Work Life Balance Program

So you’ve identified the importance and benefits of supporting your staff to achieve work life balance, so how about promoting them?!?!

Unfortunately I see so many organisations miss great opportunities to capitalise on their work life balance commitment to attract and retain talent. Watch our latest video for suggestions on promoting your work life balance offer to ensure that you communicate pre, during and post employment.

Employers interested in implementing or looking to review their Employee Assistance Program (EAP), should consider a number of factors to select the best provider for their organisation. An Employee Assistance Program (EAP) is an independent and confidential counselling service for individuals to help them through any issues that they face in their life that they need some external support.

Employers who implement a work life balance program may be unclear whether they are successful or not. Success can be measured in a variety of ways and it is important to determine your success measures early on, preferably pre-implementation, so that you are aware of what you are trying to achieve and monitor how you are going throughout the program.

Employers can offer a range of extra products or services to assist their staff to achieve work life balance. Organisations may offer flexible working arrangements and additional leave entitlements, however health, wellbeing and other work life balance extras can provide the extra support needed to play an even bigger role in fostering happy and healthy staff.

Managers have a range of responsibilities and in most cases it includes people management. Managers play one of the most critical roles in an employee’s experience at work. To help foster productive employees who will assist you to achieve goals whilst also supporting work life balance, we offer the following tips.

Want to improve your organisation’s work life balance success? This presentation brings together key themes evident in creating a successful work life balance culture, as demonstrated by Australia’s leading work life balance employers. We share this information as we believe by creating work life balance together, that both organisations and employees can achieve significant benefits.

Employers can support their staff to achieve work life balance in a variety of ways, but also at no or very low cost. The ability to eliminate the financial burden creates the opportunity for more organisations, particularly small or not-for-profit employers to implement work life balance support for their workforce.

An agreed work life balance definition has been difficult to obtain since the concept emerged in the late 1970’s. A common theme around defining work life balance is the ability for an individual to successfully manage work and everything else that makes up an individual’s life.

Employee’s awareness of your organisation’s work life balance options is one of the key elements of a successful work life balance strategy and program. Organisations may offer leading edge initiatives that support an individual’s quest to live a balanced life, however without “bums on seats” through communication, education and promotion of such options, even the best program may not even get off the ground.