Work Life Balance

Why Work Life Balance?

The percentage of time we spend working is still on the rise, leaving free time relegated to a few short hours a week, and life can seem like one long work day after another. We can spend well beyond our contracted hours at our jobs. Many of us never leave work at all. It is still in our heads when we are travelling home, when we are with our family or friends, and even when we are trying to get to sleep at night.

We can continue with the way things are and hope it gets better, or do something about it. This one-day training course is for people who want to do something about it. It is an opportunity to step back, take stock, and find ways to make changes.

Course Objectives

At the end of this one-day course delegates will have a number of methods, tools and approaches to:

	Identify the roles and activities which require different levels of attention
	Exert more control over their time and energy
	Improve workload management with practical techniques and approaches

Course Content

	Assessing current life-work balance and how it affects us
	Understanding the causes of imbalance
	Life and work responsibilities - the roles we have
	Seven practical ways to cope with too much work
	Coping with competing demands and maintaining concentration
	What drains us and what fuels us
	Understanding the energy "barometer" and managing energy levels
	Getting priorities right and protecting them
	Strategies for upgrading the quality of our lives and nurturing well-being
	"Depth" activities which stabilise us
	Creating life and work goals

Who will benefit

This course is suitable for anyone wishing to manage their work-life balance more effectively.

What if I can't see it on your Training Calendar?

Most of our corporate courses are commissioned by organisations for "in-house" training. The training calendar gives details of our open courses. If you would like a quote for delivering this course in house, please feel free to e-mail us or call (01926) 856746.

Kenilworth, Warwickshire, is within easy reach of Coventry, Birmingham and the West Midlands. The nearest train stations are Coventry and Leamington Spa with good links to London, Leicester, Nottingham, the East Midlands and the rest of the UK.

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