Blending Work And Family
Balancing Acts:
Guiltfree, Creative Ideas to Blend Your Work and Your Life
CARE Packages for the Home
Dozens of Ways to Regenerate Spirit Where You Live
Did you know?
- 88% of us say we work very hard, and that hard work causes negative spillover into the rest of our lives.
- 26% of American workers feel emotionally drained by their jobs.
- 28% don't have energy to do things with family or others.
- 36% just feel used up at the end of the day
Aon Consulting's America @ Work study found that of 17 factors that correlate significantly to workforce commitment, salary did not make the top 10. The top thing employees said affected their commitment to their employer was "an employer's recognition of the importance of personal and family time."
The truth is clear - we all want a life! A survey commissioned by the Merck Family Fund entitled "Yearning for Balance" found that people commonly say that spending more time with family and friends, reducing stress, and doing more to make a difference in their communities will bring their lives more into balance and make them more satisfying.
Despite statistics that indicate family time is a high priority for over 80% of both men and women (HR Magazine, July 2000), everyone seem to be in "survival" mode - rushing from long hours at work to be home, bouncing from activity to activity and stressor to stressor!
In this presentation Barbara tells us to FORGET BALANCE because we will never be in balance but instead to take the energy we spend on feeling guilty and use it to creatively blend the other areas of our lives - Family, Friends, Health, Spirit and Service - into our Work. She will stimulate your creative juices to find healthy ways to incorporate aspects of your home life into your work life in two ways:
- Ideas that each INDIVIDUAL can adopt in order to create a more wholesome and satisfying life for himself/herself
- Ideas that the ORGANIZATION can promote and champion in their worklife programs, management styles, and policies and procedures
Barbara will share dozens of creative, immediately applicable, no-cost or low cost ideas to help this blending happen, making this presentation a great experience for both employees and employers. These programs can be designed for business organizations, spouse programs, or women's groups.
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Outcomes
After attending this session, supervisors and managers will learn skills and ideas to:
- Discover creative ways to blend work and family.
- Understand the powerful choices each person has to make a difference both at work and at home.
- Understand and internalize the acronym CARE.
- Leave with many specific, real-life ideas and tools to regenerate spirit in their homes and workplaces from sources worldwide.
- Have a list of available resources to help them keep the spirit alive.
- Products from Barbara that go hand in hand with this program are her books;
- Balancing Acts -- More Than 250 Guiltfree, Creative Ideas to Blend your Work and your Life
- CARE Packages for the Home -- Dozens of Ways to Regenerate Spirit Where You Live
- The Red Pate
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