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Work-life Balance Training 1 day

Everyone needs a sustainable work-life balance. Many people feel they are not achieving this because they have too many competing demands on their time. Achieving a work-life balance will improve your mood and your level of success. Learn how to prioritise and delegate tasks, as well as stress management techniques, creating harmony and happiness.

Available as bespoke in-house training tailored to your organisation.

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"The course content was clear, concise and retained my interest throughout. I have been on numerous courses of similar nature, but this is one of the best. The trainer's presentation was engaging and focused. Good energy!" - Lee Middleton, RDB Concepts Ltd
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Established 1997
6 CPD Hours
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Course Overview

What is Work-life Balance Training?

We open by defining work-life balance precisely: the successful harmonisation of all the competing demands and obligations placed on a person's limited time and energy. Delegates analyse their own lives, breaking each one down into its component parts (career, family, health, hobbies, friends, sleep, entertainment and education) and assigning a relative value to each. When you understand your own hierarchy of values, we show you how to translate those priorities into a coherent and realistic daily plan.

Unlike personal development training, which covers goal-setting, communication and conflict management broadly, this course goes deep on one specific challenge: how to sustain a fulfilling, productive life over the long term without burning out.

The afternoon addresses stress from two angles. Physically, we look at the role of recuperation, sleep, nutrition and energy management in sustaining high performance over a career that spans decades. Mentally, we introduce the concept of watertight compartments: a practical technique for preventing anxieties in one area of life from flooding into all the others, allowing you to give your full attention to whatever you are doing right now. Delegates who want to explore the emotional regulation dimension further may find our emotional intelligence and resilience follow-on a natural complement.

We close with a personal action plan, specific, written and immediately usable, so that every delegate leaves knowing exactly what they will change first and how they will measure progress. Work-life balance is not a destination you reach once; it is an art that must be re-affirmed and practised as your circumstances change. This course gives you the framework to do that for life.

Core Skills

The Key Skills Covered

This course is built around the principle that a good life requires deliberate design. These six areas of focus give delegates a complete and practical framework for achieving lasting work-life balance.

  1. 1

    Understanding Work-life Balance

    Define precisely what work-life balance means, why it matters professionally and personally, and why so many people struggle to achieve it despite genuinely wanting it. A clear definition is the essential first step, because it replaces vague dissatisfaction with a concrete, solvable problem.

  2. 2

    Life Analysis and Personal Values

    Break your life into its component parts: career, family, health, hobbies, friendships, sleep, education and more. Assign a relative value to each, revealing your personal hierarchy of priorities. This honest self-analysis is the foundation on which all subsequent planning rests.

  3. 3

    Prioritisation and Planning

    Translate your values into a practical daily and weekly schedule. Learn to identify the most valuable use of your time at any given moment, avoid the three major time wasters (self, others and systems), and impose a rational order on competing demands so that nothing essential is neglected for long.

  4. 4

    Physical Stress Management

    Understand the physical component of stress and the role of recuperation, sleep, nutrition and energy management in sustaining long-term high performance. Professional work must be maintained over many years; the physical habits you build now determine whether that is possible.

  5. 5

    Mental Stress Management

    Create watertight compartments in your mind: a practical method for preventing pressures in one area of life from flooding into all the others. Maintain your poise when circumstances change, protect your peace of mind, and give your full attention to whatever you are doing right now.

  6. 6

    Personal Action Planning

    Write a clear, specific and realistic plan for how you will implement the content of this course in your own life, starting immediately. Work-life balance is an art that must be consciously re-affirmed as the seasons of life change; your action plan gives you a framework for doing exactly that.

Who Is This Course For?

Who Should Attend This Work-life Balance Training Course?

Designed for anyone who feels the competing demands of work, family and personal life are becoming difficult to manage sustainably.

Professionals Feeling Overworked

Reclaim evenings, weekends and mental space without compromising professional standards.

Managers and Team Leaders

Balance strategic responsibilities with personal wellbeing and set a sustainable example for your team.

Individuals Under Sustained Pressure

Build personal defences that prevent work pressures from eroding health, relationships and happiness.

Anyone at Risk of Burnout

Learn to manage your energy as carefully as your time and break the cycle of exhaustion before it takes hold.

