Work Life Balance

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• Work Life Balance
• Reality NOT Rhetoric
• Tracy McLeod
• Rock The Boat Consulting

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• Objectives
• During this session we will be discussing
• What do we mean by achievement of Work Life
  Balance for todays work force?
• Why should it be high on the agenda?
• What options are being offered to employees?
• What is current research telling us about the
  challenges associated with achievement of WLB
• Who is really responsible for WLB and how can you
  ensure that your policies/practices match whats
  espoused

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• What can your Force.

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• Work Life Balance?
• Definition
• A balance that ensures daily
• Achievement Enjoyment

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Why Important?
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The Business Case - Individual, Organisation,
Society
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The take up GAP?
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Work issues impacting on Work Life Balance?

• What are the perceived and real organisational
  and individual barriers to a suitable work-life
  balance?
• What helps and what hinders this?
• DISCUSS

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What does research tell us?

• Challenges faced
• Individual
• Line managers
• Organisational

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Individual

• Concerns about career progression
• Lower quality jobs/status
• Work load pressures reduced hours but not
  workload!
• Feelings of guilt
• Reactions of colleagues/managers
• Organisational culture excluding
• People management capabilities of managers

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Line Managers

• Lack understanding of requirements and find
  difficult to manage
• Lack of personal control
• No guidance on how to interpret policy/practice
• Lack skills to negotiate and build trusting
  relationships required
• Making fair decisions
• Estimating workload for new arrangement
• Thinking creatively

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• Cultural norms can be excluding
• Senior Managers example
• Scheduling of meetings
• Request for immediate action
• Long hours valued
• Presence and visibility valued

Organisational
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Responsible for making it work

• Who?
• How?
• Discuss

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Reality NOT Rhetoric
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Reality NOT Rhetoric
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Please now consider....
Assumptions?
Options available?
Measuring Success?
Employees Experience?
Effect on commitment?
Employee take up?
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Please now consider.....
Flexible working helped WLB?
Effects on engagement, service?
Embedded in your culture?
Managers behaviour aligned?
Creativity?
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• What can your Force.

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• Rock the Boat Consulting
• Leadership and Talent Development Experts
• Tracy McLeod, Director
• Rock The Boat Consulting
• Mobile [phone]
• Tel [phone]
• www.rocktheboatconsulting.com

Thank you for you involvement Please come and see
us at the Rock the Boat, STAND 6, If you would
like to find out more about how we can
support you.