Work/Life Balance Assessment
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10/25 Luma Learning Lesson #9: Work/Life Balance Assessment
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Objectives
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Estimated Time60 minutes |
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Materials
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Instructional Procedures for F2F
| 1. | Write or project on the board/wall this question: What is work/life balance? |
| 2. |  Optional: Arrange the room in pods, pairs or table groups.  |
| 3. |  The purpose of this introduction activity is to see what groups already know and get a sense on how they currently feel about their work/life balance. |
| 4. |  Tell the class: “I want you to come up with as many words, definitions, thoughts about this question. I am going to give you 5 minutes to brainstorm.” Set your timer and stop at the end of 5 minutes. |
| 5. | Go around the groups and have them reveal their list of words/thoughts. Write or project on the board/wall. If there is a duplicate, have the groups cross that work/thought off of their list. |
| 6. | Option: The group(s) that have the most unique words left on their list get a prize or award everyone for participating. You can use candy, gum, hats, shirts, or even stickers. People like to be recognized! |
| 7. | Ask: “Show with a raise of hands how many participants feel that they have a quality work/life balance.” |
| 8. | Invite participation, asking why they do or do not have a quality work/life balance. |
| 9. | Pass out page 3 to 6 of the Questionnaire for Self-Assessing Your Work-Life Balance. Have participants take the quality of work/life assessment. |
| 10. | Have them add up their points and divide by the # of questions they scored 1 or higher. So, if they scored 43 questions 1 or higher they divide by 43. |
| 11. | At the completion of the assessment, discuss the results. It might be easier to copy the table on page 1 and write or project it on the board/wall. Discuss results with the class. |
| 12. | Share strategies of balancing work commitments and personal commitments. |
| 13. | For anyone that did not fall in the good category, have them work with a partner to set at least 2 goals next month they will work on to work towards creating work/life balance. |
| 14. | Follow up next month with these participants to see how things are going. This shows you care and want them to live a healthy lifestyle. |
| 15. | If you are a Luma client, you can provide the eNugget® on Work/Life balance as a way to review the important points and to give them some ideas on possible goals |
Instructional Procedures for Online
| 1. | Add a discussion board title, “Work/Life Balance” with this question: What is work/life balance? |
| 2. | The purpose of this introduction activity is to see what groups already know and get a sense on how they currently feel about their work/life balance. |
| 3. | Send out an email to all participants: “I want you to come up with as many words, definitions, thoughts about a question I posted in the discussion board. I am going to give you 1 week to brainstorm.” |
| 4. | Option: The group(s) that have the most unique words left on their list get a prize or award everyone for participating. You can use points for a leaderboard, badges, call outs in the discussion board. People like to be recognized. |
| 5. | Post this question in the discussion board: “How many participants feel that they have a quality work/life balance? Why do you or do you not feel you have a quality work/life balance.” |
| 6. | Assign participants the Work/Life eNugget® if you use Luma to get background on this topic. Included in this is the posted self-assessment that they can calculate their own personal work/life balance score. |
| 7. | Have them add up their points and divide by the # of questions they scored 1 or higher. So, if they scored 43 questions 1 or higher they divide by 43. |
| 8. | At the completion of the assessment, have them post the results in a Questionnaire for Self-Assessing Your Work-Life Balance discussion board. |
| 9. | In that discussion board, have them share at least 1strategy of balancing work commitments and personal commitments. |
| 10. | For anyone that did not fall in the good category, have them post at least 2 goals next month to work on to create work/life balance. |
| 11. | Follow up next month with these participants to see how things are going. This shows you care and want them to live a healthy lifestyle. |
Did you know?
Luma® is a learning and instructional design company that can help you customize your own learning solutions through our training platform DRIVE FIRST®. We have a Work/Life balance eNugget® because social emotional needs are important for the holistic well-being of an employee. Interested in learning more? Give us a call at (574) 807-8148 ext 5 or email info@learnwithluma.com.
