Title: Develop strategies to manage and balance work and family roles.
Course: Life Planning (19257-18) > Section: Developing Career, Community, and Life Connections

Development should include

- a time-management plan
- prioritization of family and work responsibilities
- stress-management strategies
- health and safety issues
- conflict resolution
- family and work values
- stages of the family and career life cycle.

Process/Skill Questions:

Thinking

- What is the relationship between the family’s circumstances and work productivity?
- Why is it important to a person, to the family, and to the employer to balance work and family roles?
- What factors should be considered when developing management strategies related to family? To the workplace?
- What responsibility does an employer have for an employee's well-being at home?
- When is it appropriate for an employer to intervene in an employee’s personal/family life?
- What is the relationship of community activities and responsibilities to work and family roles?
- How do management strategies for balancing work and family roles change as the family progresses through the life cycle?

Communication

- When is it appropriate for an employee to communicate personal/family problems to an employer?
- When is it appropriate for and employee to use available employer resources for communicating family issues?
- What communication skills are needed to develop strategies for balancing work and family roles?
- How can the importance of balancing work and family roles be communicated to others?

Leadership

- What leadership skills can be used to address and resolve conflict regarding work and family roles?
- What skills do family members need to become leaders?
- What criteria should be used to assess the efforts of balancing work and family roles?

Management

- What management strategies are needed to set priorities at work? At home?
- What kind of training is needed to develop management strategies for balancing work and family roles?
- What management skills are needed to deal with issues at different stages of the family life cycle?