Work-life balance

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Work-life balance
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Creating Work-LifeBalance

• I arise in the morning torn between the desire
  to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the
  world. This makes it hard to plan the day,
  E.B.White.

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WORK LIFE BALANCE
We all have so many commitments these days that
we can feel at times we're getting ripped in a
million different directions. What to do? Take
control now by achieving balance between your
work and personal lives.
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WORK LIFE BALANCE 

• WORK LIFE BALANCE is 
• The expression "work-life balance" was first used
  in the late 1970s to describe the balance between
  an individual's work and personal life.
• achieved when an individuals right to a
  fulfilled life inside and outside paid work is
  accepted and respected as the norm, to the mutual
  benefit of the individual, business, and
  society. 

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Time Isnt Money
Its your LIFE!
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What is work Life Balance?

• The search for work-life balance is a process in
  which people seek to
• change things in accordance with changes in their
  own priorities,
• physical, psychological or both, and these can be
  triggered in their turn
• by factors such as age changes in working
  conditions the demands
• of new technology and poor management.
• The ability to effectively manage the juggling
  act between paid work
• and the other activities that are important to
• -people.
• Family/Friends
• Recreation
• Spiritual
• Health and Wellness

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Consequences of Work-Life Balance Struggles

• Work-life balance struggles can diminish your
  overall happiness and well-being and negatively
  impact your life in far-reaching ways.
• Adverse health consequences, such as
  stress-related illnesses, can result when you are
  chronically tense or upset.
• situational factors pose challenges to your
  efforts to create the work-life balance you want.
• Many people are caught in the middle of inner
  conflicts that make it hard for them to make
  changes to create the healthier and happier
  balance they would like.

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CONT.

• Overworked and overstressed employees are more
  likely to get sick and have high absentee rates.
• A lack of work/life balance affects an employees
  attitude. Unhappy workers are typically less
  efficient and can destroy morale.
• Burnout directly affects turnover rates.
  Employees can work at a frantic pace for only so
  long before they get frustrated and leave a
  company.

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CONT

• Women still take prime responsibility for caring
  and domestic work womens employment patterns
  remain much more affected than mens by the need
  to care for children or others.
• Work-life balance is dependent on a mixture of
  state polices, individual circumstances and
  cultural factors. These include norms and
  assumptions particularly in relation to gender
  roles and the domestic division of labour.
• Parents on a low income, especially those with
  few employment options and restricted resources,
  have particular difficulties with work-life
  balance

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WORK LIFE BALANCE ADVANTAGES

• Employee satisfaction
• Attract/retain employees
• Decrease labour turnover
• Increase employee productivity
• Improved reputation
• Decrease absenteeism
• Improved business results

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ADVANTAGES

• 1. Higher quality work2. Less missed time3.
  More employer loyalty4. An overall more
  enjoyable workplace as all employees are
  achieving and enjoying5. More innovative ideas
  as employees care about their job.

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EMPLOYEE BENEFITS

• Decrease pressure
• Able to better meet work/personal/society
  commitments
• More time to do other things
• Help with child/eldercare arrangements
• Travel/Education

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COMPANYS ROLE IN WORK LIFE BALANCE

• companies must provide more than a good salary
  and a medical plan. Companies have started
  implementing flexible work options like
• Childcare
• Wellness programs
• Financial planning
• These work/life benefits encourage employees to
  be more productive and committed to the company,
  and they make your company more competitive when
  recruiting new candidates.

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Employers help in their employees to manage
workloads

• Keeping work hold realistic schedule time
  accurately, manage resources wisely,priortise
  tasks ,say no to projects that could overload
  them.
• Remove interruptions free periods during the
  work results in increased productivity and a less
  stressful work environment.
• Development and promotion of programs for
  education and information concerning safety and
  health of workers

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FACTORS AFFECTING WORK-LIFE BALANCE

• WORKING HOURS
• WORK LOADS
• MULTIPLE ROLES
• FAMILY REQUIREMENTS
• PHYSICAL DISCOMFORT

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10 ways to tell thatyour work-life is not in
balance

• Youre tired, depressed, anxious, and tense
• Your work performance isnt as good as it has
• been
• Youre missing work more often than you
• should

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• Your personal relationships are suffering.
• You feel like youre running in circles and
  getting nowhere.
• You feel like you have no choices and no control.

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• You dont feel in control of your own time.
• You can think of more things that arent getting
  done.
• You feel like one part of your life is
  dominating your time and energy.

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• Your life is happening to you rather than you
  managing your life.

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Steps To Maintain WORK-LIFE Balance

• Identify the priorities
• Be sure to ask
• Set a time frame
• Find a balance mentor
• Telecommute
• Use technology to your advantage
• Communicate
• Have a support system
• Learn your employees policies
• Edit yourself personally and professionally
• Separate work and leisure
• Earmark a separate time for working
• Take a holiday
• Do not bring work home unless absolutely
  necessary
• Enjoy life

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The three Os to balance

• Ourselves
• -physical
• -Emotional
• -Mental
• -Spiritual

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• Others
• -Love/Sexual
• -Families
• -Friends
• -Pets
• -Hobbies/Fun

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• Obligations
• -Work/Vocation
• -Home/Yard
• -Civic/Community
• -Financial

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How Do We KeepOur Balance?

• DECIDE to respond to stress
• DECIDE where to spend your
• - Time
• - Energy

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The 4 pillars of balance

• Be humble
• Be aware
• Be simple
• Be first

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How to Get Ahead?
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Youre Probably More Balanced than You Think

• Dont let the need for
• balance add to
• your exhausting
• schedule and to-do
• list.

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Time Use

• Those who make the worst use of their time are
  the first to complain of its shortness.
• 
  Jean de La Bruysre

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Time Isnt Money

• Its your
• LIFE!
  

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