Balancing Work and Family: How to Embrace Change for a Happier Life

Hi, my dear friends,

In order to manage both personal and work life, here are a few easy ways. I hope you all feel relaxed after going through this. Understand that work and family are equally important. Try to change; don't always stick to one way of doing things. Try different ways to achieve your goals. If you want to know how, read the short story on "Who Moved My Cheese" PPT attached and adapt change in your life. Enjoy each and every moment in life; it's just one time.

Regards,
Ajithaa

Dear Ajitha,

Great work.

At the Sanjivini Human Resources Institute, we have developed a mathematical model by which one can actually measure one's current state of work-life balance.

The idea is that the concept of 'balance' cannot be a 'one size fits all' one. Even for an individual, the balance keeps on changing as it is influenced by many factors.

What we have experienced while conducting our WLB programs is that, particularly in today's environment of economic meltdown, pink slips, and what have you, more and more younger corporates are beginning to feel the heat of the pulls and counter-pulls of family and work demands.

Just as it is not enough to know that you 'have a fever', but must be able to actually measure it, understand why it is so, and then do something about it, we need to address WLB quite seriously.

Unfortunately, unlike in the fever analogy, 98.4 F is not normal for everyone as far as WLB is concerned!

Fortunately, on the other hand, leading corporates are seized with the problem and are addressing it.

With best regards,

Commodore Shekhar

Thank you for posting students' work. My main criticism of students' work is that they fail to give a bibliography indicating where they copied some of the works.

Also, see Work Life Balance - Frequently Asked Questions for details of work-life balance (WLB) issues in Ireland.

Have a nice day.

Simhan
A retired academic in the UK

Thank you so much. I have a movie version of this, but the PowerPoint version serves as a good handout after my facilitation of the "change management" process.

Dear All,

Thank you for sharing the work-life balance presentation. It is important to balance work and our personal lives in order to overcome stress.

With best regards, Elisante Yona

Dear Commodore Shekhar,

I am happy to learn about such an innovative method to measure work-life balance. I am developing a module on this subject for an NGO. Is it possible for you to share that model for the benefit of the participants?

Regards,
Pradeep
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Very good presentations. Dividing the time to meet personal needs, job requirements, friends/relatives, spiritual requirements, etc., is a good concept. This is advocated in the same way by Management Gurus like Stephen Covey.

Regards,
V. Raghunathan
Navi Mumbai