Work life balance is a frustration that I hear from all levels of an organization. Are you a manager or owner who wants to help your team care for the seemingly easy tasks of home that still need to be managed either during or after work?
If so, this article will provide simple techniques you can use to help your employees feel less stressed at work.
Work Life Balance Frustrations
Home and personal lives do overlap our professional lives. It is too difficult to separate the two.
Some typical comments that I hear in my workshops are the following:
If I work 110% I get good results. If I work a little harder, I’ll get even more out of it. I wonder why I’m always stressed. I told myself that once I did everything on my to do list…I will finally do what I really enjoy!
We will never enjoy the benefits of time affluence as long as success is defined who works the longest hours or sleeps the least. I’ve seen burned out employees who don’t have the nerve to talk to their leaders. They don’t want to sound like complainers. I challenge them to plan the conversation so that their boss understands the unrealistic demands that they face daily. Of course, leaders may face the same burn out or stress by their leaders!
What can managers do to help employees with their work life balance?
- Include work life balance in the mission statement
- Bring in on site grocery orders or cleaners to help save time for their team
- Discuss possible solutions with the team on how goals can still be reached while changing the process
- Hire professionals to speak on care giving or parenting
- Be a good model and go home on time and strongly encourage your team to follow your lead
- Bring in experts to help improve the working condition of the team
So Joyce, what else can you add on achieving work life balance?
It’s a pipe dream to think that we can achieve total work life balance. BUT we can always make improvements to reduce our stress. I recently heard an international panel discuss how they achieve balance.
- Start with the end in mind such as taking care of myself and my family
- Create ground rules such as exercising daily
- Don’t talk about work at home
- All devices are not allowed at the dinner table
These ideas work when you put them to use. Mangers need to remind their team that improving balance will help them enjoy work more and improve productivity. They need to have important conversations with their team in order to come up with solutions to burn out.
I want to hear from you
CLICK HERE to comment on what your leadership has done to help with your work life balance? How have you handled burnout?
Until next time,
This is Joyce Weiss, Communication Strategist and Coach
I share powerful techniques on tackling tough conversations to build employee engagement, accountability, and improve my client’s quality of life.
Feel free to call me (800.713.1926) concerning your own team/executive retreats, workshops, and on line professional growth coaching.
Remember…You Get What YOU Tolerate!
See YOU Next Week.
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