21 Friday Oct 2016
Posted in Personal, Work Life Balance
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This blog was started in 2006. I was professionally active then, busy with training, coaching, and consulting. I was fascinated with the concept of Work Life Balance as I saw people around me scramble to achieve a good balance and be successful at work and play. From here came the title of the blog, “People at Work & Play”. Continue reading
18 Friday Apr 2014
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A to Z Challenge, blogging, career development, future of HR, professional blogs, Work Life Balance
I had posted earlier about the ongoing Blogging A to Z Challenge. When I got to the letter “P” it was without any hesitation that I said, P for me is for “People at Work & Play” this very blog which has given me a lot of pleasure over time. I am happy to see that even if my posts have become rather infrequent, people still check out the old posts that caught their fancy. It gives me a lot of satisfaction to know that the material here is of some use, especially to young professionals starting out in their careers as many posts have information which can help them succeed at work. Continue reading
03 Wednesday Dec 2008
Posted in A Step A Day
Even if I say so myself, I am honestly amazed and quite gratified to see that “A Step A Day” has completed one year. Yes, there have been 365 posts in this series which was kicked off with the first being posted on November 27, 2007.
29 Saturday Nov 2008
Posted in A Step A Day, Work Life Balance
For those of you who, like most others, are struggling with life balance issues, I would like to recommend “How To Practice The Art Of Life Balance”. This is an ebook complied by Stacey Hoffer Weckstein of Create A Balance which you can download for free:). It is a compilation from 32 bloggers who participated in a group writing project. The topics are diverse, the perspectives are manifold but they all have a common theme- attaining and maintaining life balance.
24 Monday Nov 2008
Posted in A Step A Day, Work Life Balance
I enjoyed reading a post by Stephanie Vora called ” Are You Happy With Your Work/Life Balance? ” . Ms. Vora, a certified coach in the UK lists a series of questions to prompt you to think about how “in-balance” your life is. So much is said and talked about work/life balance these days. I ask: What does it mean to you? Is it about the number of hours you spend at work? Is it about the lack of time and energy to do anything other than work?
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04 Tuesday Nov 2008
Posted in A Step A Day, Work Life Balance
Work/life balance is getting more attention in the corporate world than ever before as people struggle to make the best of what life offers them or cope with what life flings at them- at work and at home. In this context, it is interesting to see how different organizations seek to facilitate a better work/life balance for their people. I came across an article by Pamela Weinsaft in The Glass Hammer – an on-line community designed for women executives.
29 Wednesday Oct 2008
Posted in A Step A Day, Work Life Balance
Just read a blog post about Work-Life Balance that I thought was very well written and specially meaningful. It is by Dr. Mary Coussons-Read in her site Powerful Mind Coaching. She is the Professor of Psychology and Health & Behavioural Science at the University of Colarado, Denver.
She writes of how we have grown to believe that work is supremely important. We end up with a sense of guilt that we have not been able to spend as much time on other non-work events- which are equally important.
23 Thursday Oct 2008
Posted in A Step A Day
If you were to ask me about the most striking difference between today and a decade ago, I would have no hesitation in saying it is the extent of connectivity we enjoy. Born out of this is the mushrooming of opportunities to get involved in and even start social networks. I have had the pleasure of reaching out to and interacting with people in different parts of the world-which would have been beyond possibility a decade ago. Starting from the pioneering Yahoo Groups, I got involved in Ryze and LinkedIn. I now have over 500 contacts in LinkedIn and have gained from my interactions with most of them.
22 Wednesday Oct 2008
Posted in A Step A Day
I wonder if you noticed that evenings at an executive retreat tend to lend themselves to nostalgia. The day’s work is done and as you sit and yarn, sooner or later someone in the group speaks of old times. This happens with unfailing regularity. You hear happy stories and sad ones- from the past. They could cover virtually anything- a childhood memory, an opportunity gone by, the amazingly low costs of those days or simply about things that you wish you had done – but couldn’t , or more often than not, didn’t.
A constant theme I hear is that we wish we could have spent more time with the family. Spent more time with our children when they were growing up -and perhaps needed us the most. And in pursuing interests which we can’t do now- for reasons of health or affordability. Some comments that one hears quite frequently:-
10 Wednesday Sep 2008
Posted in A Step A Day
The old gag has the HR Head addressing new recruits in their induction: ” We follow flexitime here. Make yourself comfortable. Feel free to come in as early as you can and stay as late as you can”. Jokes aside, many organisations in India are becoming more alive to tweak their systems to enable employees some amount of choice in getting to and away from the workplace. A recent article by Madhavi Rajyadaksha in the Economic Times mentions how, amongst others, Godrej and Hindustan Unilever have adopted such practices at Mumbai.
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