ONLINE: Leaders and Work-Life Balance

Upon successful completion of this course participants will be able to:

• Identify the major sources of work-life balance conflict
• Discuss some of the better-known leadership theories (Fiedler's contingency theory; Path-goal theory; Vroom-Yetton-Jago theory)
• Identify strategies to achieve balance, including balancing by week, over a year, and via a short career
• Recognize ways to maintain work-life balance
• Examine what defines personal fulfillment
• Identify those significant elements that play a role in a leader's life
• Identify nine ways of viewing life's choices
• Develop and complete a Personal Work-Life Balance Plan

This offering is targeted to individuals who meet or exceed the following professional demographics:  

• Entry-level public procurement and central warehouse professionals who serve as assistants, coordinators, buyers, or equivalent functions within their respective entities.   

• Non-procurement managers and supervisors who are responsible for either the procurement function or staff who provide procurement functions under delegated authority.   

• Professionals who are employed by governing entities and special authorities (such as K-12 and higher education, publicly-owned utilities, transportation providers, and other publicly-funded or created organizations) that either serve within or manage the procurement function.  

• Suppliers or representatives of suppliers seeking to understand the public procurement function from a holistic level, including the policies, standards, and procedures by which public entities must function.