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Work-Life Balance for Leaders

About this episode:

Is achieving “balance” your New Year's Resolution – every year?

Are you tired of Work-Life Balance training that only deals with stress and time management at the personal level, and ignores issues of leadership, or productivity?

And the practical “real-life” pressures that we all encounter? Finally, is there a better way to balance work and life – and succeed in both?

Join Randall Craig as he challenges the conventional wisdom, and provides specific, action-oriented guidance on how you can define a balance that powers your career – yet still gives you a life.

• What can you do to preserve it?
• How do you cut your burn rate, while still investing in critical areas?
• And when things are very tight, what things can you do, right now, to “find” needed cashflow?

Part 1

Part 2

Topics Discussed

• Quest for Work-Life balance - a Mirage or a Real Life Destination? (1:24)

• Do you find yourself working more to role model, or at time shielding your work commitments so as not to show that to your juniors? (8:16)

• What generational change is happening at the workplace regarding different expectations? (11:08)

• Is part of managing yourself is being able to detach from work and have mental long breaks? (14:07)

• How does The Busy Period/Time/Season look like for some organizations? (17:35)

• Balance within your ‘WORK” can be off balance more than the “work/life” false dichotomy you mentioned. Can you speak to that? (20:50)

• Can you speak on how you strongly recommend seeking support from OTHER CEOs to help manage the stresses of the role? (25:49)

• Perhaps you can speak to how you would measure if there is or isn’t balance? (28:17)

• Do you think being a “workaholic”, or being called a “workaholic,” is an insult or high praise? (0:25)

• Can getting an assistant (as we have from a VA firm, and we can share our recommendations) help? Or will the time just get filled with other things? (3:28)

• Or would you say the pressure that a leader feels is internal and not connected to cultural changes or external factors? (7:08)

• Did the pandemic affect the experience of leadership? (8:36)

• As a leader, how does compartmentalizing your tasks mean and help you stay organized? (13:42)

• Personal Balance Sheet Action Planner (16:57)

• What about the fear of failure and how that impacts the work-life balance for the leader? (22:41)

• What happens when your team take an extended vacation and the show goes on without them? (25:49)

• How to set boundaries between your colleagues? (28:03)

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