Work-Life Balance

Course Overview

This course will help delegates to :

• Decide what are the most important areas in your life and how much time to devote to these areas.
• Have greater control over your time and energy. (Control and maintain task achievement in such a climate).
• Make the best use of your time and energies.

Audience

This course is aimed at helping everyone in an organisation to strike a sensible balance between their working and private lives.

Course Outline

• The Way Things Are: assessing what is happening now in your private and working life; is the balance right? understanding how things get out of balance.
• Managing Priorities: exploring the difference between important and urgent pressures in the context of work-life balance.
• Being in Control: practical ways of exercising more control over how your time is used.
• Working Smarter: freeing up time for personal objectives; coping with competing demands; using your energy in the right directions.
• Planning: scheduling activities to ensure you focus on key work-life objectives.
• Perspective and Control: lateral thinking; patterns of behaviour; listening responses; developing self-assertion; making and refusing requests; the importance of control.
• Stress: identifying the adverse effects of stress on you; avoiding being your own worst enemy; everything in moderation; self-motivation; stress as a positive source of energy; exercises in reducing negative stress.
• A Work-Life Balance: workshop session involving exercises designed to help identify key areas for personal development and action planning.
• Action Plan: planning and scheduling specific changes in how you balance work-life pressures for yourself.