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Case Study:
Nonprofit Association
Work/Home Imbalance:
The enormous professional and personal suffering that results from ignoring human needs and wants in the workplace. A potentially explosive mixture when work life and home life compete for attention.
The Challenges:
- Turning two potentially conflicting priorities into complimentary supportive partners.
- Reducing the high cost of lost production due to personal and family issues and stresses.
The leadership of this nonprofit association was beginning to burn out. Working into the evenings and weekends to try to grow their services and reach more needy people meant this executive's family was being neglected. He needed some guidelines in balancing these priorities, and skills in delegating some of the workload. As is always the case, the problem was not a shortage of time, but a management of time. The executive saw that in order to utilize this challenge as an opportunity, he was going to have to make some decisions that were outside of his comfort zone.
"With the leadership tools we learned in the Pathways
to Leadership® training, our work team began to provide
an even higher level of community outreach, but we were still
able to maintain a work/home balance using the Homeward Bound
framework. Our dream of becoming Colorado's finest non-profit
organization seems to be on track. Recently, we were proud to
be recognized on the floor of our state legislature for the
treatment we provide to low-income families in our communities."
Executive Director, Dental Association
Tools and Concepts
Note: The following steps represent only a few of the key concepts and tools
applied in this case study. 
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