Work-Life Services

Based on the research and solutions incorporated into our book, "Dot Calm: The Search for Sanity in a Wired World," VirtualWorks! offers organizations information and tools to improve productivity, employee satisfaction and workforce retention.

And now available for an inspiring viewpoint on the importance of work-life balance, order:

Kid-wisdom on the question, “Why is working too much a problem?” Great for anyone who wants to achieve better work-life balance. Order today for yourself, your family & friends, your team – everyone in your organization!

Increased demands and stress

Studies conducted over the last decade indicate that people are working longer hours, are under more stress, and are quietly seeking some semblance of balance in their lives. Increasingly, overwork is being identified as not just a stress inducer, but as a very real medical problem leading to heart disease, cancer and other stress-related medical problems.
People are increasingly seeking ways to find balance, and some organizations are beginning to confront the issues seriously and proactively.

How do we find balance in light of conflicting demands? How do we maintain positive relationships with our families when working long hours? How do we deal with the overload created by e-mail and voice mail? In short, how do we live our lives in ways that make us productive and satisfied at work, at home, and in the community?

Solutions

Learn practical solutions to the challenges of achieving work-life balance

Order the book:

"Dot Calm: The Search for Sanity in a Wired World"

More Solutions!

Here’s a way to stop thinking and talking about work-life balance – and DO something about it. Order Finding DotCalm: The Search and Rescue Guide for Finding Your Sanity in the Wired World.

Finding DotCalm is an exciting package of books, CDs, and application tools. Find your way to Dot Calm utilizing the 40-page self-paced workbook, including exercises and discussion guidelines. Kit includes two books – Dot Calm: The Search for Sanity in a Wired World and Working Too Much Can Make You Grumpy. Includes two CDs – If I Were Brave (CD single by Jana Stanfield) and Keys to Work-Life Balance (from the DinnocenzoSpeaks series). Also includes a BONUS VIDEO – Dot Calm: The Search for Sanity in a Wired World.

Use this resource kit for forging a personal path to work-life balance – or order extra copies of the self-paced workbook to share with family members or co-workers, utilizing the exercises and discussion guidelines for group action planning.

For a more comprehensive approach to achieving work-life balance, schedule an VirtualWorks! workshop or presentation for your organization. Here’s a sampling of the workshops, training seminars, and presentations we can provide:

Workshops:

Steps that organizations can take in promoting work-life balance are addressed in the chapter, “How Organizations Help and Hinder” in our book:

"Dot Calm: The Search for Sanity in a Wired World"

VirtualWorks! helps organizations address critical work-life issues that lead to enhanced productivity. We provide materials, training, and consulting services to support and enrich work-life initiatives and strategies. Specific services include:

Books & Booklets

Work-Life Balance Seminars

• Work-Life Balance in the Digital Age
• Wired for Prosperity: Keys to Organizational Success
• Avoiding and Overcoming Burnout

VirtualWorks! frequently delivers short seminars and workshops focusing on how individuals can deal with information, access, and work overload in their lives. The major thrust of these workshops is developing individual strategies for achieving greater work-life balance.

We also offer the following seminar/services:

• Work-Life Balance in the Digital Age
• Wired for Prosperity: Keys to Organizational Success
• Avoiding and Overcoming Burnout
  

Presentations & Keynotes:

• Working Too Much Can Make You Grumpy!
  Work-Life Balance Solutions for the Time-Starved
• Over-Connected and Over-Informed
  Solutions to Burnout and Overwork
• Conscious Choices for a Well-Lived Life
  Rediscovering Meaning and Recapturing Focus

Our programs are typically tailored to specific needs of the organization and participants. Contact us to discuss your needs and how we can help you.

Focus

A key solution for achieving work-life balance is to maintain FOCUS in life and work. This involves being clear about priorities for one’s life, work, and day-to-day activities. To begin developing the necessary degree of focus to attain work-life balance,

Order our easy-to-use booklet:

How to Bring FOCUS to Your Life and Your Work

Leadership

Leadership is a critical variable in the approach organizations take in addressing work-life balance issues. For more information on leadership in today’s virtual workplace, visit:

Virtual Teams

What Organizations Can Do

The skill development programs offered by VirtualWorks! help individuals and organizations address the challenges related to work-life balance. Our programs focus on how individuals can work more productively in the digital age by targeting the demands and realities of constantly changing work environments. We offer programs and services to support the expanding work-life initiatives sponsored by enlightened organizations. We also help organizations establish or improve the integration of technology tools and communication methods for enhanced productivity.

Organizations have increasingly come to realize the importance of implementing work-life initiatives in support of their corporate values. Organizations that help workers successfully integrate their personal, and work lives find they have more productive employees, retain the best and brightest, and promote innovation.

VirtualWorks! provides a cost-effective, creative solution to many of these issues through its affiliation with Alignmark. Through this relationship, VirtualWorks! can provide your organization with LifeHub™.

LifeHub™ is devoted to healthier, more vital and more successful companies. It is an online subscription service designed to:

• Teach employees to convert stress into positive energy for optimum performance.
• Help employees stay healthy through online health education.
• Assist employees in balancing work and family life.
• Promote emotional well-being and personal happiness.
• Develop leadership skills and greater knowledge of the motivational aspects of being a leader.
• Optimize personal performance levels and create world class work teams.
• Improve relationships at work, in the family, and in the community.
• Improve parenting skills and help fulfill responsibilities for aging family members.
• Help employees to advance their careers by becoming better corporate citizens.
• Expand skills in planning and organizing personal finances.

For additional information, download an overview of:

LifeHub

Steps that organizations can take in promoting work-life balance are addressed in the chapter, “How Organizations Help and Hinder” in our book:

"Dot Calm: The Search for Sanity in a Wired World"

VirtualWorks! helps organizations address critical work-life issues that lead to enhanced productivity. We provide materials, training, and consulting services to support and enrich work-life initiatives and strategies. Specific services include:

Books & Booklets

Work-Life Balance Seminars

VirtualWorks! frequently delivers short seminars and workshops focusing on how individuals can deal with information, access, and work overload in their lives. The major thrust of these workshops is developing individual strategies for achieving greater work-life balance.

Focus and Alignment Seminars

Achieving alignment between individual goals and organizational objectives is critical to increased productivity, job satisfaction, and employee retention. This workshop focuses on clarifying the organization's objectives, goals and strategies; how individual employee goals match those objectives; and overcoming barriers to congruence and productivity.

Work-Life Congruence Coaching

For some individuals and situations, one-on-one coaching may be appropriate for gaining greater work-life balance. VirtualWorks! offers this coaching through a combination of diagnosis, skill development, and action plans for change.

 

E-Communication Culture Analysis

In many organizations, the volume of electronic communication and proliferation of technology tools is excessively time consuming and overwhelming. Many of the efficiencies promised by these tools are overshadowed by their seemingly negative impact on productivity. The E-Communication Culture Analysis studies organizational systems, policies, and practices to develop appropriate interventions for achieving increased focus and productivity.

 

Quality of Work Life Assessment

Through easy-to-use and quick turn- around surveys, VirtualWorks! can help organizations diagnose those work life issues that may be interfering with morale, retention and profitability.

 

For additional information about any of these services, Contact us to discuss your needs and how we can help you.