36 STRESS RELIEF
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It can often prove tough to separate your professional and private life when the work starts piling up. GeOrGe Carey turns life coach for a day and tells you how
verybody knows how difficult it can be to maintain a good work/life balance and for school business managers, this ethereal ideal can seem impossible. The ever-extending remit and burgeoning workload of SBMs can begin to look like an insurmountable challenge. Of course, this is not the case and anything can be overcome if dealt with in an organised and timely manner. So how do you meet the challenges of work, while maintaining a healthy personal life? Try these top tips.
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DEVISE A STRATEGY. Be clear about what’s important to you in life – writing down what you want to achieve in your personal and professional life will encourage you to realise that balance. Once you have established what you want to achieve, implement effective strategies to ensure that you realise your goal.
PRIORITISE RUTHLESSLY. The secret to using your time to maximum effect boils down to knowing what’s important and what can wait. But it’s critical to use the sharpest knife possible in trimming the essential from the secondary. “Learn to ask questions that help you determine the level of urgency,” says Krista Kurth, co-author ofrunning on Plenty at Work. “Negotiate longer lead times whenever you can and don’t give into the ‘instant-and-immediate answer’ syndrome. Treating everything as top priority is draining and depleting.”
LEARN TO SAY NO. Use your priority criteria to identify requests that simply aren’t worth your time. “I’ve learned that saying no to one thing opens the door to saying yes to something else,” says Kurth. “That can mean anything from cleaning my desk to getting a good night’s sleep.” a vital part of this is delegation. It’s neither practical nor possible for you to deal with everything and learning to trust your support staff with important tasks is a vital lesson.
as long as you promote a system of open and honest communication between you and your colleagues, you should be able to hand over tasks happily and focus on your own work, safe in the knowledge that it will be completed to a high standard.
REMEMBER, IT’S OK TO NOT WORK. Not working is actually beneficial; it gives you the ability to recharge and clear your mind. When you start to feel that guilt, immediately remind yourself that you need to separate from work and relax, so that you’re ready to go when you get back to work the next day. By taking time away from work, you are actually being productive.
DON’T WORK AT HOME. It’s too easy to pull out your laptop while sitting and watching TV in the living room to get a few things done. This can turn the entire house into your office and can easily lead to constant feelings that you should be working. Keep it at work and you can fully relax when you’re at home. Hopefully with these measures in mind, you’ll be en route to nonchalant
negotiation of your important duties. april 2013 \
www.edexec.co.uk
Use your priority criteria to identify requests that simply aren’t worth your time
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