Strategies for Better Balance


Overview/Description
Target Audience
Expected Duration
Lesson Objectives
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Overview/Description
"It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours."--Sam Ewing. This course focuses on the actions you can take to achieve a more balanced life. It begins by helping you to explore ways in which you can create some space in order to bring more nourishing and energizing activities into your life. The course will show you how to build practical systems into your days and weeks that will support you in making the necessary adjustments to your life. As life balance constantly shifts, you will also consider early warning signs to look out for, so that you can make the necessary adjustments as you go along. Finally, this last course in the series will enable you to create a vision of a satisfying, balanced life for yourself.

Target Audience
Anyone who wants a balanced life in order to increase his or her satisfaction, energy and productivity.

Expected Duration (hours)
5.0

Lesson Objectives

Reducing Demands

  • identify the benefits of knowing how to reduce demands on time.
  • match passive, aggressive, and assertive responses to the behaviors associated with each.
  • use assertiveness techniques to define boundaries in a given scenario.
  • determine to what extent a delegation strategy is used effectively in a scenario.

    • Making Changes

  • identify the benefits of having the right tools and strategies to make appropriate life balancing changes.
  • apply the strategy required to create and pursue a vision.
  • apply the PMI technique to evaluate a possible change.
  • take the actions necessary to develop supportive relationships, in a scenario.
  • recognize examples of the actions associated with making space and making time.

    • Fitting in with the Big Picture

  • identify the benefits of being able to see the "big picture" when taking action to put life in balance.
  • match the four phases of a life change cycle to the characteristic feelings and appropriate actions associated with them.
  • match the two elements of the reframing process to examples of the considerations required to explore each element.

    • Course Number:
    PD0183