Making work life balance work for you.

Craig King draws on over 37 years of executive experience, mentoring, and coaching not only to C-Suite executives, but across all levels from the CEO to the newly-hired college graduate.

His style and approach, his wit and compassion have made him a perfect ally to help navigate your life experiences and help you grow, not only professionally, but personally. With Craig you are guaranteed to develop resilience and a capacity to change. Learn more about him here.

How's your work-life balance lately? With remote and hybrid work becoming the norm over the last two years, here are three articles that I hope you find helpful.

What Will Work-Life Balance Look Like After the Pandemic?

This article looks at the Pre-Pandemic the concept of the “ideal worker” with total dedication and discusses how that archetype is totally unrealistic and assumes full time caretaking. Now, with all of us working from home, trying to balance our families and careers many employers are realizing accommodations are essential for their workers to function. The question is: Will these accommodations continue? Can employers develop a system for real workers and not just the “ideal workers"?

Work-Life Balance Is a Cycle, Not an Achievement

It seems we all struggle with work life balance. And we know that long hours over a long-term adversely impact our health.?Often, we commit or our employer commits to strategies to achieve a balance. Only to find the commitment achieves some success for a period of time and then fades away and nothing has really changed. The authors of this article, through their research, conclude that work life balance is not a onetime event its is a cycle of continuous re-evaluation and improvement. They lay out five distinct steps that makeup this cycle.?

As leaders, it's important that we model a behavior of established boundaries. With a combination of the pandemic, technology, and market competition, it can be hard to establish and enforce our boundaries. Rebecca Zucker provides six strategies to help achieve better work-life balance sustainability through setting and keeping boundaries in this article.