Prepare managers for the emotional load work-life balance places on them.
Building a Healthy Balance Between Personal Life and Work
Build a working method for work-life balance that stands up to scrutiny and survives daily pressure.
📍 Cairo🗓️ 5 training days📚 4 modules🎓 Accredited certificate
5intensive training days
4scientific modules
8training sessions
32detailed points
Course Overview
Data on work-life balance is abundant; insight about it is not. People decide what the wider people management and development agenda really means by watching who gets promoted. The outcome is a practitioner who can hold a position on this area of people management and development and revise it on evidence. Post-incident reviews keep identifying weaknesses in work-life balance that were visible long before the incident. A common pattern is strong design of the practice within people management and development paired with weak follow-through. The material serves both public bodies and commercial organisations dealing with the people management and development discipline. Every module pairs a short input on work-life balance with structured practice on the participant's own material. It concentrates on the parts of the wider people management and development agenda that determine outcomes and treats the rest proportionately. Participants finish with a short, specific brief on this strand of people management and development ready to put in front of a decision maker.
Expected Learning Outcomes
Address the equity and inclusion implications of work-life balance deliberately.
Translate policy on work-life balance into procedures that hold up under day-to-day pressure.
Identify the failure points in work-life balance most likely to cause loss, and control them first.
Plan the handover of work-life balance so that capability is not lost when key staff move on.
Design the communication that makes work-life balance understood rather than merely announced.
Assess the cost of work-life balance and the cost of leaving it as it is.
Who Should Attend
Senior leaders accountable for the culture work-life balance produces.
Technical staff being prepared for supervisory responsibility over work-life balance.
Recruitment and resourcing staff affected by work-life balance.
Managers with direct responsibility for work-life balance within the workforce.
Employee relations specialists handling cases arising from work-life balance.
Line managers who apply work-life balance in practice.
Course Modules
Work-life balance: communication and employee understanding
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Writing a policy on work-life balance a line manager can actually use
- Define who decides on work-life balance and who may only recommend.
- Document the reasoning for every exception granted under work-life balance.
- State the purpose of work-life balance in one sentence a new manager would understand.
- Draft the minimum viable people policy for work-life balance.
Session 2Making work-life balance work when resources are constrained
- Benchmark the organisation's work-life balance against comparable operations.
- Define the trigger that would require work-life balance to be redesigned.
- Design the communication for work-life balance around the questions people will actually ask.
- Define acceptance criteria for work-life balance in advance.
Work-life balance: fairness, equity and consistency
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Where work-life balance typically breaks, and why
- Set the annual review point for work-life balance and who attends.
- Remove steps in work-life balance that add effort without adding assurance.
- Pilot changes to work-life balance in one area before wider rollout.
- Review work-life balance for unintended equity effects across groups.
Session 2Building lasting competence in work-life balance
- Collect evidence on the present handling of work-life balance before proposing changes.
- Review whether work-life balance is aligned with the objectives of the workforce.
- Agree the indicators that will show whether work-life balance is improving.
- Check that work-life balance complies with current labour regulation in every location.
Work-life balance: cost, benefit and workforce planning
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Reviewing work-life balance against what actually happened
- Arrange the handover of work-life balance so capability survives staff changes.
- Ask employees what work-life balance feels like from their side.
- Establish what evidence demonstrates work-life balance is under control.
- Train line managers on work-life balance rather than handling every case centrally.
Session 2The exception to work-life balance that sets the precedent
- Confirm that reporting on work-life balance reaches the people who can act.
- Record the rationale for each significant choice made about work-life balance.
- Measure the effect of work-life balance on retention and performance, not activity.
- Script the difficult conversation work-life balance requires and rehearse it.
Work-life balance: records, privacy and legal defensibility
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Applying work-life balance consistently to the person you like least
- Compare intended and actual outcomes of work-life balance honestly.
- Agree what will be standardised in work-life balance and what will not.
- Identify the data already collected that bears on work-life balance.
- Plan succession for roles most exposed to work-life balance.
Session 2Piloting a change to work-life balance before committing
- Confirm that contractual obligations around work-life balance are understood.
- Estimate the resource work-life balance requires to run as designed.
- Identify the data the organisation already holds that bears on work-life balance.
- Set the consistency check that catches uneven application of work-life balance.
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Silver Package
At least 3 people
USD1,250
- Workshop or Program Participation
- Airport Transfers
- Customized Badge
- Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
- Supervision & Secretarial Services
- Accredited Certificate of Participation
- Complete Training Kit
- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
Gold Package
At least 3 people
USD1,850
- 5-night stay in a 5-star hotel
- Workshop or Program Participation
- Airport Transfers
- Customized Badge
- Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
- Supervision & Secretarial Services
- Accredited Certificate of Participation
- Complete Training Kit
- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
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