Once upon a time, we used to talk about work-life balance. It was a term that implied we had two sides to our lives – personal and professional. The goal was to help ensure that each side occupied roughly the same amount of our time.
Work-life balance is a lie. It’s patently untrue. Why? We have only one life. There are no “sides” – it’s all a single thing.
Instead, of that misnomer, we need to start thinking in terms of work-life synergy. While we do have only a single life, if there is no synergy between what we do professionally and what we personally believe and strive for, our life as a whole will be lacking. Managers can use learning and development to improve work-life synergy for their teams, but you’ll need to know a few things going in here.
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