10 Ways to Increase Work Life Balance

 

Lets talk work life balance!

 

1) Only work from one place in your house.  Do not allow your business or profession to spill in to every room within your home.

2) Be careful with your laptop as this business tool enables you to take your work into your bed-room. Allowing work into your private space!

3) Be very careful not to inappropriately mix business with pleasure.  There is much boundary setting when employing or working with friends or family members. These relationships are life long but can become very fragile quickly with devastating consequences!

4)  Make focussed planned time for your partner and your children.  Plan your family time and do not let your business or work interfere with that time.  For example: Don’t work on your (laptop) computer whilst watching a family programme.  Ensure you actively listen when your partner and children are talking to you.

5) Make time to connect with your thoughts and feelings everyday – if only for 20 minutes per day.  Take time to reflect and gather your thoughts. Review your time. Promote good self-care leadership and management techniques.

6) Ensure you do not neglect your key personal relationships especially your partner. The consequences can be dire. Especially if you have allowed the communications highways to be neglected!!

7) Make time for adult fun and intimacy in your life.   Natural hormones are released that help to stabilise and promote a sense of well-being.  Partners need love, affection and time and so do YOU.  A word of caution: If you loose your relationship along the journey then your children’s lives will be devastatingly affected which may impair their futures too!

8) Work on your mobile/blackberry/iPhone manners and ensure you develop family ethical ways of using this tool as this tool also has the capacity to encroach into all aspects and time within your life.

9) Try to commit to a hobby or interest outside of your relationships.  It is important to keep in touch with you.  To have time out.  Consider taking out a spa membership if you are not into a sport.  Try to take gentle exercise each and every day.  Remember that this could mean parking your car a little further away from your meeting and walking the rest of the journey.  Little strategies that can make a big difference.

10) Diary management. Ensure you plan ahead.  Put important dates in your diary including important dates for your child/ren and partner.  Such as: sports day, concerts, nativity plays, birthdays, anniversaries.

Remember, you are ultimately in charge of your life.  Don’t blame others and your life. Take small incremental steps to creating your meaningful future.  Work towards giving yourself the life you desire and deserve.

Don’t live your life in a bubble – not experiencing the world.  Break free, try new things. Engage a life coach. Value yourself, your goals and ambitions. After all, its your life and chances are that you will be responsible for the lives of others too.

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Controlling the Heat!

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Red Business Support Services

Wow, you must check this service out. It provides virtual business administration support. The services are offered as a unique package.

http://www.redbusinesssuportservices.co.uk

Yes it’s true #BNI #Darlington

We provide accredited training, business and life coaching, Interim Management and Family Mediation. 50% funding may be available to users of our services.

Available Courses
• Introduction to Leadership and Management
• Achieving Objectives Through Time Management
• Building the Team
• Managing Conflict
• Understanding Communication in the Workplace
• Understanding Safeguarding Adults in the Work Place
• Identifying and preventing vulnerable adults from being bullied in the work place.
• Bouncing Back
• Indentifying and Preventing children from being bullied in the work place.

All courses are delivered by qualified and experienced senior managers with experience and expertise in Public, Private and the Third Sector; In addition to being General Social Care Council Registered (GSCC).

Courses are delivered to individuals and groups of 1 – 6 people maximum, as the training is intensive and designed to lead to changed sustainable practices within the work place.

All courses are be-spoke to organisation; as such involve the use of Companies policies, procedures, mission statement, business plan and other relevant materials as appropriate.

Yvonne Cherrington DipSW MCMI
Managing Director
07794 524 772

Leadership and Management – Does the world need more? #Darlington #BNI

we provide accredited training, business and life coaching, Interim Management and Family Mediation. 50% funding may be available to users of our services.

Available Courses
• Introduction to Leadership and Management
• Achieving Objectives Through Time Management
• Building the Team
• Managing Conflict
• Understanding Communication in the Workplace
• Understanding Safeguarding Adults in the Work Place
• Identifying and preventing vulnerable adults from being bullied in the work place.
• Bouncing Back
• Indentifying and Preventing children from being bullied in the work place.

All courses are delivered by qualified and experienced senior managers with experience and expertise in Public, Private and the Third Sector; In addition to being General Social Care Council Registered (GSCC).

Courses are delivered to individuals and groups of 1 – 6 people maximum, as the training is intensive and designed to lead to changed sustainable practices within the work place.

All courses are be-spoke to organisation; as such involve the use of Companies policies, procedures, mission statement, business plan and other relevant materials as appropriate.

Yvonne Cherrington DipSW MCMI
Managing Director
07794 524 772

Accredited Training

Who’s offering accredited training?

Allow us to maximise your managers outputs and outcomes.

15th April 2011

Dear Manager,

Accredited Management Training

I write to inform you that we currently have four level 3 courses available for delivery to you and your workforce with new courses on offer each month.

Available Courses
• Introduction to Leadership and Management
• Achieving Objectives Through Time Management
• Building the Team
• Managing Conflict

All courses are delivered by qualified and experienced senior managers with experience and expertise in Public, Private and the Third Sector; In addition to being General Social Care Council Registered (GSCC).

