The document discusses the coach's role in helping clients achieve work-life balance. It defines work-life balance as managing conflicting demands on time and energy to satisfy well-being and self-fulfillment needs. The coach can help by raising awareness of balance issues, supporting exploration of forces that impact balance, and clarifying choices to align with personal values during times of change. The document also identifies six life aspects (job, career, family, health, self-fulfillment, community) and provides questions for clients to consider regarding priorities, boundaries, and stress management.
7. Work-Life Balance =
A state where an individual manages real
or potential conflict between different demands
on his or her time and energy in a way that satisfies their
needs for well-being and self-fulfilment
10. How the coach can help
Raising awareness of work-life balance issues and conflicts
Stimulating exploration and understanding of the forces that
support and undermine WLB for the client
Clarifying and evaluating choices
Linking aspirations of balance to client identity and personal
values
Support through change and setbacks
11. The six life-streams
Job
Career
Domestic/Family
Health/Fitness
Self-fulfilment
Spiritual/Community
12. Some key questions
What do I want from each aspect of my life?
How do I sort out the conflicting demands on my time, physical
energy and emotional energy?
How do I achieve the self-discipline to take charge of my life and
set boundaries for myself and others?
How do I recognise and manage the stress?
13. Managing the conflicts
Who defines whats important for you?
Let go/accept/move on
Distributing your time and emotion
How do you stop thinking about work?
How do you build space between activities?
14. Allocation of Space and Time
Space/time for distant others
(e.g. community)
Space/time for paid employment
Space/time for close others
Space/time for me
息 Clutterbuck Associates 2010
15. Managing the conflicts
Who defines whats important for you?
Let go/accept/move on
Distributing your time and emotion
How do you stop thinking about work?
How do you build space between activities?
16. A sense of work-life balance =
Awareness + Control
Of the big picture Externally focused
Of the current situation Internally focused
Clarity of values
息 Clutterbuck Associates 2010
17. Some critical questions
Where do the boundaries lie?
Does all executive coaching include an element of life coaching?
How responsible is the coach for the clients life choices?
Does the coach have to be a role model for work-life balance? If
not, how do we manage the credibility issue?
What if the client chooses not to have a balanced approach to
work and life?