Also valuable for managers and team leaders who want to model sustainable working practices for their teams, HR and wellbeing leads supporting employee mental health initiatives, and individuals at a life transition (a new role, a growing family, or a career change) who want to redesign how they spend their time.

Course Agenda

Work-life Balance Training Course Details

AM

Morning Session • Life analysis, values and prioritisation

Define what work-life balance really means, analyse your life into its component parts, discover your personal hierarchy of values, and learn to translate those priorities into a practical daily plan.

We open with a precise working definition: work-life balance is the successful harmonisation of all the competing demands and obligations placed on a person's limited time and energy. This is not about working less; it is about ensuring that professional work, which must be sustained over many years, is held in proportion to all the other elements that make life worth living. We examine why the phrase is so widely used yet so rarely achieved, and why the solution is practical and learnable rather than a matter of luck or circumstance.
No life is made up of work alone. Every person's life is a composite of elements: career, family, friendships, health, hobbies, sleep, personal development, entertainment, spiritual practice and more. The first step towards balance is to see your life clearly as a whole, not just the portion currently demanding most of your attention. We guide delegates through a structured exercise to identify all the significant component parts of their own life, many of which have been overlooked or neglected without being consciously acknowledged.
Every component of life has value, and every one of them makes a claim on your limited supply of time and energy. The difficulty is that these claims are rarely proportional to the value you assign to each component. Work, with its visible deadlines and immediate consequences, tends to crowd out other areas that matter equally but produce no immediate penalty for neglect, at least until the long-term damage becomes too significant to ignore. We examine this dynamic and show why deliberate, conscious prioritisation is the only reliable way to counteract it.
The four major skills are: (1) knowing your hierarchy of values, so that you have clear criteria for all prioritisation decisions; (2) prioritisation and planning, so that your schedule reflects what matters rather than what is simply loudest or most urgent; (3) physical stress management, so that your body can sustain the demands placed on it over time; and (4) mental stress management, so that anxieties from one life area do not contaminate your capacity to function well in the others. This course works through all four skills in sequence, giving you practical methods at each stage.
Prioritisation for work-life balance is different from workplace time management. Here, the criteria extend beyond deadline and business value to include personal values: what matters to you as a human being, not just as an employee or manager. We show how to apply a values-based prioritisation framework to your real schedule (not just your work diary) and how to make day-to-day decisions about how to spend your time in a way that is consistent with what you have decided is most important at this stage of your life.
At any given moment, a person has multiple legitimate claims on their time. The question is not which of them is urgent, but which of them is most valuable given your personal priorities. We introduce a simple but powerful decision-making question: 'What is the most valuable use of my time, right now?' Answering it consistently, across work and personal contexts, produces dramatically different day-to-day choices than simply responding to whatever demands are loudest.
Time is lost to three categories of waster. Self-generated wasters include procrastination, indecision, perfectionism and poor planning. People-generated wasters include unnecessary meetings, interruptions, conversations without clear outcomes and requests that could reasonably be redirected. Systems-generated wasters include unclear processes, duplicated effort and information that is difficult to find or retrieve. We diagnose which category causes you the greatest losses and give targeted strategies for each, applicable both at work and in personal life.
Competing demands do not organise themselves. Without a deliberate effort to impose order, the default pattern is to give attention to whatever is loudest, most uncomfortable or most immediately visible, regardless of its actual importance. We teach a structured approach to ordering your commitments: first by value, second by logical sequence. The result is not a perfect schedule in which everything is done; it is a rational sequence in which the most important things are done first, and less important things are addressed only when higher priorities are satisfied.
The tension between professional and family demands is among the most common sources of work-life imbalance. Each has legitimate and genuine claims on your time and energy; the challenge is that professional work tends to be more measurable, more immediately accountable and harder to defer, while family life suffers silently until the damage is visible. We examine this asymmetry directly and give delegates practical strategies for protecting personal and family time from the encroachment of work without compromising professional effectiveness.
We close the morning session by consolidating the insights from the life analysis exercise into a clear and actionable picture: a map of your major life elements, ranked in order of personal value, with a realistic assessment of how your current allocation of time and energy compares with that ranking. For most delegates, this comparison is revealing. The goal is not to induce guilt but to create the specific, factual clarity that makes purposeful change possible.
PM

Afternoon Session • Stress management, mental wellbeing and action planning

Address stress from both physical and mental perspectives, learn to create watertight compartments in your mind to maintain poise, and leave with a concrete personal action plan you can begin implementing immediately.

