Balancing work and life : training for supervisors

Abstract

The Balancing work and life - training for supervisors course is a nine-hour training programme that aims to improve supervisors’ ability and readiness to support employees in balancing their work and life at their workplace. The successful balance of these two life areas is an important element of well-being at work, which in turn enables good work productivity. During the programme, supervisors learn toutilize their own workplace’s working time arrangement s and other good practices for balancing work and life in their own work as a supervisor. They obtain information and tips, share their own experiences in a peer group, and formulate a personal development plan. The programme is meant for workplaces, to be carried out by developers of personnel, HR specialist s and others in suppor t functions who have been especially trained in the method. The manual contains the training programme, a description of the basic principles of the process, and material for the participants.