Balancing Work & Home: A practical guide to managing stress.
The book that helps take the stress out of combining work and family
and puts you back
in control! Provides guidance on how to deal with the practical and emotional
problems that can arise at work and home with dozens of ways for reducing
stress. All based on the experiences of those who really know - working
parents themselves.
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WORKING SOLUTIONS
Don't feel daunted by the catalogue of problems in the previous chapter.
There are ways to cope with them all, and starting to tackle them puts
you in control - one of the best antidotes to stress.
Bear in mind that it is to your employer's advantage that you should
feel happy and positive about work - it means that you will work better.
So although you might fear raising awkward issues, they should be brought
out in the open where they can be dealt with.
Employers need your skills. Replacing you costs money, time and administrative
effort - and employers know that experienced people generally performed
better, make fewer mistakes and need less supervisory time. In addition,
you are a better, more coordinated, mature worker for being a working
parent. If you can cope with toddler tantrums, you can cope with that
irate customer. Employers appreciate this, and many are making efforts
to accomodate parents.
CHECKLIST
Look at the difficulties you isolated in the TROUBLESHOOTER
checklist at the end of the last chapter. Take a separate sheet of paper
for each and answer the following questions:
1. What needs to change to make this better?
List all possible changes separately.
2. Who can make these changes?
Mark the ones you can do yourself, and those which need to be carried
out by someone else.
3. My Changes.
List the steps you need to take to make changes yourself, and then give
yourself a timetable for making them.
4. What I want someone else to do.
Look at what you are asking and, putting yourself in that person's
shoes, list all possible objections you can imagine the person making.
5. My answers.
Look at the objections and consider how you will deal with them. Do you
need extra information to back up your argument? Where will you get it?
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