Balancing Your Work Priorities and Life Responsibilities
When work and home have overlapping priorities, professional life can begin to spill into personal time, workdays can grow longer and the risk for burnout becomes higher. Today's increased numbers of remote workers — where home and work have become the same — begin to blur the lines even more.
This workshop explores the best practices to keep employees happy, engaged and stress-free. It provides the strategies needed to increase energy levels, manage high-pressure situations and relax the mind and body to improve mood. Besides improving crucial time management skills, participants also learn how to calm themselves in the face of pressure, reset priorities and implement new habits that produce more effective collaboration and communication with the people they live and work with — all while enjoying more job satisfaction overall.
Course Outcomes
- Learn steps you can take to grow your energy levels
- Discuss how motivation can increase your daily momentum
- Describe the benefits of managing personal stress levels
- Get the tools for improving mood, decision making, relationships and more
- Understand how virtual team efficacy affects job satisfaction
Course Agenda
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Balancing Your Work Priorities and Life Responsibilities
When work and home have overlapping priorities, professional life can begin to spill into personal time, workdays can grow longer and the risk for burnout becomes higher. Today's increased numbers of remote workers — where home and work have become the same — begin to blur the lines even more.
This workshop explores the best practices to keep employees happy, engaged and stress-free. It provides the strategies needed to increase energy levels, manage high-pressure situations and relax the mind and body to improve mood. Besides improving crucial time management skills, participants also learn how to calm themselves in the face of pressure, reset priorities and implement new habits that produce more effective collaboration and communication with the people they live and work with — all while enjoying more job satisfaction overall.
Module 1: The Personal Side of Change: Learning to Thrive, Not Just Survive
Change is everywhere. Words like chaos, turbulence and uncertainty are part of life today. But while it may seem like change is always negative, it often produces needed — and wanted — benefits.
- Recognize personal response to change
- Identify the effects of stress
- Discover the behaviors of resilience
Module 2: Energizing Techniques
Too much to do without the time or energy to get everything done? This module will uncover steps that can be taken to grow energy levels and apply motivation to increase momentum. You’ll learn tips and tricks for transforming chaos into momentum and gain insight into how habits are formed and how to reprogram bad habits for efficient results.
- Identify how personal motivators reflect professional values
- Recognize techniques to form productive habits
- Discuss techniques for high-stress periods
Module 3: Tools for Relaxation
Relaxation can lead to improved mood, better decision making, stronger relationships and improved overall health. This module teaches you to take the time to manage personal stress levels and reap the professional and personal benefits.
- Describe the impact personal stress has on others
- Select a stress management technique to mitigate intense situations
- Identify warning signals to prevent burnout and self-sabotage
Module 4: Preparing to Handle Competing Priorities
Know how to prioritize work in order to improve project success, motivate project teams and build integrity.
- Recognize how multitasking impacts quality
- Indicate precedence among competing priorities using the PERT chart
- Identify the benefits of delegation for managers and team members
Module 5: Needs-Based Time Management
Effective time management isn’t about controlling time; it’s about managing how time is invested.
- Discuss techniques for setting relevant, achievable goals
- Identify the most desired qualities of a personal organization tool
- Recognize the benefits of focus, energy and willpower over procrastination
Module 6: Crafting an Emotionally Intelligent Environment — Self-Regulate and Self-Motivate
Self-regulation is the ability to monitor and manage one’s behavior, which is a needed skill in today’s world.
- Describe factors related to motivation
- Recognize teh physical signs of emotional turmoil
- Discuss the process to use when negative emotions emerge