Living a Balanced Life Training from CBT Direct

Living a Balanced Life Curriculum Outline

Finding Your Life Balance

Overview/Description
You fill your life with many activities and it difficult to get the balance between those activities right. But getting the balance right gives a tremendous payback. You feel fulfilled. You are in harmony with yourself and your world. Which is good for you, and also impacts positively on your family, friends, and co-workers. The first step towards a possible adjustment of your life balance is to assess your life as it is now. This course will enable you to assess your present life, both at home and at work, and the relationship between the two. Is it balanced? How and why is it out of balance? You will learn what the obstacles to achieving a balanced life are, and how to apply a basic strategy to overcome these obstacles. Finally, you will learn about the role of the individual in relation to the organization he works in, and how this impacts on his life. Are you working for an organizational culture which fits you? Are you in balance with your job? Do you have the right kinds of working relationships? Only through properly understanding where you are, in relation to where you want to be, can you begin to construct a map that will take you to your objective of a balanced, fulfilled life.

Target Audience
Anyone in business who wants a balanced life in order to increase his or her satisfaction, energy and productivity

Expected Duration
4.5 hours

Lesson Objectives:

Assessing Your Current Situation

Identify the benefits of assessing current life balance.

Use life chart categories to determine an individuals satisfaction with his current situation.

Take appropriate actions to make the most of energy in a given scenario.

Match value drivers with individuals in a given scenario.

What is Getting in the Way?

Identify the benefits of learning how to overcoming obstacles to life balance.

Make recommendations about how an individual could act to effectively achieve life balance.

Distinguish between examples of internal and external obstacles to change.

Apply the strategies required to overcome obstacles to changing life balance, acting appropriately in relation to both internal and external barriers, in a given scenario.

Individual and Organizational Fit

Recognize the benefits of assessing the individual and organizational fit.

Match examples of comments about organizational culture with the cultural types exhibited.

Determine the job preferences of individuals in specified examples.

Match individuals to their dominant work relationship preferences.

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Success over Stress

Overview/Description
Stress is the psychological, physiological and behavioral response by an individual when they perceive a lack of equilibrium between the demands placed upon them and their ability to meet those demands, which, over a period of time, leads to ill-health. Stephen Palmer, Occupational Stress. Contrary to popular belief, stress itself is never a good thing--it is always harmful. This course will show you the difference between pressure, which spurs you into action and helps you to perform at your peak, and stress, which impedes your performance, and has long-term health implications. Stress is produced by your own feelings and reactions to certain external events, rather than by the events themselves. This means that once you recognize how you respond to certain situations, you can change your response to one that is more helpful and productive.

Target Audience
Anyone who wants a balanced life in order to increase his or her satisfaction, energy, and productivity

Expected Duration
4.5 hours

Lesson Objectives:

Recognizing Stress

Identify the benefits of recognizing stress.

Identify appropriate descriptions of stress.

Categorize the signs and symptoms of stress into physiological, behavioral, and psychological.

Identify Type A and Type B personality types from examples provided.

Distinguish between examples of job stressors.

Coping with Stress

Recognize the benefits of having a range of positive strategies to cope with stress.

Apply techniques to prepare for stress in a given scenario.

Distinguish between examples of negative thinking.

Match the techniques for challenging negative thinking with examples.

Use techniques to challenge negative thinking in a given situation.

Use the appropriate techniques to receive criticism positively in a given scenario.

Distinguish between examples of the elements of the ABC model.

Distinguish between relaxation techniques that can be used on a daily basis.

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Strategies for Better Balance

Overview/Description
Its not the hours you put in your work that counts, its the work you put in the hours.--Sam Ewing. This course focuses on the actions you can take to achieve a more balanced life. It begins by helping you to explore ways in which you can create some space in order to bring more nourishing and energizing activities into your life. The course will show you how to build practical systems into your days and weeks that will support you in making the necessary adjustments to your life. As life balance constantly shifts, you will also consider early warning signs to look out for, so that you can make the necessary adjustments as you go along. Finally, this last course in the series will enable you to create a vision of a satisfying, balanced life for yourself.

Target Audience
Anyone who wants a balanced life in order to increase his or her satisfaction, energy and productivity.

Expected Duration
5.0 hours

Lesson Objectives:

Reducing Demands

Identify the benefits of knowing how to reduce demands on time.

Match passive, aggressive, and assertive responses to the behaviors associated with each.

Use assertiveness techniques to define boundaries in a given scenario.

Determine to what extent a delegation strategy is used effectively in a scenario.

Making Changes

Identify the benefits of having the right tools and strategies to make appropriate life balancing changes.

Apply the strategy required to create and pursue a vision.

Apply the PMI technique to evaluate a possible change.

Take the actions necessary to develop supportive relationships, in a scenario.

Recognize examples of the actions associated with making space and making time.

Fitting in with the Big Picture

Identify the benefits of being able to see the big picture when taking action to put life in balance.

Match the four phases of a life change cycle to the characteristic feelings and appropriate actions associated with them.

Match the two elements of the reframing process to examples of the considerations required to explore each element.

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Living a Balanced Life Simulation

Overview/Description
Youre a customer relations representative for Wise Owl Airlines, an up-and-coming discount airline that has been around for three years. Your job is to deal with post-event customer complaints. This work is quite stressful. While you handle some complaints through written correspondence, you spend most of your time on the phone with angry customers. Dealing with them is often hard, as many often want greater restitution than youre authorized to give them. Also, your boss has very high standards and expects you to solve all issues to the customers satisfaction using a minimal amount of the companys resources. Your challenge will be to deal with your stress effectively and find your life balance. This simulation is based on the SkillSoft series Living a Balanced Life and contains links to the following courses: PD0181, PD0182, and PD0183.

Target Audience
Anyone in business who wants a balanced life in order to increase his or her satisfaction, energy and productivity.

Expected Duration
0.5 hours

Lesson Objectives:

Living a Balanced Life Simulation

Overcoming obstacles to change.

Anticipating and preparing for stress.

Dealing with criticism.

Defining your boundaries assertively.

Developing supportive relationships.

Taking time to relax.

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Living a Balanced Life

It’s a demanding world we live in and it’s easy to get stressed out, but by doing some introspective searching and practical goal setting, we empower ourselves by finding balance and flow.

Balancing your life between work and home has become one of the most difficult goals to achieve today and will take a toll on your health if not managed properly. Cell phones, PDAs, email, demanding work hours and additional job duties all keep our minds on work, while relationships, kids, bills and other responsibilities keep us occupied with our personal lives at home.

Have you ever wished you could pick up a hobby or do something you really enjoy but could never find the time to do it? We’ll help you find ways to create some “extra” time in your busy lifestyle in order to relieve stress and bring more nourishing and energizing activities into your life.

CBT Direct has a vital lesson about how to successfully balance out your life and reach success over stress. Find that perfect balance in your life and the lesson will be invaluable.

Living a Balanced Life