Improving work performance leads to better life-work balance
As another career programme participant starts her role in a new sector this week, one more returned his evaluation of the career advancement programme today.
He had focused on improving his performance at work which, inadvertently, improved his life-work balance as he explained in the covering email:
“I did just want to say thanks for the amazing difference you have made to my life. I am still busy but busy and productive! And if it doesn’t get done – it didn’t need doing. I am so much more relaxed now and am achieving more at work and also with my children (and I really was missing them growing up; I can’t thank you enough for putting me back in touch with them).
“The strategy at work of not replying with an instant ‘yes’ to requests but pausing and reflecting on whether it is business critical to the business or to my development has worked a treat; I am much more effective at saying “no” because I feel comfortable that I am saying the right thing and can often suggest an alternative way of getting the task done”.
(edited to preserve anonymity)
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