Get a Life!
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Get a Life!
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Be happy and rested, fulfilled and successful, and stop work from taking over your life with this practical and handy guide to creating a work-life balance that works for you.
Is work taking over your life? Is your life interfering with your success at work?
Work-life balance is ever-evolving and can be hard to find and maintain, especially as your career develops and circumstances change. Get A Life! is a highly practical handbook to help you do just that.
Written by experienced coach, counsellor and wellbeing consultant Rick Hughes, this book covers everything from assessing your own needs, delegation and workload management and the myths of perfectionism, to managing and investing in relationships at work and at home, considering professional and personal development, and creativity and self-worth. With a wealth of advice, case studies and useful action plans founded in over 25 years of real-world experience, Get A Life! will help you find the balance that works for you, now.
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Get A Life! is praised for its insightful, relatable approach to work-life harmony. David Roomes of Rolls-Royce highlights Hughes's deep understanding of what fosters fulfilling lives through relationships and communication, complementing the book with practical case studies. Dr Judith Grant from the MACE group endorses it as a valuable resource for workplace wellbeing, offering tools and ideas to handle work pressures effectively both individually and organisationally.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781789662009
Publisher: Kogan Page Ltd
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 03 March 2020
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Kogan Page Ltd
Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 13.0mm
Width: 140.0mm
Height: 215.0mm
Weight: 290g
Pages: 232
About the Author
Rick Hughes (MBACP, MPhil, DipC, DipM) is the former Head of Service for the University of Aberdeen Counselling Service and former Lead Advisor: Workplace for the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. He has been a Wellbeing Consultant, Workplace Counsellor, Coach, Employee Support trouble-shooter and writer for over 25 years, providing support, counsel or guidance for thousands of individuals, and worked with clients such as the Royal Mail Group, Department for Transport, West Midlands Police, NHS Grampian and AstraZeneca.
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