Keep Your Talent. Expand Your Work-Life View

It’s not your working mom’s work/life anymore.
It turns out Work/Life strategies are important to a spectrum of employees, more so than ever before.
Why expand your view? If you support an employee’s work/life, you can plug a costly leak in the talent pipeline.
I lead Work/Life workshops for corporate audiences. When the doors open at a Work/Life event, working moms find they have company.
In addition to working mom’s, look out in the audience & you’ll see…
• Men who don’t want to miss out on their children’s lives. Couples who are “child free.” Women and men caring for elderly relatives.
• Millennials who refuse to stay in their cubicles, Boomers who want to leave their legacy, Gen X’ers who lived through the restructuring years.
• Young Professionals building their careers. Retirees phasing into their next adventure.
Work/Life is NOW more important than EVER
So, I expanded my business – originally called the Working Parent Café into a bigger tent called Work/Life Pursuit.
Corporations who want to keep their talent are paying attention to the trends too. Work/Life challenges apply across the employee base. The smart money says building work/life strategies can stop leaks in the talent pipeline.
After all, who wants to lose talent after investing in the hiring and training process?
• Replacement costs are generally reported at 50% – 150% of salaries.
• Helping employees to find meaning in their work results in 30% – 300% more innovation and productivity.
• “Having a life” gives employees an energy boost and reduces high cost illnesses that come from unending stress.
Keep your talent
1. Employee Assistance Programs offer work/life services that are underutilized. Get the boss to champion these services to employees and he/she will be an instant hero!
2. Employee Network Groups can pool their resources and sponsor a Work/Life event, such as a Lunch & Learn or a Workshop.
3. Corporate training curriculum can include facilitated Mastermind small groups, which are venues for employees to share work/life experiences and discuss self-help books.
About Karen (http://wp NULL .me/P2uU3I-13)
Want to read more about work/life benefits? Happiness-at-work-report (http://www NULL .vitae NULL .ac NULL .uk/CMS/files/upload/Happiness-at-work-report-2013 NULL .pdf) ; Exercising at work – who’s it good for (http://www NULL .bristol NULL .ac NULL .uk/news/2008/6063 NULL .html)
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