WorkLifeBalance.com Curriculum Overview*

5 Steps to Better Work-Life Balance Core Courses

WorkLifeBalance 101/102 – More Value and Balance from Every Relationship

These two combined courses lay the foundation for the entire 5 Steps to Better Work-Life Balance curriculum. They cover three of the Steps that focus on more value and balance on and off the job, every day. Approximate time to complete is two hours.

Learning Objectives and Results:

• A Practical Framework for a better work-life balance.
• Work-Life Balance Defined. What it means; what it doesn’t mean; how it changes.
• Individual responsibility & accountability.
• The best work/life/career balance is different for each of us and varies over time.
• Achieve & Enjoy More At Work & In Your Personal Life
• TAP, WIN, AM&PM Steps- People & Relationships – Specific tools and immediate applications that result in more value, balance, follow-through and focus daily, on & off the job
• Increased productivity
• Reduced stress
• More organized
• More value from relationships
• Improved communication with family, friends and co-workers
• More value and balance every day!

WorkLifeBalance 103 - PATH - Better Professional and Personal Decision Making, Prioritizing & Project Execution

This course delivers an exceptionally quick and easy tool to prioritize a multitude of complex demands and complete the most valuable of those quickly. Approximate time to complete is one hour.

Learning Objectives:

• More confident decision making
• Improved professional and personal project execution
• Fewer items "falling through the cracks"

WorkLifeBalance 104 - Emphasis Settings - Shifting Balance Between Your Life Quadrants

A change orientation tool that enables quick and significant short-term shifts in your primary life emphasis as demands rapidly change. Approximate time to complete is one hour.

Learning Objectives:

• More value and balance for yourself and those important to you both onand off the job.
• Being able to quickly shift your balance as necessary
• Realizing changing emphasis is necessary throughout life

WorkLifeBalance 105 - The Results Orientation of Your Work and Life

The tool taught in this course helps to crystallize your personal results orientation as well as the value and enjoyments that drive you to produce those results. Approximate time to complete is one hour.

Learning Objectives:

• Creation of four way-of-working and way-of-life goals
• Realizing achievement and enjoyment as lifetime motivators
• Your own personal values and enjoyments that drive you to produce results

5 Steps to Better Time Management Core Courses

WLB 121 & 122 - 5 Steps to Better Time Management - Three specific time management tools immediately result in your getting more done in less time both on and off the job.  Routinely accomplish the priorities that add the most value, productivity and balance to your work and life.  The three tools & key tips result in better use of time to multiply value in every relationship, end procrastination, better prioritize multiple & conflicting priorities, effectively handle emails & phone calls, stay in focus despite constant interruptions, and more effectively use a planner.

WLB 123 - PATH - Better Decision Making, Prioritizing & Project Execution - Manage and drive performance through better decision making and project execution.  Delivers an exceptionally quick and easy tool to prioritize a multitude of complex demands and complete the most valuable of those quickly.  Simultaneously prevents other priorities of importance from falling through the cracks.  Improves decision making confidence and quality while reducing unproductive stress.

WLB 124 - Emphasis Settings - Shifting Balance Between Your Life Quadrants ? A change orientation tool that enables quick and significant short-term shifts in your primary life emphasis as demands rapidly change.  The tool incorporates the changes and important shifts necessary to create more value and balance for yourself and those important to you both on and off the job.

WLB 125 - The Results Orientation of Your Work and Life ? Use the specific tool in this course to crystallize your personal results orientation as well as the value and enjoyments that drive you to produce those results.  Four important way-of-working and way-of-life goals result from this one-hour course.  Not your typical short to mid-term goals, these four unique goals keep you from losing site of the achievements and enjoyments that motivate you to perform at your peak over a lifetime.

5 Steps to Better Leadership Core Courses

WLB 201 & 202 - lay the foundation for the entire Leadership curriculum and cover Steps 2 (relationship building), 4 (commitment & follow through) & 5 (focus & change management) in depth. They include:

• Introduction (201) - A Practical Framework for driving productivity while increasing individual contributors' respect, trust and appreciation for the leader and for your firm.
• A Better Way of Work - A Better Way of Life - Achieve & Enjoy more at work & in life
• Team Effectiveness - Assist and motivate your team to higher levels of Achievement & Enjoyment
• TAP, WIN, AM&PM (202) - People & Relationships - More Value, Follow-Through And Focus Daily, On & Off The Job
• Much more effective delegation & follow-up
• Leading people & managing things - The critical difference

WLB 203 - applies our project and activity management sorting and prioritization tool (Step 3) to accelerate individual and team project completion.

• PATH, WIN, AM&PM - Managing Projects & Activities To Greater Professional & Personal Accomplishment
• Much more timely project execution for yourself and with and through others

WLB 204 - delivers an important methodology for managing and keeping perspective during constant change and to regularly assess the leader's and team's overall life balance and shift emphasis as needed.

• Evaluating Change & Progress, Shifting Your Emphasis Settings

WLB 205 - a detailed look at setting "Way of Life" goals in each quadrant of the "Big Picture" (Step 1)

• Way Of Life Goals - Setting Individually Specific "Way of Life Goals" for Work, Family, Friends and Community & Self
• Knowing every day what you want your Big Picture to look like

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Management Level Courses

WorkLifeBalance 301 - a must for Executives, Management, Supervisors, Trainers & Work/Life Professionals

• Driving Performance Through Personal Accountability & Commitment - Why "better Work-Life Balance" Is The Key Business & Human Resource Opportunity Of The Coming Decade!

WorklifeBalance.com Intranet Tool-Kit & Resource Gateway

The WorkLifeBalance.com Intranet Tool-Kit & Resource Gateway allows your organization to create a special Work/Life tool-kit and e-HR portal on your Intranet. This portal provides access to WorkLifeBalance.com online training and is a showcase for the other Work/Life programs, initiatives, benefits and commitments made for your employees. Internal Work/Life programs and resources are more effectively promoted to increase awareness and ROI. Articles, resources, links and other information can be incorporated into the portal based on the scope of the organization's Work/Life strategy. With the easy access "Big Picture" desktop Gateway icon, a Work/Life showcase to maximize real and perceived value for your employees and organization is just a mouse click away.

Annual License Program

The foundation of the WorkLifeBalance.com training and resource solution is our proven Work-Life Balance framework and tools. It is the Education and Training component and cornerstone of a comprehensive Work/Life strategy and ongoing commitment to a highly effective Work/Life culture. The Annual License Program includes enrollment in the complete WorkLifeBalance University online 'core curriculum' with access to regular additions, updates and advanced courses. It provides everyone in an organization with a proven, always-available Work/Life resource, directly relevant to work at your company and their personal lives.

Training Options

Programs can be delivered online via the WorkLifeBalance.com e-Learning portal, live by WorkLifeBalance.com facilitators or live by your certified Train-The-Trainer personnel and in combinations of the three delivery models.

All courses can be customized and adapted for company specific relevance and impact.

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