Balancing Leadership Responsibilities and Your Personal Life

Leadership roles can be very rewarding and they’re something that many people strive for in their careers. However, the responsibilities of leadership can take a toll on your personal life. 

The Harvard Business Review covered recommended methods of navigating this balance. Although it might take some strategizing and “there’s no magic formula to make everyone involved happy all the time,” it is possible to craft a rewarding career and have a fulfilling personal life. 

Successful Balance Starts with Vision

Balancing work and a personal life — family, friends, hobbies and health — will not happen on its own. To accomplish this you must create a strategy and a vision.

When it comes to your business, having a vision is commonplace. However, having a vision for your personal life is important as well. What do you want your home life to be like? What about your friendships? Your hobbies?

In order to be successful in balancing work and home, you need to have a vision of what a successful professional and personal life will look like. This vision will be different for everyone, but there are a few strategies that can help facilitate this balance once you have come up with your vision. 

Strategies for Balance

Once you determine your goals, the following are a couple of strategies that can help you achieve those ideals — even as your professional and personal life changes over time. 

• Communicate. It is important that you and your loved ones are aware of your responsibilities at home and at work. Keeping lines of communication open is imperative to accomplishing your vision. Further, you can ask people familiar with your position for best ways to efficiently accomplish your management tasks so you are using your energy in an optimal way that aligns with your vision. 
• Strategize resilience. Everyone is going to experience setbacks — especially in leadership. The question is, how are you going to deal with it? One strategy is to schedule “white space” for rest and reflection while another is to identify allies that support you in times of crisis. 
• Reinvention mindset. As time goes on, your leadership role — and life — will eventually change. It is best to continually reassess your role to see how you can do it more effectively. Further, delegating some tasks and learning new skills can keep you fresh, efficient, and help you avoid burnout (which can translate into your personal life). 

These strategies are helpful tools, but what if you do not have a clear vision of professional/personal life balance? Or you are uncertain how you can implement the above strategies?

Forming Your Vision

If you and/or your team would like help framing your business, personal or team vision, or would like coaching to develop the strategies necessary to implement your goals, contact us at Boston Business Growth. We work with companies like yours to identify and accomplish their goals. 

Work/life balance is important for everyone — especially those in leadership. And the pandemic has made this need clearer and more important than ever. You owe it to yourself and your company to make sure everyone has a proper balance. To get started, simply contact us at Boston Business Growth.