Work life balance (scl)

Presented By-
Deepak Kumar Sharma
SCL
Store Dept

What is Work-life-Balance
Reasons for imbalance
Solutions for the imbalance
What corporates say
HR solutions for the imbalance
Benefits from Work-life-balance
CONTENTS

Work–life balance is a concept including proper prioritizing between
"work" (career and ambition)
and
"lifestyle"(Health, pleasure, leisure, family and spiritual
development/meditation).
MEANING
जब तक आप जीवन से संतुष्ट नह ं होते तब तक आप कभी भी काम
से संतुष्ट नह ं होंगे!"
- ह थ स्कक
(ग्लैमजमा के संस्थापक और सीईओ)

OUR LIFE AT WORK
 Punctuality
 Long Work Hours
 Rotational Shifts
 Business Travel
 Inventory control
 Appraisals
 Customer Relationship
 Communication
 Productivity
 Quality
 Management
Demands
 Resources and Need
 Leave/Vacation
 Awards
 Leisure

LETS CHANGE OUR STATEMENT
Rather than saying “I have a stressful life” change it to “I will
learn how to come back on track and live a balanced life and
leave no place for stress”.

According to Brian Dyson, then CEO of Coca-Cola Enterprises

Effects of Imbalance
If you are working more than fifty-five hours a week, you are out of balance. You
are putting at risk at least four very important assets :
Your health
Your family
Your friends
Your effectiveness

Global economy
Longer working
hours
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Reasons for imbalance

Competition
Individual career
ambition
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Reasons for imbalance

Don’t overbook
Prioritize ruthlessly
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Solutions

Learn how to say “NO”
Organize
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Solutions

Use technology
Know it won’t always
be perfect
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Solutions

1. Love Your Life : Enjoy your journey. Take control of your life. Be true to
yourself and never accept less than you want. Enrich yourself socially,
culturally, intellectually, constantly focus on your personal development
achieve your goals and enjoy the journey.
YOU HAVE IDENTIFIED WHAT IS IMPORTANT
YOU ARE MAKING IT HAPPEN
YOU ARE IN CONTROL
YOU ARE ENJOYING EVERY STEP OF YOUR LIFE
10 KIM (Keep in Mind)
Tips for Work-Life Balance

2. Love Your Job: Career development is a journey and every journey is
more enjoyable if you enjoy every step, enjoy the tasks, the people, the
environment and the opportunities. You can also undergo professional
training courses and this will help you enhance knowledge and understanding
and this in return will increase your control and lastly you achieve a better
balance. So it’s very important to enjoy what you do or change what you do.

3. Be Passionate and Enthusiastic: Mix with positive people and don’t accept negativity
either privately or professionally. See the Opportunity and not the obstacle. Always try to see
the positive situation of any thing. Look harder look longer and look at it differently. Two
techniques to attain these is 1. Positive self talk and 2. Visualization.
Positive Self-Talking
Instead of telling “you can’t do something”, tell yourself “you can do it” Say these “I am
a great person; I am valuable, I am good at what I do, I am excited about my work, my goals
and my life”.
Visualization includes:
Determining your end goal (actually seeing, touching, feeling and experiencing the
emotion of the goal). In this way you feel that you have already achieved your goal as you are
already experiencing it.

4. Stay Healthy: It’s important to eat well, sleep well and exercise. You need good
office desk, good chair, good lighting, no fall over cables and at home it is just as
valid. At home a good bed is also important as one spends most of the time there.
Medical check ups are important. When working hard any of the therapies and
check ups are cost effective.
5. Reward Yourself: They are important because they are something extra that you
have been working towards. So, after you have set your goals and achieved them
take the reward. You can choose to reward yourself be it at work or home. By doing
this everything will become more enjoyable. Take the small and big rewards. You
deserve it.

6. Take Holidays and Long Weekends: If you have got good Structure in
place and good support system you can find a time off.
7. Undertake Training in Techniques Required: There are many books
available on effective time management, goal setting, prioritizing activity,
increasing effectiveness, negotiation, relaxation and stress management.
Also, there are providers of these trainings.

8. Practice Good Time Management: It means to do the right things in a
right way at the right time. For this you need to focus on your priorities and
focus on those tasks that advance important goals; those goals that will bring
in high pay off results.
Activities that involve too much time should be simplified, delegated or
eliminated. Good time management means focusing on results. It’s important
to aim for excellence but not necessarily for perfection. Cause when you aim
for excellence you might get excellent results but when you aim for
perfection you might never quite get there.

9. Plan a Structure:
Work life balance is all about Flexibility which can be achieved by a Structure in
place as it brings certainty (You know what’s going to happen and why). It also
includes TOOLS / RESOURCES to have flexibility. This includes you being able to work
from variety of places in different times of a day effectively. For this you would need
mobile phones, laptops, remote access and flexible hours are important.
10. Set SMART Goals:
Plan and Prioritize your goals [S.M.A.R.T  Specific, Measurable, Attainable,
Realistic and Timely]

 WORK NEAR HOME
“Try to cut down the commuting time.” says Pushkar Singh Kataria, 38,VP,group
HR, Vedanta Resources. At lunch hour he heads home-10 minutes from his office.
 ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORKING CAN WAIT
Curb checking your Facebook profile or professional network account to set a time
during the day or week. “You can save time and spend it on yourself,” says
Anita Belani, country head, Russel Reynolds.
Tips from corporate

 PAMPER YOURSELF
Indulge yourself. Spend a couple of hours in the garden, play with children, or cook. Get 7 to 8
hours of sleep every night. “Pamper yourself a little more every day and you’ll see a big payoff
at work and home.” says Gurmeet Singh, area director, India Maldives, Mariott Hotels.
 Others
 Listen to music
 Watch a comedy
 Meet friends for get together
 Go shopping with family
 Sit and plan your finance
 Help family in household work
 Play with your child
Tips from corporate

On the job training
Surveys of employee work /life issues
Set priorities for all work
Train line managers to recognize signs of
overwork
Seminars on work life balance
Make work more flexible
Flexi time
Job sharing
Sponsoring employees’ family oriented
activities
service
HR solutions for Work-life Balance
Allow for time off from work
A formal leave policy
Paid childbirth or adoption
leave
Allow employees to take leave
for community service

Better physical and mental health
Making choice about your priorities rather than sacrificing any
More leisure time to spend with loved ones or for yourself
Benefits from work life balance
“Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less
energy to go faster
and further when the wheels are in perfect
alignment
you perform better when your thoughts, feelings
emotions, goals
and values are in balance.”

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