The case for work life balance

Over recent years, numerous surveys have found that employees are wanting better work life balance, and it has consistently been in the top 4 requirements of employees looking for a new job.

We have seen some businesses embrace this requirement and offer more flexible working hours and others offering better maternity or paternity leave. How does this actually impact employees? Do they actually see the benefit of these new policies?

Some of my clients have told me that although their company releases new policies and says that they are working hard to offer improved work life balance, it can often be frowned upon when employees actually TRY to make the most of these benefits.

Other companies see work life balance as fluffy and not relevant to running the business. These companies are severely missing out on potentially making increased profits. Improved retention, motivation and performance as a result of better work life balance arrangements has been shown to increase organisational profits.

Freek Vermeulen has written an article in the Harvard Business Publishing to address such issues. It is a most interesting read and is a must for all Business owners and executives.
http://blogs.harvardbusiness.org/vermeulen/2009/04/the-case-for-worklife-programs.html

For more information on how you can manage your work life balance visit our website or email Jennifer.

Are you taking your chances?

I was playing solitaire today, waiting patiently for the aces to come out, moving over the remaining cards to eventually get out. I got out once out of, I don't know how many times, I lost count. I suddenly realised that the reason I was only winning 1 game every now and then was because I was just waiting for my opportunities to come to me. In the next game I started looking for my opportunities and sure enough I found them and I got out.

Economists are telling us that we are currently in the midst of one of the greatest financial downturns in history. We have seem a significant increase in job losses, people are becoming more conservative with their spending and some of the world's best know organisations are no longer. There are always people who prosper in times of financial difficulty, by seeing the opportunities which are available to them. John D. Rockefeller was able to make millions during the great depression to eventually become America's first billionaire.

Seeing and creating opportunities is critical at this time. What opportunities have passed you by? Can you create new opportunities to get you closer to your goals?

Focus on what you want, take advantage of everything you can and you'll soon see your cards coming out.

To find out how you can realise opportunities before waiting for them to appear, email info@incitecoaching.com.au to get your free report

How to get your dream job

Thank you to all who took part in last night's tele-seminar, how to get your dream job.

We had an action filled 50 minutes, with plenty of exercises to help you find out what type of job and company you would be best suited to. I truly believe that we all owe it to ourselves to invest time into planning our careers. John Lees suggests that we spend 80% of our waking energy at work, travelling to or from work and worrying about work related tasks!

If you missed the seminar, and want help planning your career transitions, fear not , there will be a full edited version available to download soon!

If anyone has any comments or questions about the seminar, I would love to hear them.

Also, keep an eye out for the Career Momentum Workbooks, jammed full of exercises to help you through your career transition. They will be hitting stored soon.