WORK LIFE BALANCE is…

1. WORK LIFE BALANCE is… achieved when an individual’s right to a fulfilled life inside and outside paid work is accepted and respected as the norm, to the mutual benefit of the individual, business, and society. Taken from “The Work Foundation”

2. Importance…… 1. Valuing the employee for their contribution to the workplace, not for their work pattern 2. Promotion and maintenance of the highest degree of physical, mental, and social well-being of workers

3. DO ORGANIZATIONS NEED, WORK LIFE BALANCE FOR EMPLOYEES • Workforce shortage • Retirements • Recruitment • Retention • 24 hour access (e-tools)

4. RETENTION • Family situations • Retain the new workers who can and will go elsewhere • Needs/desires - survey

5. RECRUITMENT • New generation’s views on work • Need to provide benefits/initiatives that will make them choose us over others

6. EMPLOYEE BENEFITS: • Decrease pressure • Able to better meet work/personal/society commitments • More time to do other things • Avoid traffic congestion • Help with child/elder care arrangements • Travel/Education source: Off the Treadmill 2002

7. BUSINESS BENEFITS: • Employee satisfaction • Attract/retain employees • Decrease labour turnover • Increase employee productivity • Improved reputation • Decrease absenteeism • Improved business results

8. WHAT WILL IT DO FOR SOCIETY? • Reduce health care costs • Encourage and enable family involvement • Reduce commuting – greenhouse gas • Encourage/enable volunteerism • Happier people - ?reduce conflict/violence • Better economy

9. Organizational Role ….. 1. FLEXIBILITY • Flextime • Compressed work week • Self scheduling

10. 2. REDUCED HOURS • Job sharing • Job splitting • Voluntary part time work

11. 3. AVAILABLE LEAVES • Short term leaves • Family related leaves • Deferred salary leave • Sabbaticals

12. 4. PLACE OF WORKTele-working • Tele-conferencing • Video-conferencing

13. WHERE DO ORGANIZATION START? • Gather the right people • Review initiatives in place now • Establish what % of people use them • Decide what initiatives the organization can and/or is willing to implement • Survey staff to see what they need and want

14. What is Spiritual Intelligence It is about – having a direction in life and – being able to heal ourselves of all the resentment It is thinking of ourselves as an expression of a higher reality.

15. NEW DIMENSIONs IN STUDY OF INTELLIGENCE • Dana Zohar and Ian Marshall introduced a new dimension to human intelligence. • Spiritual Quotient (or SQ) is the ultimate intelligence, they claim. • This is the intelligence used to solve problems of meaning and value. "Is my job giving me the fulfillment I seek?" "Am I relating to the people in my life in a way that contributes to their happiness and mine?"

16. THE BASIS OF SPIRUTALITY Humans are essentially spiritual beings, evolved to ask fundamental questions. "Who am I?" "Where am I going?" "What do others mean to me?"

17. THE BASIS OF SPIRUTALITY • Spiritual intelligence motivates people to balance their work schedules to spend time with the family. • An executive with a high SQ might look beyond profit margins and devote time for voluntary work with orphans. • Spiritual intelligence also addresses the need to place one's life in a shared context of value.

18. DIFFERENCE BETWEEN INDICES OF INTELLIGENCE SQ IQ EQ The transformative power of SQ distinguishes it from IQ and EQ. * IQ primarily solves logical problems. * EQ allows us to judge the situation we are in and behave appropriately. * SQ allows us to ask if we want to be in that situation in the first place.

19. Who Wins? Is It IQ or EQ or perhaps Both? "What really matters for success, character, happiness and life long achievements is a definite set of emotional skills - your EQ - not just purely cognitive abilities that are measured by conventional IQ tests." -Goleman “EI appears to be a myth than a science." - Mathews et a. “IQ gets you the job, EQ gets you the promotion." “EI matters twice as much as IQ." - Goleman

20. EVALUATION OF SQ * Is it incorrect to consider all religio-spiritual activity to be the pastime of the elderly, or those who have time hanging heavily on their hands?  * Are you drawn towards places of worship (temples, churches, gurudwaras, mosques, etc.) quite often? * Do you have a prayer room, or a place of prayerful focus, say an altar, in your home, where you devote some time to Communion with the Higher Forces? * Do you feel the need to seek guidance and Blessings from God whenever you are at the threshold of an important event in your life?

21. EVALUATION OF SQ * Do you feel the inner need to be with Nature to calm yourself and commune with Natural phenomena?  * Do you feel the urge to pick up books, or articles, on religious, spiritual or metaphysical subjects, whenever you see them? * Do you feel the urge to ask God's help, whenever any situation in your life seems to be out of your control? * Would you like to go on a holiday to a place of pilgrimage to provide joy to your mind body and spirit, in a composite manner?

22. EVALUATION OF SQ * If you suddenly heard a piece of devotional music, would it touch an unseen chord in your soul? * If somebody you know, or do not know, needs help, whether physically, emotionally or financially, does an instinctive urge spring from within your heart to provide whatever succour you are capable of giving? Give yourself 5 points for every 'Yes', 0 points for every 'No', and 3 points for every answer that you give as 'Sometimes".

23. Researchers have identified a 'God-spot' in the human brain. This area is located among neural connections in the temporal lobes of the brain. During scans with positron emission topography, these neural areas light up whenever research subjects are exposed to discussion of spiritual topics.

24. 'God-spot' is culture specific Westerners responding to ideas of 'God' and Buddhists and Hindus responding to certain symbols.

25. 'God-spot' While the God-spot does not prove the existence of 'God', it does indicate that the brain is programmed to ask ultimate questions.

26. Spiritual Intelligence We use spiritual intelligence to transform ourselves and others, heal relationship, cope with grief, and move beyond conditioned habits of the past.

27. How to develop High SQ To develop high SQ, each person needs to approach the task according to his/her personality

28. Types of personality CONVENTIONAL TYPE: THE PATH OF DUTY SOCIAL TYPE: THE PATH OF NURTURING INVESTIGATIVE TYPE: THE PATH OF KNOWLEDGE ARTISTIC TYPE: THE PATH OF PERSONAL TRANSFORMATION REALISTIC PERSON: THE PATH OF BROTHERHOOD ENTERPRISING TYPE: THE PATH OF SERVANT-LEADERSHIP

29. EIGHT SIGNS OF HIGH SQ 1. Flexibility 2. Self-awareness 3. An ability to face and use suffering 4. The ability to be inspired by a vision 5. An ability to see connections between diverse things (thinking holistically) 6. A desire and capacity to cause as little harm as possible 7. A tendency to probe and ask fundamental questions 8. An ability to work against convention

30. Importance of SQ • A high SQ is the best predictor of • happiness • serenity • good self-esteem • and harmonious & loving relationships

31. Importance of SQ People who know how to translate life's problems and struggles into spiritual issues can often find more gratifying and rewarding solutions to these problems through their spiritual IQs.

32. Three fold path of : • Sadhana • Aradhana and • Upasana • Need to be adopted

33. Immediate gains are : • Greater serenity • Better self-esteem and • Increased satisfaction

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