How can a participant address work/life balance in his/her After Diagram?
Although the exercise does not directly address this, participants can approach the exercise as a tool to help them manage their work/life balance in two different ways: • First, they can simply keep their work/life balance in mind throughout the exercise and use their After Diagram as a means to limit the tasks and amount of work that they’d like to include in their job (to avoid work spilling over into their family or leisure time). Also, if applicable, the exercise can help them prioritize which tasks they’re willing to do at home and which tasks they’re only willing to do at work. • The second option is including their family and leisure activities as ‘tasks’ in their After Diagram. This approach can help them see connections between their job and their life outside of work. And if they wish, they can use Role Frames to define boundaries between work and life or to integrate aspects of work and life into the same role.