Stress is not a single phenomenon but a complex response that affects both body and mind. Physical stress manifests as fatigue, muscle tension, poor sleep, weakened immunity and reduced cognitive performance. Mental stress manifests as worry, rumination, difficulty concentrating, emotional volatility and the inability to switch off from problems in one area of life. Effective stress management must address both dimensions; treating only one produces limited and temporary results. The afternoon session is structured to give delegates practical strategies for each.
The mental and emotional effects of sustained stress include persistent low-level anxiety, irritability, difficulty making decisions, a tendency to catastrophise and a narrowing of attention that makes it hard to appreciate anything positive in life. We examine these effects in detail, explain the psychological mechanisms that produce them, and introduce specific, evidence-based techniques for interrupting the cycle. These include cognitive reframing, structured worry time, the use of rational self-questioning, and how to develop a more accurate and proportionate view of difficult situations.
A watertight compartment is a mental discipline for keeping concerns from one area of life from seeping into all the others. When you are at work, your full attention is on work; when you are with family, your full attention is on family; when you are resting, you are genuinely resting rather than mentally rehearsing tomorrow's problems. Creating this kind of compartmentalisation requires conscious practice rather than simply deciding to do it, and we give delegates a concrete method for developing it. The result is the ability to be fully present wherever you are: one of the most practical and powerful productivity and wellbeing skills available.
Without deliberate effort, difficulties in one area of life contaminate all the others. A stressful day at work follows you home, undermining your relationships and your sleep, which in turn reduces your effectiveness the following day. A difficult situation at home reduces your concentration and resilience at work. We examine the specific psychological mechanisms by which this flooding occurs and introduce practical interruption strategies (including pattern-breakers, transition rituals and purposeful attention control) that prevent a problem in one compartment from spreading damage throughout the whole.
Sustainable equilibrium is not a fixed state; it is a dynamic balance that must be consciously maintained and periodically recalibrated as circumstances change. Life is always changing: roles evolve, families grow, health fluctuates, careers develop. What produced good balance at one stage of life may produce imbalance at the next. We examine what sustainable equilibrium looks like in practice, how to recognise when it has been lost, and how to restore it without a dramatic overhaul; a series of modest, deliberate adjustments guided by the values analysis completed in the morning session.
Poise is the capacity to remain calm, clear-headed and purposeful under conditions that would otherwise produce a reactive or emotional response. It is not the suppression of emotion but the ability to maintain rational choice even while emotions are present. We examine what poise looks like in practice: as the manager who can close a laptop at 6pm without guilt, or the professional who can be fully present with family despite a demanding workload. We give delegates practical techniques for developing it as a reliable personal habit rather than an occasional fortunate state.
The course closes with a structured personal action planning session. Each delegate identifies the specific changes they will make (covering how they spend their time, how they manage their physical and mental energy, and how they prioritise competing demands) and commits to a date for each. Plans are written, specific and immediately actionable. Three months of free telephone coaching is available after the course to support delegates while they implement what they have learned. Work-life balance is a practice, not a destination, and the coaching provision ensures the process continues well beyond the training day itself.

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Delivery Options

Choose the delivery format that best fits your schedule and team.

All options deliver the same high-quality content.

Bespoke In-House

£2250+VAT

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We come to you. Training delivered at your premises, tailored to your team's specific needs.

