just enough done at work with being home on time to collect the kids from school and then get everything else done at home. SO, HOW DO YOU GET THE BALANCE RIGHT AND HAVE A HAPPY LIFE? It sounds simple and maybe a little patronising, but communication is the key. Be open and honest with you partner from the start. Discuss the jobs that need doing around the house and for the children and then sort out who can do what on which days. It sounds business like but it will save you feeling like you don't know what is going on or having any animosity building up between you and your partner. Talk to your boss about flexible working hours. Can you work it so that you can share school drop offs and pick-ups with your partner? That way you will keep some contact with school and you can share the rushing around. Set a time limit on how much work work you do on your days off. There is no point working part-time if you are going to spend your days off catching up on things you didn't have time to do when you were in the office. Get organised, would it help to plan a menu in advance and maybe do your food shopping online. Can you batch-cook a few meals to be put in the freezer for those really busy days? Finally, make time to be a couple. Life can be so hectic when you work and have a family that it ends up being all business. Find time once in a while to go out on a date. So, every new chapter in our lives comes with its own challenges. It is all about finding out how to make it work for you and your family. Why not sit down with a glass of wine, your family calendar, some paper and marker pens and get chatting. Oh, and don't forget to plan that date night too! Why not take the 14 day Alpaka trial, and find out how using a collaborative work calendar can increase awareness and remove the guess work from team work. Alpaka has features that allow your partner to follow your working pattern without them needing a username / password to log in. Here is a great article on the benefits of using a rota. Parenting: How setting up a rota system can help family harmony

Performance & Culture

How Do You Balance Having a Family and Working and Get to Enjoy Your Life?

Work-Life Balance. You are comfortable in your job and you are doing it ...

Performance & Culture

Employee Happiness

Happy employees work better, but how to keep them happy? It’s often the ...

What criteria do you use when choosing new software?

Implementing Tech Saves Care Home Employees Time

Dreading Work?

Are We Nearly There Yet?

How to Avoid the Summer Blues at Work

Let’s Hear It for the Stay-Cation!

Busyness

Effective Staff Absence Planning

10 Ways You Know You Need a New Process at Work

Learning to Have Fun Again

How to Have ‘the Perfectly Imperfect Christmas!’

Post Holiday Blues

Not Enough Hours In The Day

Better Business Process

How Do You Beat An Energy Slump

How Do You Balance Having a Family and Working and Get to Enjoy Your Life?

Employee Happiness

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