Course Overview
This online work-life balance course for women is a partner course that helps learners take a more realistic, thoughtful approach to managing professional and personal priorities. It explores the pressures, expectations, and tradeoffs that often shape work-life balance and gives participants practical strategies for setting priorities, managing stress, and avoiding burnout.
This is a partner course offered alongside our instructor-led programs. It provides a self-paced option for professionals who want a structured review of work-life balance strategies without waiting for a workshop date.
The course covers sources of work-life balance conflict, common myths about balance, personal priorities and goals, gender-related double standards, the power of saying no, stress management strategies, ways to think about balance across different timeframes, and the role organizations can play in supporting employees.
Who This Helps
This course is a strong fit for women professionals who want a clearer, more realistic approach to balancing work and personal priorities. It also supports employees who are managing stress, questioning unhelpful assumptions about balance, or trying to make better decisions about commitments, boundaries, and long-term sustainability.
What Learners Will Do Better
- Recognize the primary causes of work-life balance challenges.
- Identify and challenge common myths about work-life balance.
- Define personal work-life priorities and set more meaningful goals.
- Understand gender-related double standards that can shape expectations and choices.
- Apply strategies to manage stress and reduce burnout risk.
- Think about balance across weekly, yearly, and career-long timeframes.
- Make better use of organizational support that can strengthen work-life balance.
How Teams Get Value From It
Teams use this course to build shared awareness around stress, boundaries, burnout prevention, and the workplace conditions that affect balance. Common uses include assigning it as part of professional development for women, pairing it with broader well-being efforts, and using it to prompt better conversations about expectations, support, and sustainable performance.
Time, Access, and Credits
Estimated learning time is approximately 3 hours. Access runs 90 days. The course carries 0.3 IACET CEUs and 3 credits each from HRCI, SHRM, and ATD. It also includes 3 PMI PDUs, broken out as 0.75 Ways of Working, 0.75 Power Skills, and 1.5 Business Acumen.
Volume Pricing and Coordinated Enrollment
If purchasing seats for a group, contact us about volume pricing and coordinated enrollment.