MAINTAINING A HEALTHY WORKLIFE BALANCE BY SAM ADDOQUAYE

MAINTAINING A HEALTHY WORK-LIFE BALANCE BY SAM ADDO-QUAYE, CP, ROYAL CHAPTER

PRESENTATION GUIDE • What is Work. Life Balance • Why has it become important • Benefits To FGBMFI Members • Practical Ways of Achieving Work. Life Balance

WORKLIFE BALANCE- SOME QUESTIONS • Why do we work? – Gen 3: 19 • Is it important to why? • How must we work? • How must we go about ?

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WORKLIFE BALANCE-WHAT IS IT? • Defined as is a concept including proper prioritizing between “WORK" (career and ambition) AND • “LIFESTYLE" (health, pleasure, leisure, family and spiritual development/meditation) • Joggling the demands of work and rest of one’s life • This is related to the idea of lifestyle choice.

WHY HAS IT BECOME IMPORTANT • Increase and enhancement in technology – Texting, emailing, whats. Apps • Ever expanding global village – Doing business round the clock • Demand for increase in productivity • Need to keep cost of operations low – To avoid lay offs – Improvement in use of machinery that delivers more • My BLACKBERRY experience!!!!

BENEFITS TO FGBMFI MEMBERS • • Enhanced quality family life Less susceptibility to BURNOUT! Attention is paid where due Experience fewer health issues Increase in productivity One becomes more sociable Both in the interest of employee and manager

PRACTICAL WAYS OF ACHIEVING WORKLIFE BALANCE • Build a downtime into your schedule: – with family / friends and activities that can recharge you. • Drop activities that take away your energy • Rethink your errands: – possible outsourcing some. Eg car-pooling or trading services, etc • Get Moving: regular exercise!!!!! – Gym work • Bring back “little” Relaxation!: – Weekend away or annual vacation! – Turn off work phones / laptops after work

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