This document discusses work life balance in the new world of work. It notes that clear boundaries between work and personal life no longer exist due to factors like mobile devices and social media allowing work to constantly intrude on personal time. It recommends focusing on quality over quantity, making clean breaks between work and personal activities, and having self-confidence to make choices and deal with the consequences in order to achieve balance. Control involves being able to thoughtfully make choices about how to spend your time and priorities.

1. Work Life Balance in a New World of Work

2. Work Life Balance?

3. Separation
Integration

4. Symptoms
Causes

5. Balance
Control

6. Control:
Having the self-confidence to make choices
and deal with the consequences.

7. Every choice has consequences
clock or compass?
now or later?
freedom or pressure?
pressure or stress?
act or react? quality of quantity?
responsible or guilty?
office or elsewhere?
heart or mind?
stay or go?
mail or meeting?
partner or work? on or off?

8. We have to think, weigh, choose,
decide and …..
live with the consequences!

9. Every choice has a consequence…
partner children
friends family
parents social circles
your work you!

10. multi-tasking was
the old answer
Make clean breaks and
„continuous partial attention‟ is fatal
give your undivided
attention to whatever it
is you‟re doing.

11. ‘success’ ‘failure’ ‘success’
self-confidence

12. Strong
Smart

13. Lack of balance is a
gliding slope

14. Lack of balance is a
gliding slope
quantity
a lot of work but temporary
usually feels good
Time Management

15. Lack of balance is a
gliding slope
quantity
quality
no energy for important things
we try to do „it‟ right
instead of doing the right things
Rethink the „why‟ of your goals

16. Lack of balance is a
gliding slope
quantity
quality
victim, not in control psychological
„Is this all?‟
rethink your goals

17. Do you hold on to the old techniques
or will you embrace the chaos?

18. To most people a good WLB
is about leaving the office at
a reasonable hour.
As if there was still
a clear line between
work and personal!

19. 1. mobility & mobile devices

20. 2. the world is flat

21. 3. productivity

22. 4. Facebook, LinkedIn, Xing, etc

23. 5. Everyone has access

24. extra freedom?
extra pressure?

25. Ask yourself:
in this „chaos‟
do I have the self-confidence to make
my choices and deal with the consequences?

26. Of our
working
day we
about 2 hrs
spend…
on personal
issues

27. Private emails (72%)
Private phone calls (71%)
Internet for personal use (66%)
Finding another job(14% )
Running errants, shopping, etc.

28. It is not a one way street anymore
Work comes into just as much as
our personal lives the other way
around!

29. Clear boundaries no longer exist

30. “Problems cannot be
solved at the same
level of thinking with
which they were
created.”

31. Traditional
Work daytime
(on weekdays)
Personal time
in the evening
and weekend

32. Traditional
Work daytime
(on weekdays)
Personal time
in the evening
and weekend

33. ‘Continuous Partial Attention’
Watch the clean breaks

34. Stop multitasking
Concentrate and focus instead
Make choices and deal with consequences
Focus on quality not on quantity
Ask yourself: What makes sense for me?
Formulate some goals for your personal life!

35. For results in your life
You have to do something!

36. Did you ever hear yourself say….
„yes, but if only my manager…..‟
„yes, in this company, …‟
„yes, but under the current
circumstances…‟

38. You cannot
influence the wind,
so start managing
your sails!

39. So again:
For results in your life
You have to do something!

40. Important & urgent
S M T W F S
Planned quality

41. Action
Quality &
Focus
Temptation

42. Control:
The self-confidence to make your choices
and deal with the consequences.

43. So all change comes from…. unreasonable people!
Unreasonable people try to adapt the world to them
Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world.
George Bernhard Shaw