BUSINESS MATTERS

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BUSINESS MATTERS

• How can I renew my.
• .. work-life balance?

Ruth Walker 17 September 08 ruth.walker_at_scotent.c
o.uk
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Work life balance

• How can I renew my work-life balance?

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Work life balance
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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

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Prioritising tasks
URGENT
IMPORTANT
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Work life balance
integration

• How can I renew my work-life balance?

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Achieving work life integration

• Value your self
• Value your work
• Manage your self
• Manage the moments
• Recognise the mistakes
• Recognise the seasons

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Value your self

• Know your strengths
• Someone elses eyes
• Set out what you want to achieve/ your own
  mission statement
• High Q12 answers?

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Gallup Q12 Index

• 1) Do you know what is expected of you at work?
• 2) Do you have the materials and equipment to do
  your work right?
• 3) At work, do you have the opportunity to do
  what you do best every day?
• 4) In the last seven days, have you received
  recognition or praise for doing good work?
• 5) Does your supervisor, or someone at work, seem
  to care about you as a person?
• 6) Is there someone at work who encourages your
  development?
• 7) At work, do your opinions seem to count?
• 8) Does the mission/purpose of your company make
  you feel your job is important?
• 9) Are your associates (fellow employees)
  committed to doing quality work?
• 10) Do you have a best friend at work?
• 11) In the last six months, has someone at work
  talked to you about your progress?
• 12) In the last year, have you had opportunities
  to learn and grow?

Gallup
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Valuing myself

• 1) I know what is expected of me at work
• 2) I have the materials and equipment to do my
  work right
• 3) At work, I have the opportunity to do what I
  do best every day
• 4) In the last seven days, I received praise
  for doing good work
• 5) My boss seem to care about me as a person
• 6) There someone at work who encourages my
  development
• 7) At work, my opinions seem to count
• 8) The purpose of my organisation makes me feel
  my job is important
• 9) My fellow workers are committed to doing
  quality work
• 10) I have a best friend at work
• 11) In the last 6 months, someone talked to me
  about my progress
• 12) In the last year,I have had opportunities to
  learn and grow

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Achieving work life integration

• Value your self
• Value your work
• Manage your self
• Manage the moments
• Recognise the mistakes
• Recognise the seasons

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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

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Achieving work life integration

• Value your self
• Value your work
• Manage your self
• Manage the moments
• Recognise the mistakes
• Recognise the seasons

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Manage yourself

• Diary reconciliation
• Learn new things
• Eureka notebook
• Review and plan
• Keep fit
• Keep friendships

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Achieving work life integration

• Value your self
• Value your work
• Manage your self
• Manage the moments
• Recognise the mistakes
• Recognise the seasons

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Manage the moments

• Create traditions
• Meal times together
• Phone free moments
• Hobbies for all ages
• Have fun - do the unexpected
• Create sense of Id rather be with you
• Quality Time

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Achieving work life integration

• Value your self
• Value your work
• Manage your self
• Manage the moments
• Recognise the mistakes
• Recognise the seasons

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Achieving work life integration

• Value your self
• Value your work
• Manage your self
• Manage the moments
• Recognise the mistakes
• Recognise the seasons

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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 121-2,

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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