Product Description

Work-life balance picks up where conventional time management stops. After you have prioritised ruthlessly, learned how to delegate, dealt with interruptions, managed your managers, planned and reviewed and still find you are overworked then it is time to try something else. Use this book to re-establish control over your life and to understand the impact of work pressures and issues in your personal life, it will show you how to: audit your work-life balance to find out which areas are really causing you the most tension; establish what you want out of your work and your life outside work, this is important because your aspirations change; allocate time and other resources to ensure that work and life outside work are given the right priorities with reference to your emotional commitment; deal with the expectations of others; cope with specific issues such as the long hours culture, the excessive workload, the professional imperatives or being a carer as well as a teacher. The book outlines a range of strategies to help teachers to achieve the right work-life balance for them. It can also be used for whole school staff development programmes - after all work-life balance is the responsibility of head-teachers and governors too.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #281613 in Books
• Published on: 2006-03-31
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 112 pages

Review
"This is a heartening book: light at the end of the tunnel, in the form of specific ideas and a general invitation to put yourself back in control." The Times Educational Supplement, 30th June, 2006

From the Author
Work-life balance – a practical guide for teachers

I’m passionate about work-life balance because when I work in schools I see what can happen to teachers who lose track of work-life balance in their own lives.

I see teachers achieving less, suffering more illness and work-related stress, getting frustrated because they can’t fit all they want to fit into their lives and feeling guilty because it’s often their loved ones - the people who really matter to them - who suffer alongside them as they battle their way through life.

In this book I’ve drawn on my experience of helping teachers to deal successfully with a range of work-life balance challenges. Some of the challenges are school-based – like the culture and the job. Some are personal – like learning how to say "no" and meaning it or finding ways of switching off from school in the evening or at the weekend.

I think you’ll like the book. Use the audit to help you understand the particular work-life balance challenges you face. Then use the guidance in the book to help you change your approach to your working life and to your life outside work.

And in six months make a judgement about how much the quality of your life has improved. I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised.

From the Back Cover

Work-life balance picks up where conventional time management stops. After you have prioritised ruthlessly, learned how to delegate, dealt with interruptions, managed your managers, planned and reviewed and still find you are overworked then it is time to try something else.

Use this book to re-establish control over your life and to understand the impact of work pressures and issues in your personal life, it will show you how to:

• audit your work-life balance to find out which areas are really causing you the most tension
• establish what you want out of your work and your life outside work, this is important because your aspirations change
• allocate time and other resources to ensure that work and life outside work are given the right priorities with reference to your emotional commitment
• deal with the expectations of others
• cope with specific issues such as: the long-hours culture, dealing with excessive workloads, working in a caring profession as well as being a teacher.

The book outlines a range of strategies to help teachers to achieve the right work-life balance for them. It can also be used for whole school staff development programmes – after all work-life balance is the responsibility of head-teachers and governors too.