Work life balance: how to find a balance that works for you

Learn how to achieve a positive & healthy work life balance, with over 60 practical tips & strategies

Course Summary

 Work life balance: How to find a balance that works for you
Learn how to achieve a positive & healthy work life balance, with over 60 practical tips & strategies

Do you want to understand more about work life balance? 

Do you want to learn how to achieve a positive and healthy work life balance? 

Do you want to develop your knowledge and skills to proactively manage your work life balance going forward? 

Do you want to develop a personalised work life balance action plan? 

This course is a practical action oriented course designed to give you the tools, tips & strategies to achieve a positive and healthy work life balance.

This course aims to give you an insight into work life balance, as well as to look at your own work life balance and identify the areas to improve on. The course will also give you a wide range of work life balance tools, tips and strategies to use to achieve a positive and healthy work life balance.

As you go through the course you will be able to apply the learnings and develop your own personalised work life balance action plan to manage your work life balance going forward.

The course is designed to be practical and relevant to real life. It includes lots of ideas, tips and strategies, straightforward explanations and lots of information for you to use to achieve a positive and healthy work life balance. It is not a theoretical or academic course on work life balance.

Who this course is for? 

This course is designed for you if you want to:

* Understand more about work life balance.

* Learn how to achieve a positive and healthy work life balance.

* Develop your knowledge and skills to proactively manage your work life balance going forward.

* Develop a personalised work life balance action plan.

What are the course aims? 

On this course you will:

* Gain an insight into work life balance.

* Look at your own work life balance and identify the areas to improve on.

* Be given a range of work life balance tools, tips and strategies to use to achieve a positive and healthy work life balance.

* Develop a personalised work life balance action plan to manage your work life balance going forward.

What is included in the course? 

The course has the following sections:

* Introduction: including an introduction to the course and the tutor.

* What is work life balance? including looking at what work life balance is, the benefits of a positive and healthy work life balance and the key elements of work life balance.

* How is your work life balance? including a work life balance assessment, where you will complete an assignment to assess your current work life balance and identify areas to improve.

* Work life balance tips & strategies: including looking at a range of work life balance tips and strategies. This section also includes an assignment to complete to understand the action you want to take to improve your work life balance going forward.

* Your work life balance plan: including your work life balance assessment and your work life balance action plan to improve your work life balance going forward.

* Course summary: including a short summary of the course.

We have also included introductions and summaries throughout the course to help with learning. The course is in short bite sized lectures and you can see the detailed course content in the course curriculum.

Practical activities - Developing your own personalised work life balance plan  

There are assignments to complete as you go through the course to develop your own personalised work life balance plan. These include a work life balance assessment and developing your action plan to improve your work life balance going forward.  You will need to allow additional time in addition to the duration of the videos to complete the assignments.

What will you learn? 

By the end of the course, you will:

* Understand more about work life balance.

* Understand your current work life balance and the areas you want to improve on.

* Have an action plan in place for improving your work life balance going forward; and

* Have access to a range of work life balance tips and strategies to use to achieve a positive and healthy work life balance.

Important notes & more about the course 

If you are already very knowledgeable about work life balance, this course may not be for you. Please check the curriculum carefully before signing up for the course.

You can watch the lectures at your convenience on your computer, tablet or smart phone. You can choose to complete the whole course or just watch the lectures that are most relevant to you, whichever you prefer. You can watch each lecture in full or just the elements you want to watch and you can stop a lecture at any point if you want to study the content in more detail.

Good luck 

Good luck with the course and I hope you find it invaluable.

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Testimonials

"A great and informative course."

"Great course! Can't wait to try to find a better work-life balance using some of these tips!"

"I have been struggling with increased responsibility and pressure at work recently which has led to working late. I wanted some strategies to be able to get on top of this whilst still performing at work. This course has been ideal for that. After putting some of these into practice, I plan to share with colleagues to support them during this busy period and beyond."

"A very helpful course on work life balance."

Liz Makin

Liz Makin is an online course instructor specialising in personal development, with courses on anxiety management, coaching, communication, conflict management, people management, resilience, soft skills, stress management, time management and work life balance.

As well as publishing online courses, Liz is an experienced business coach, business mentor and stress management consultant based in England with over 25 years of business experience at senior management and director level, as well as a Masters degree in Coaching and Behavioural Change.

Liz has been running her own business Makin It Happen - Coaching, Mentoring & Stress Management since 2002, which provides business coaching, business mentoring and stress management to business owners, directors, managers and professionals from small and medium sized companies to international organisations.

Liz support clients to maximise the performance of their business, to maximise their own personal performance at work, in dealing with high levels of stress at work or in their business, when going through stressful and challenging times and in managing stress and building resilience to stress over time.

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