Although having a young family is an incredibly rewarding experience, it can be difficult at times to juggle the responsibilities of family time alongside business.
So, if you’re struggling to balance playtime with presentations, here are just four ways you can balance running a business alongside running your household.
- Have Dedicated Working Hours
If you’re working from home, having dedicated working hours can be difficult, as it can be harder to switch off at a set time.
However, by marking your working hours on your Google calendar, and only scheduling appointments within those, you can also set out time to spend with your family easily, and avoid clashes with personal events.
- Have a Separate Office
Whether you work from home or from a different location, ensuring that you have a separate office for working purposes will help you to differentiate between time to focus on your family, and time to work on your career.
This can help to create a divide between your two worlds, and will mean that you can shut a door at the end of the working day. If you have a home office, you may want to invest in a desk and a good amount of storage space for paperwork. This will enable you to stay organised and productive during your working day.
You can find high quality desks and affordable desks from retailers like Ikea, who specialise in flat pack furniture for easy transportation and assembly.
- Use Recruitment Software
If you run a large business and need to engage in large-scale seasonal hiring, you can use recruitment software like Oleeo to organise your applicant data, schedule interviews and screen applications.
Recruitment software is well known for streamlining an otherwise paperwork-heavy hiring process due to its automation of communication tasks, and user-friendly interface. This means you can spend more time with family, and less time on recruitment, but achieve even more dazzling results.
- Create a Work From Home Routine During the Holidays
If you have school aged children who are home during the school holidays, it’s only natural that your work from home routine will inevitably change.
Ensure you can work somewhere that you can responsibly supervise the children, and take regular short breaks to check in with them, play a game, or prepare some food and drink.
If you can establish a routine, your children will be able to predict your working day easily, and will feel more at ease with you diverting your attention to your work.
Don’t forget to factor in time for naps for the younger children too! Keeping this part of their routine intact will help with behaviour, and give you some well-needed space to crack on with any more challenging tasks during the day.
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Running a business and managing a family can be a challenging balance to strike. Establish clear boundaries between work and family time, and try to stick to them as much as possible. This will help you to focus on your family when you’re with them and on your business when you’re working.Communicate with your family about your work schedule and responsibilities, and involve them in your business as much as possible. This will help them to understand the demands of running a business and will give you the support you need.
Balancing your family and your business is a challenging task that entrepreneurs face every day.