How to Achieve Work Life Balance for Your Employees

The seven steps to achieving an effective Work Life Balance for your employees plus the four things not to do.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

1. Find out exactly what your employees needs are, and how far those needs are being met. There are six basic human needs. Those needs are, Certainty, Variety, Significance, Love&Connection, Growth and Contribution.

2. Focus on your organisations culture, the company mission statement is a good starting point.

3. Improve Personal and Organisational efficiencies, Set Goals for both the individual and the department.

4. Implement robust work life policies and benefit arrangements.

5. Inform your managers and train them effectively in how to manage work life balance issues.

6. Communicate the policies and the benefits to your employees.

7. Evaluate work-life balance success by measuring employee and customer satisfaction.

Tips & Warnings

• The four things not to do - DON'T Try to "impose" a work life balance, or introduce it without consultation and co-operation. Assume that you only need to target women with children or those employees with elderly dependants. Think that flexibility is only appropriate to certain work settings. Perhaps most importantly ..... Discriminate!