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April 8, 2008

Working Women: Performing the Balancing Act – Flexing Your Work Schedule Part 3

Let’s continue our look at how working moms can flex their work schedules with some more of my top tips for selling your boss on a more flexible work schedule.

Tip #2 – Flex your schedule in stages

So, your boss has agreed to the idea of you working a more flexible schedule? Great! But….before you jump right in to your new office hours, it’s really important for you to ease your way into a flexing your schedule step by step.

If your goal is to leave the office early 3 days a week, try easing into your new schedule by leaving early just 1 day a week for a few weeks, and gradually work up to your desired flexible schedule.

By easing into flexing your schedule, working moms will accomplish 2 things:

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I’ve shared with you my time management tips 1-3 for work at home moms. Now let’s take a look at tips 4 – 6.

Tip #4

Have a “safety net” built into your schedule.

Remember when you were back in college and you’d put off studying for that final exam or writing that term paper until the night before it was due. Back then, all you needed was a pot of coffee and a lot of midnight oil to burn.

But times have changed!

Now that you’re a work at home mom, you definitely have more on your plate than you did back during your college days. And, let’s face it; staying up all night to get needed work done when you have an impending deadline just isn’t practical.

That’s why it’s important to build a safety net into your schedule. If your client is expecting his report from you by Friday at 10am, why not make yourself get it done by Wednesday evening? By building a safety net into your schedule, you are able to better balance your work and family lives, particularly when you’re thrown a curve ball – like a sick child or a snow day.

Tip #5

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Let’s wrap up our look this week at time management tips for work at home moms with tips 7-10.

Tip #7

Plan ahead for holidays and summer vacations.

Keep in mind when you’ll probably need to change your work schedule or even lighten your workload a bit around your kids’ school holidays and summer life.

As a work at home mom, it’s important that you add these dates to your calendar and begin planning around them far in advance so you don’t end up in crisis mode a week before school lets out for summer vacation.

Tip #8

Take advantage of little windows of opportunity.

Got 20 minutes before you have to leave for soccer practice? Is your toddler sleeping a few minutes longer than normal during naptime? Balance work and home life by taking advantage of the time to answer a couple of short e-mails or return a phone call or two. Maybe you can even take this time for yourself to have a coffee, meditate or take a deep breath. You’d be amazed at the simple things work at home moms have learned to get done in these little windows of time.

Tip #9

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