Work Life Balance & PEP

Work Life Balance Hints & Tips

Here are some interesting hints & tips from our own consultants, gleaned from working with their thousands of people who have been pepped. If you find them useful suggest to your colleagues that they visit our site for themselves.

Work life balance in the office

With the threats of the GLC receding – at least in this part of the world, competition for scarce talent is once again emerging. And one of the biggest factors in retaining talented employees is the ability to provide work life balance.

A MetLife Employee Benefits Trend Study published several years ago reported:

• More than half (56 per cent) of today's employees rate work-life balance as a key job selection criterion, with a roughly equal percentage of men (56 per cent) and women (58 per cent) saying it was critical factor for them.
• Among employees aged between 21 and 30, work-life balance has now become the single most important consideration when deciding whether to join or remain with an employer, even more important than the opportunity for financial growth and advancement or skill building and professional growth.

Many managers say this is easier said than done.

They cite the growth of email traffic: more than 60% of managers report to us that they spend over 4 hours a day on emails. Another is the time spent in meetings. But perhaps the worst is the sheer volume of work which, apparently, just has to be done.

Work Life Balance Articles

Here are some interesting articles on work life balance. Please feel free to download them and try them out.

• Personal Efficiency the Key to Work Life Balance (31Kb) - Tony D'Arcy, September 2011
• Work overload putting top talent at risk! (27Kb) - Denis Healy, October 2010
• Hooked on Gadgets (658Kbs) - New York Times: June 2010
• Eight ways to manage yourself (231Kb)- Kerry Gleeson; March 2010
• Working Effectively From Wherever you are - 2008 (908Kb)
  Getting more of the Right work Done in Less time. Bary Sherman and Lynn Sherman PEP Productivity Solutions USA
• Eight ways to improve your productivity (18K )
  A dilemma that many executives face is how to develop their staff when they barely have time to do your real work, let alone any extra?
• Handling the Reading Pile (18Kb)
  Once they have completed PEP most people are pretty good at handling their "must do" reading. However, their ongoing challenge is all the other reading (the "like to" reading) that slowly turns into that daunting pile on the bookshelf.
• Seven Time Wasters and how to evict them (172Kb) - David Parmenter, Management, March 2006
  Ensnared by time-wasting traps, managers can fast get bogged down in repetitive tasks and irrelevant details.  Enlightened organisations around the world are forging pathways for change.  David Parmenter shares seven practical ways to clear the calendar and reclaim the day.
• Breaking the email compulsion (252Kb) - Suw Charman-Anderson, The Guardian, Thursday 28 August 2008
  The unpredictable way that useful emails arrive makes checking for them as addictive as slot machines. But you can regain control ...
• The Simple Way To Gain One More Day A Week (336Kb) - Kathryn Anda, 29 April 2009
  “At what stage are we taught the skills of time management and being productive?”, says PEPworldwide Managing Director Kathryn Anda. “We’ve been forced to develop these skills ourselves, and no doubt many of us have picked up some bad habits along the way - it’s not surprising that our workplaces are unproductive.”

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