Title: Identify management strategies for balancing work and family roles.
Course: Career, Community, and Family Connections (19299-18) > Section: Balancing Work and Family

Identification should involve

- use of time
- prioritization of family and work responsibilities
- ways to handle stress
- health and safety issues
- conflict resolution
- family and work values
- stages of the family and career life cycle.

Process/Skill Questions:

Thinking

- How might one’s priorities affect how time is used at home? At work?
- Where might one look for resources/strategies to handle stress at home and at work?

Communication

- What should families/employers do to facilitate consensus building to solve problems?
- What strategies could be used to resolve conflicts at home? At work?

Leadership

- Where might one look to find support for balancing work and family roles?
- Why might existing beliefs, actions, or conditions create limits for achieving good leadership in the family or workplace?

Management

- What are the consequences of poorly managing work and family roles?
- When might it be a good idea to use outside help to resolve a conflict?