What is the Difference Between Thriving and Work Life Balance?

There is a growing focus by business on Workers Thriving which is a progression of trying to satisfy the Work Life Balance conundrum. Business is faced with so many personnel issues including cutting to increase profits, holding onto valuable workers, and reducing burn out.

The issues also stem from the chaos workers feel in dealing with career goals, cost of living inflation, rapidly advancing AI job replacing technologies, stress of work over load, lack of time spent with families, lack of time for personal pursuits.

How Many Issues Can Organizations Address?

How many of the business issues and worker personal goals can a business address at one time? Are businesses communicating with workers about their goals and issues or just trying to balance budgets and production demands? It takes an enlightened enterprise to measure worker satisfaction with their career and personal lives and then to try and support both.

Can a business be successful in achieving its mission if it only demands productivity and leaves workers to solve their personal goals and issues? What businesses find is that workers too often solve their goals by leaving for another organization. Too many workers surveyed are looking for other opportunities.

The worker wants time to pursue his personal goals of raising a family and enjoying his interests whether they be exercise, travel, or hobbies. These pursuits require time. The worker also needs greater income to match inflation and provide opportunities for his family. The worker needs job satisfaction in feeling he is contributing and has a purpose at work and for being here in his life.

Giving Workers Greater Clarity and Control

One way for organizations and workers to gain clarity about their common interests is for the worker to feel in command of his own life. He needs to take initiative in his personal growth and understanding how he can feel purposeful. He should understand how he can be responsible for his own career growth and seek support from his organization. Working together, both sides can achieve their mutual goals.

I have a series of short books guiding the worker to build and sustain his goals of growth and life satisfaction. The books Self-Leadership, Gratitude, Happiness, and Start Now are great “how to” guides on how individuals create their path, find satisfaction in their lives, and build greater health and well being.

The material can also be presented through lectures, coaching, retreats, and webinars. Guiding workers to support an organization by first guiding them on creating their own well being can be both a short cut and a solid plan to solving productivity goals for organizations.