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Work-Life Balance Stop Letting Time Manage You…. Mary M. Gullatte, PhD(c), RN, APRN, BC,AOCN Chief Nursing Officer Emory Crawford Long Hospital and Ambulatory Treatment Center, Winship Cancer Institute Atlanta, GA. S/S complex…Where R-U?. Making excuses for things that are left undone
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Work-Life Balance Stop Letting Time Manage You… Mary M. Gullatte, PhD(c), RN, APRN, BC,AOCN Chief Nursing Officer Emory Crawford Long Hospital and Ambulatory Treatment Center, Winship Cancer Institute Atlanta, GA
S/S complex…Where R-U? • Making excuses for things that are left undone • Irritable • Can’t say NO to anyone or anything • Super women or man complex • Envious of others who leave work “early” • Guilt • Low self-esteem, feeling blue • Binge sleeping • Over eating “junk foods” at your desk (C) M. Gullatte, RN, August 2007
Work-Life Balance and Effectiveness Objectives…at the end of this web cast the participant will be able to… • Compute individual hours of time spent in activities per week. • Learn strategies to improve time efficiency. • Manage multiple priorities in your life. • Develop a plan to create more value and balance in your day. • Identify ways to deal with distractions & interruptions. (C) M. Gullatte, RN, August 2007
Goals of Time Management • More Time for … • Family • Work place goals • Personal and professional goals • Play (C) M. Gullatte, RN, August 2007
Goals of Time Management • More Time for … • Fun • Friends • Self, what have you done for U lately? (C) M. Gullatte, RN, August 2007
Work-Life Balance and Effectiveness • Time Flies When You Are… • I Spend Most of My Time At… • All Work and No Play… (C) M. Gullatte, RN, August 2007
How Much Time Do You Have? 24 = 7 (C) M. Gullatte, RN, August 2007
Personal Time Management Tool How Do You Spend Your Time? • How Many Hours a Day Do You… • Watch TV • Study • Spend on Computer • Spend with Family • Spend with Friends (C) M. Gullatte, RN, August 2007
Personal Time Management Tool How Do You Spend Your Time? • How Many Hours a Day Do You… • Sleep • Work at a Job • Commute to and From Work • Talk on the Phone • Personal Time (just for you) (C) M. Gullatte, RN, August 2007
How Do You Spend Your Time? Calculate normal 5 or 7 day week • Take the activity • Estimate the total time in hours spent in that activity • Frequency (number of times a week, i.e., 5 or 7) • Sum for weekly total for each activity • Sum Total Hours (C) M. Gullatte, RN, August 2007
How do You Organize Your Time?Improving Time Efficiency • To Do List…paper & pencil or technology • Planner (paper or electronic) • What Value does a planner add? • Ends procrastination • Reduces stress • Adds value • Provides balance (C) M. Gullatte, RN, August 2007
Work / Life Balance • Develop SMART Goals S pecific M easurable Achievable Relevant T ime bound (C) M. Gullatte, RN, August 2007
Managing Multiple Priorities • Setting priorities using importance, validity, and urgency as a measures • Sorting through competing priorities based on validity and urgency • Distinguishing between validity and urgency • Define your limitations and learn to how to say “later” vs “no” (C) M. Gullatte, RN, August 2007
Create Balance • Establish Boundaries • Prioritize (UIV) • Choose/select your activities • Honor your own time • E-mail purgatory • ABC method • A= most important (needed today) • B= next most important (due in a week) • C= least important (due in a month) (C) M. Gullatte, RN, August 2007
Saying Yes but you really mean NO… How do you not say yes to a great opportunity ---knowing it will stress you out re time… • Do you say NO and feel guilty • Do you say No and not feel guilty • Do you just say Yes and work it in…business as usual…. • Or do you say, “ cannot do it now, but can later” and pace yourself. (C) M. Gullatte, RN, August 2007
YOU Control YOUR TIME… • What strategies are you taking away from this session? • What will you try? • What will be your test of change to take control of YOUR time? • What will be your measure of success? (C) M. Gullatte, RN, August 2007
Time is Running Out! • Your Questions and Your thoughts… (C) M. Gullatte, RN, August 2007
Selected References Gullatte, M. (2005). Nursing Management: Principles and Practice. ONS Publishing, Pittsburgh. Sandberg, J. Through time consuming, to do lists are a way of life. The Wall Street Journal, 2004, 09,10. http://www.careerjournal.com/columnist/cubicleculture/20040910-cubical.html Covey, S. (1994). First things first. Morgenstern, J. (2004). Time management from the inside out: The fool-proof system for taking control of your schedule-and your life. 2nd.ed.NewYork: Henry Holt/owl books. (C) M. Gullatte, RN, August 2007