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In the fast-paced world of small business, achieving work-life balance is essential for both your team’s well-being and your business’s success. It’s about effectively managing professional responsibilities and personal life, setting clear boundaries, and prioritising both work and personal well-being. A healthy work-life balance reduces stress, prevents burnout, and boosts job satisfaction, allowing your team to stay focused and engaged while also enjoying their personal lives.
As a small business owner or manager, you play a pivotal role in fostering a supportive work environment. This includes implementing flexible policies, ensuring reasonable workloads, and respecting work-life boundaries. By leading by example, promoting open communication, and prioritising your team’s well-being, you can create a culture that values balance. While you provide support, your employees also have a responsibility to manage their time effectively and communicate their needs.
To help you cultivate a healthy work-life balance within your small business, we’ve compiled resources that offer guidance and practical tips, covering:
– Strategies for leaders to support their team’s work-life balance and mitigate work-related stress.
– Practical tips for establishing healthy boundaries in your daily work routines.
– Methods for assessing team recovery and effective management of work demands.
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The Recovery Calculator by the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health can be used to evaluate working conditions from the perspective of recovery and helps to understand challenges related to recovery. It guides you in identifying and solving challenges that are critical for recovery and proposes method cards, which your organisation can use to identify and implement operational models that promote recovery. The survey should be answered as a team that includes representatives of management, HR and occupational safety and health as well as personnel.
The article by Remote is for business owners, managers, or team leaders looking to prevent overworking and help their remote team members maintain healthy work-life balances.
This article by Strategy+Business discusses how establishing healthy boundaries in the workplace fosters trust among employees and enhances collaboration. It offers eight steps for setting boundaries for yourself.
Take a short quiz by the Canadian Mental Health Association to find out your work-life balance score. After the quiz see “Work-Life Balance: Make It Your Business” for tips and resources to help make it easier to strike a balance.
This self-evaluation tool from Mental Health UK helps you recognise what good well-being looks like for your, helping with identifying signs when things might not be going well. It can also be shared with your team to foster mutual support and awareness.
The “always-on” work culture is not only detrimental for our personal well-being but our work as well. Watch this TED talk to learn about the bad habits that stop us from getting what we need out of our free time and three practical steps for setting boundaries that stick.
This podcast episode from New Here podcast, created by the Harvard Business Review, discusses how to set and protect boundaries at work.