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October is National Work and Family Month
Did you know that October is National Work and Family Month? Listed below are some ways to celebrate. If your organization needs assistance organizing
one of these events, do not hesitate to call us here at Frank Horton Associates.
Some ideas to celebrate National Work and Family Month:
- Create a gallery of pictures – of employees’ families and lives outside of work.
- Send out weekly email tips – with quick ideas, resources,
and reminders about available benefits.
- Make the link – Open enrollment, health fairs, or manager training already scheduled for October? Include
an information sheet showcasing available work and family benefits, and/or articles on work/life-related topics.
- Prepare an article – on work and family for your organization’s
newsletter or intranet. Focus on a key message, such as informing fathers of their eligibility for FMLA.
- Make something happen! – Reinforce to
managers how and why they should make an effort to be flexible.
- Schedule a seminar – Have you been meaning to try out an employee brown bag session on a topic like “Setting Boundaries with Children”?
Schedule it for sometime in October – it might just lead to future gatherings on other work/life topics of interest.
- “Get a life” – Encourage
employees to explore interests outside of work. Think creatively about how you might cultivate those interests via your workplace.
- Make a splash – Use this opportunity to promote something you’ve
recently developed, such as a revised HR website that contains work/life resource information.
- Write a new work/life policy – have it reviewed
during October.
- Solicit testimonials – of what work/life programs have meant to people in your company. Summarize and display with pictures
of people.
- Look for the tie-in – to work/life when communicating about other events in October (e.g., National Depression Screening Day).
- Kick-off a pilot – Take a work/life project you’ve
had in the works and try to kick off the pilot in October.
- Organize focus groups – Reserve time during October to meet with different groups of
employees to hear what work/life means for them. Get a pulse of the issues of greatest importance.
- Pick one thing you can accomplish – Use this
occasion to identify one proactive goal in the work/life area for the coming year.
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