Courses are delivered to individuals and groups of 1 – 6 people maximum. This is because the training is intensive and is designed to lead to changed sustainable practices within the work place.

All courses are be-spoke to your organisation; as such involve the use of your Companies policies, procedures, mission statement, business plan and other relevant materials as appropriate.

Please call us to today to book your training course.

Yours truly,

Yvonne Cherrington DipSW/HE MCMI
Managing Director
07794 524 772

Mobile tiles? #bni #Darlington #nefollowers

Couple launch mobile tile firm for home makeovers
1:58pm Friday 3rd December 2010

A HUSBAND-and-wife team have launched a new mobile business for kitchens and bathrooms.
The days of buying wall and floor tiles that look great in the showroom but are mismatched at home could be over if they have their way.
Self-employed tiler Ian Dobson and his wife, Nicola, of Newton Aycliffe, have launched the Mobile Tile Company which allows customers to see how products look in their home, rather than relying on guesswork at the store.

The couple can also offer advice on tiling ideas for traditional or feature walls.
Mr Dobson said: “Because we can work outside office hours, we also have a niche in the marketplace to service people who either can’t get out to find tiles or do not wish to spend personal or family time looking for tiles.

“In the coming years, we see ourselves as having two successful businesses that complement each other but also work independently and we hope to be in a position to create new jobs eventually.”
For more information, visit themobiletilecompany.co.uk.

http://mobile.darlingtonandstocktontimes.co.uk/business/8719255.Couple_launch_mobile_tile_firm_for_home_makeovers/

Selling more than just tiles? #BNI #Darlington #NEFollowers #westparkbni

The Mobile Tile Company

Nicola from the Mobile Tile Company is currently offering a free 1 hour consultancy session to make your home improvement dreams a reality. Wow.

Click on the title to learn a little more about the Mobile Tile Company

Does bullying happen to adults? #Darlington #BNI #NEFollowers

Topic: Bullying

Q: Does bullying happen to adults?
Being bullied isn’t only an issue for children and young people. Bullying is also very prevalent within the home and the work place. Bullying and harassment can take place for men as well as women of all ages.

Is being bullied something that only children and young people incur?

Q: Why do people sometimes feel bullied within the work place?
For a multitude of reasons, people feel the need, desire or will to abuse their power over their subordinates or colleagues.

Q: Can managers be bullied by their employees?
Of course, situations do arise where subordinates, or colleagues within the work place bully and harass their managers too.

Q: Can men be bullied within their homes?
Yes, domestic abuse can take place between male and female partners where the female partner inflicts physical and or mental abuse upon their male partners. This can become very embarrassing for men and an issue that they find exceptionally difficult and embarrassing to seek help to deal with. Which can often lead men to unnecessarily suffer for continuous periods without seeking any help or support to deal with domestic abuse.

What can you do if you are being bullied?
This is actually a very difficult issue as some organisations penalise the victim for reporting being bullied. Some members of the workforce may also be inclined to further seek to victimise the bully and side with the perpetrator. It is important to note that fair play does not always take place.

There may be many options that you may wish to consider and one option may be to seek a planned exit from the situation that you are facing as you may ultimately win the battle but not the war that you are dealing with. It is important to be very much aware that fighting bullies can be painful and time consuming. It may also have a detrimental effect upon your health, family and emotional wellbeing.

Although many organisations have excellent policies and procedures in place, this does not necessarily mean that they will effectively and efficiently invoke their grievance, bullying or harassment procedures.

All this said, careful thinking and strategies need to be invoked by the victim, making sure that they have strong and effective support mechanisms in place to support them through their decision making processes as the decision to fight or flight should be yours and supported by your key others too.

Consider invoking the services of life coach to support you through the change and action process.

Red Pressures
Controlling the Heat!
www.redpressures.co.uk
twitter.com/RedPressures

Giving something back and gaining something special #Darlington #BNI #NEFollowers

We have previously shared that we are sponsoring Spraire Lads and Lasses U11′s North team.

We commissioned Eddy Ellwood of Unit 22, Parkview Industrial Estate, Prospect Way, Hartlepool to make our strips which were designed in partnership with Red Pressures and LocalRus.

Today, we received acknowledgement from the club’s Chairman which was very nice.
Please contact Chairman Spraire Lads and Lasses – Jason Crowther on 07919 568 537 for further details of how to sponsor a Darlington Spraire Lads Team.

Draft picture by Filmar Photography.

It is good to give.

Givers Gain - How rewarding it is to sponsor a local team.

Thanks for Sponsoring a local children's football team

Picturing your child’s talents-End of season squad shots #BNI #NEFollowers #Darlington #football

Introducing Phil from Filmar Photography.

This offer is just to good to miss. That is why our Darlington Spraire Lads and Lasses Under 11′s North Team have quickly snapped up this deal.

Filmar are offering end of season squad shots featuring a 10” x 8” high quality print with your choice of wording as a footer PLUS individual head and shoulder shots to 7” x 5” of all team members and officials – just £55 which is amazing for a professional photo shoot.

For a twenty member squad plus officials, that works out at less than £3 each. Ideal for sports teams, guides, scouts, clubs, troupes etc.