BUSINESS MATTERS How can I renew my... work-life balance? Ruth Walker 17 September 08...

BUSINESS MATTERS

How can I renew my.

.. work-life balance?

Ruth Walker17 September 08

ruth.walker@scotent.co.uk

Work life balance

How can I renew my work-life balance?

Work life balance

Time

Oh, for an engine, to keep back all clocks; Or make the sun forget his motion!

Ben Jonson (1572-1637)

You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.

Charles Buxton

Urgent but not importantDeal with quickly e.g. trivial requests,

Deal with urgent part of the problem.

Delegate if possible.

Tackle briskly and efficiently to allow time for the important tasks.

Urgent and important Emergencies.

Boss’s demands

Deadline looming

Keep on top of the important to reduce the urgent

Not urgent or importantDo it.

Delegate it.

Dump it.

Defer it.

Keep these time wasters away!

Important but not urgentThese tend to be the core tasks of the job.

Slice up into manageable chunks

Allocated time to these tasks, or they may not get done.

Urgent ones will squeeze them out, until they become urgent themselves

Prioritising tasks U

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IMPORTANT

Work life balance

How can I renew my work-life balance?

integration

Achieving work life integration

• Value your self

• Value your work

• Manage your self

• Manage the moments

• Recognise the mistakes

• Recognise the “seasons”

Value your self

• Know your strengths

• Someone else’s eyes• Set out what you want to achieve/ your

own mission statement• High Q12 answers?

Achieving work life integration

• Value your self

• Value your work

• Manage your self

• Manage the moments

• Recognise the mistakes

• Recognise the “seasons”

Value your work

the superstition that all our hours of work are a minus quantity in the happiness of life and all the hours of idleness are plus ones, is a most ludicrous and pernicious doctrine and its greatest support comes from not taking sufficient trouble, not making a real effort to make work as near pleasure as it can be.”

Lord Balfour

Achieving work life integration

• Value your self

• Value your work

• Manage your self

• Manage the moments

• Recognise the mistakes

• Recognise the “seasons”

Manage yourself

• Diary reconciliation

• Learn new things

• Eureka notebook

• Review and plan

• Keep fit

• Keep friendships

Achieving work life integration

• Value your self

• Value your work

• Manage your self

• Manage the moments

• Recognise the mistakes

• Recognise the “seasons”

Manage the moments

• Create traditions• Meal times together• Phone free moments• Hobbies for all ages • Have fun - do the unexpected• Create sense of “I’d rather be with you”

Quality Time

Achieving work life integration

• Value your self

• Value your work

• Manage your self

• Manage the moments

• Recognise the mistakes

• Recognise the “seasons”

Achieving work life integration

• Value your self

• Value your work

• Manage your self

• Manage the moments

• Recognise the mistakes

• Recognise the “seasons”

What helps me achieve work life balance?

“So here is what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your every day, ordinary life - your sleeping, eating, going to work and walking around life - and place it before God as an offering.”

The Bible: Romans 12:1-2,

May you renew your work-life balance

To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking

Goethe