Work/Life Harmony, rather than work life balance

Work/ life balance as we know it at present isn't working.

• It's a “time-poor” concept, based on conflicting demands of employer and employee for a share of the 24/7 day.
• Separation of work and personal life roles has become a blur.  Work is just one of many roles that people perform in their 168 hour week.
• Family-friendly policies are now only one aspect of the work life balance issue.

Globally, economic growth depends on people having a strong work ethic.

Individuals however want a “life ethic”:

• working to live, rather than living to work,
• personal goals being the top priority over corporate goals
• emotional needs over material needs.

Work Life Harmony is the way to go – harmony of work and personal needs, goals and interests.

Harmony is the product of diversity. A choir or orchestra is a ‘mosaic' of unique individuals who come together periodically to produce a pleasing sound. Business has to find ways of maximizing the unique interests and potential of employees to achieve its own 'pleasing sound' - usually in the form of a quality service to customers and a satisfactory financial bottom line.

Steps to achieve a work/life harmony culture in the workplace include:

• Seeing the organization as a flat structure with all people of equal importance when it comes to work/life harmony issues
• round-table workshops involving teams and managers, to clarify issues inhibiting a satisfactory work/life harmony culture,
• group recommendations towards an action strategy to resolve:

1. readily-solvable issues, at little cost,
2. more difficult issues as resources permit

Our secret lies in our Human Energy Management program

If you would like more details and an exploratory discussion, call Peter Nicholls on 0417 817 027 or email us at peter@workleisure.com