  • Your premises or online
  • Tailored to your organisation
  • Dates to suit your schedule
  • We can train in your timezone
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All Our Training Includes

Full 1 day of expert training delivered by an experienced trainer
CPD-endorsed course: 6 CPD training hours (plus 2-3 additional hours via post-course online learning)
Full digital interactive course notes
Official training certificate
Access to free additional training material via our post-course portal
3 months of free telephone coaching while you implement your learning

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Frequently Asked Questions

Course FAQs

You can book directly online via our course dates page, call us on 020 3856 3037, or make an enquiry and we will call you back. We accept payment by BACS, cheque or credit card. Once booked, you will receive a confirmation email with full joining instructions.
Yes. We can deliver this course exclusively for your team at your premises or online, on dates to suit you. Bespoke in-house training is priced per day rather than per delegate, making it cost-effective for groups of four or more. We can also tailor the content to address your organisation's specific challenges.
The most common signs of an unhealthy work-life balance include: persistent fatigue that does not improve with adequate sleep; increasing irritability or emotional volatility, particularly towards family or close colleagues; neglecting health routines such as regular exercise, balanced meals or sufficient sleep; difficulty switching off from work during personal time; declining quality in either professional output or personal relationships as one set of demands crowds out the other; and a persistent sense that life has been reduced to a single dimension, usually work, while everything else waits indefinitely. If several of these are familiar, this course will help you identify what has fallen out of alignment and give you practical tools to correct it.
The five core steps to achieving work-life balance are:
  1. Analyse your life into its component parts: career, family, health, hobbies, friendships, sleep, personal development and more, giving you an honest picture of the whole
  2. Assign a relative value to each component, identifying what matters most at this particular stage of your life
  3. Assess how much time and energy you are currently giving to each area and compare that honestly with your stated values
  4. Prioritise and plan: translate your values into a realistic schedule that reflects what is genuinely most important, not just what is most immediately demanding
  5. Manage stress actively, both physically and mentally, so that the pressures of one area do not erode your capacity to function well in the others
This course works through all five steps in sequence, giving you practical tools at each stage.
Yes, the training is highly interactive. Sessions include group discussions, exercises, case studies and individual action planning. The trainer actively teaches expert content rather than simply facilitating discussion, so delegates leave with structured knowledge they can apply immediately. The style is engaging and practical throughout.
Work-life balance is affected by both external and internal factors. External factors include employer culture and the normalisation of long hours, commuting demands, caring responsibilities, financial pressures and the inherent nature of certain roles. Internal factors include your personal hierarchy of values (how you have consciously or unconsciously prioritised the different elements of your life), self-imposed performance standards, your ability to manage your time and energy effectively, and your capacity to maintain firm and reasonable boundaries. This course focuses primarily on the internal factors, since these are within your direct control regardless of your current external circumstances.
Delegates come from a wide range of industries, roles and life situations. Some attend because work has gradually expanded to consume their evenings, weekends and mental space; others attend because a new caring responsibility, a growing family or a significant career change has disrupted a balance that previously felt manageable. Many attend because they recognise that the current pattern is not sustainable and want a practical, rational framework for redesigning how they spend their time. Delegates consistently find the course relevant regardless of their specific circumstances, because the framework (life analysis, values, prioritisation and stress management) applies universally rather than to any particular profession or situation.
Open courses run from 9:00 am to 4:30 pm. Delegates are welcome to arrive from 8:45 am; tea and coffee are available from that time. The course includes mid-morning and mid-afternoon breaks plus a lunch break.

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  1. 1 Course Overview
  2. 2 Key Skills
  3. 3 Who Should Attend
  4. 4 Course Agenda
  5. 5 Delivery Options
  6. 6 FAQs

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★★★★★

"Every single element of this course was incredibly beneficial! A lot of information and tools I have been looking to harness for years, all put in one session, GREAT! Very interactive too and broken up. Amazing and Engaging presentation. Really important and helpful when challenging peoples mind sets. Something I try to do as a manager but have failed! Good for everyone to hear those thoughts from someone externally."

Katy Le Lion

University College London

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"Most beneficial elements of the course were; time management skills - delegating, avoiding distractions; positivity - be positive, spread it and you will get results! Q1-Q4 - will be thinking about this daily! The trainer’s presentation was EXCELLENT! Engaged all day. Best training in a very long time."

Claire Saunders

University College London

★★★★★

"The course content contained a number of key tools that I can use with my direct reports and in relation to my own performance. Able to use immediately. The course brought out a number of areas, previously learned, back to the surface. The trainer's presentation was clear, direct and great pace. Managed all delegates expectations well. Positive environment for learning. "

Dave Jackson

International Greetings UK Ltd

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