This document discusses work-life balance and time management. It begins with an agenda on work-life balance, including defining it, achieving it, and identifying gaps. It then covers the Working Time Directive, barriers to work-life balance, and personal time management strategies. Tips are provided for prioritizing tasks, scheduling time, managing distractions and more. The document stresses committing to changes to find a better work-life balance and setting a good example for others.

1. Jackie Newman
Work Life Balance
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2. Agenda
• Work Life Balance
– What does it mean for you?
– Have you achieved it?
– What is the gap?
• Management of time
– Working Time Directive
– Barriers to work life balance
• “Brainstorm”
– Personal time management
• What can we do differently
• Basic time management practices
– Commitment to change
• Example to others
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3. Work Life Balance
• What does it mean for you?
• Have you achieved it?
• What is the gap?
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4. Working Time Regulations
• a limit of an average of 48 hours a week (normally calculated
over 17 weeks)
• a daily rest period of 11 consecutive hours
• an uninterrupted weekly rest period of 24 hours (or 48 hours in
each 14 day period)
• a rest break where the working day is more than 6 hours
• a right to 4 weeks paid leave per year
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5. Working Time
• Working lunches, such as business lunch
• When a worker has to travel as part of job. e.g. sales
rep.
• Training that is work related
• Time spent abroad working if a worker works for an
employer who carries on business in Great Britain
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6. Work Life Balance
• What are the Barriers?
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7. Personal Time Management
• What can we do differently?
– How are you spending your time?
• Analysis of time log
• Questionnaire
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8. Personal Time Management
• Importance and Urgency are not the same thing
– Exercise 1 & 2
• Reduce time spent on low importance tasks
– Delegate
– Be more assertive and say ‘No’
– Drop jobs that do not help achieve goals
• Increase time spent on high importance tasks
– Plan and schedule time for lengthy tasks
– Assess importance and urgency
• Delay non urgent jobs
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9. Personal Time Management Tips
• Prioritise and organise work
• Schedule time
• Beware of common time wasters
• Organise your work space
• Keep e-mail/paperwork in control
• Manage incoming and outgoing phone calls
• Manage interruptions
• Procrastination
• Delegate
(Handouts)
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11. Commitment to Change
Here is Edward Bear, coming
downstairs now, bump, bump,
bump on the back of his head,
behind Christopher Robin. It is, as
far as he knows, the only way of
coming downstairs, but sometimes
he feels that there really is another
way, if only he could stop bumping
his head for a minute and think of it.
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12. Commitment to Change
• What are you going to do differently?
• What example will go give to others?
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