The document discusses work-life balance and its importance. It defines work-life balance as achieving a balance between workplace obligations and personal responsibilities. Maintaining a proper balance is important for employee well-being and productivity. The document outlines many factors that can lead to an imbalance like long work hours, overload, and lack of flexibility. It provides tips for both employers and employees to improve work-life balance, such as flexible schedules, time off policies, self-care, and stress management. The overall message is that finding the right balance specific to each individual is key to enjoying both work and personal life.

1. Work Life Balance
(WLB)
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4. OUR LIFE AT WORK
 Punctuality
 Long Work Hours
 Rotational Shifts
 Business Travel
 Productivity
 Appraisals
 Customer Relationship
 Quality
 Communication
 Management Demands
 Resources and Needs
 Leave/Vacation
 Awards
 Leisure

6. Between The Three Parties
Employee, Employer
& the Family

7. A wheel has spokes to ensure its strength and balance. Unequal spokes
can make the ride very bumpy, or completely break down
The Wheel of
life

9. WHAT IS WORK LIFE
BALANCE
Work-life balance is a term
used to describe the balance
between workplace obligations
and personal responsibilities.
It is about choices that people
need to make when they
choose family, friends and
hobbies in lieu of work-related
tasks and goals.

10. Reasons for Imbalance
 Individual approach/Ambitions/Competition
 Trying perfection
 Not using technology
 Longer working hours
 Overload
 Unorganised
 Global Economy
 Saying YES to everyone and everything
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12. Questions that we need to ask
In order to ensure work-life balance, one has to
consider the following questions:
 How much time needs to be set aside for work and
how much time needs to be reserved for yourself?
 How much time does you family need from you?
 Can you melt your personal relaxation time in with
family time, or do you need to separate them?
 Decide what you need to recharge your batteries,
and be honest!

13. Components of Work-Life Balance
 Self-Management
 Time Management
 Stress Management
 Change Management
 Technology
Management
 Leisure Management
Relationship Areas:
1.Relation between
colleagues
2.Relation between
seniors and juniors,
and
3.Home and life
Need to work on:

14. Bringing back WLB in Life
 Employers’s Resposnsibility
 On-the-Job Training
o Surveys of employees’ work/life issues.
o Set priorities for all work.
o Train line managers to recognize signs of
overwork.
o Seminars on work/life balance.
 Make Work More Flexible
o Flextime
o Job sharing
o Sponsoring employees’ family-oriented
activities.
 Allow for Time Off from Work
o A formal leave policy.
o Paid childbirth or adoption leave.
o Allow employees leave for community
service.
 Employees Responsibility
 Critique yourself
 Knock out big and important tasks first
 Create a schedule & stick to it
 Avoid interruptions
 Don’t postpone
 Learn the power of saying “no”
 Look from the larger Perspective
 Know when you are done and give
completion report
 Learn to relax, slow down
 Take care of your health
 Have a positive approach
 Share the load
 Own up responsibility

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17. Growth Indicators
Focus
- On Yourself
- On Others
- On achievements or failures

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Your energy level keeps on changing

21. Our Energy is
Dynamic, NOT
Static
We Attract
Energy
We Can Raise
Our Energy
Level
Depends upon our MOOD
Good – Higher Frequency
Bad – Lower Frequency
And We Resonate at frequencies
that We Emit
Good or Bad
Depending on our Mood
Do something that makes you feel
good
Talk to someone, you love
Do something that makes you happy
Help someone
Be with the nature
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22. Growth Indicators
Gratitude

25. Growth Indicators
Chaos

26. Work-life balance
 An effective work-life balance definition has two key
everyday concepts, that are relevant to each of us.
They are daily Achievement and Enjoyment.
 At work you can create your own best Work-Life
Balance by making sure you not only Achieve, but also
reflect the joy of the job, and the joy of life, every
day.
 If nobody pats you on the back, pat yourself on the
back. And help others to do the same.
 When you are a person that not only gets things done,
but also enjoys the doing, it attracts people to you.
 They want you on their team and they want to be on
your team.

27. TEN KIMs (Keep In Mind) - FOR WLB
1. Love Your Life
2. Love your job
3. Be passionate and enthusiastic (Positive talks & Visualization)
4. Reward yourself
5. Stay Healthy
6. Undertake training in techniques required
7. Take holidays and long weekends
8. Practice good time management (right things in a right way at the right
time)
9. Plan a structure
10. Set SMART goals (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic and
timely)

28. Final Thought on the WLB
 In the end, the key word is your LIFE.
 Find the right balance that works for YOU
 Celebrate your successes and don’t dwell on your
failures.
 Life is a process .. and so is, striving for balance
in your life.

29. BE HONEST TO YOURSELF,
YOUR FAMILY
&
YOUR ORGANISATION

30. Work Life Balance
(WLB)
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