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About WorldatWork’s Alliance for Work-Life Progress®
WorldatWork’s Alliance for Work-Life Progress advances work-life as part of an integrated total rewards strategy. This alliance defines and acknowledges best practices and innovation, facilitates dialogue, and elevates work-life thought leadership. Each year, the alliance leads a national awareness initiative celebrating October as National Work and Family Month. Recognizing that work-life encompasses a wide array of programs, the WorldatWork Society of Certified Professionals established the Work-Life Certified Professional (WLCP®) designation in 2007.

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What's Your Work-Life Perspective?

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As the parent organization of AWLP, WorldatWork is a global association dedicated to advancement of strategies and practices to attract, motivate and retain an engaged and talented workforce. Its focus is on total rewards, which include five components:

1. Compensation
2. Benefits
3. Work-Life
4. Performance and Recognition
5. Development and Career Opportunities.

WorldatWork has more than 30,000 members and customers worldwide who share this passion for total rewards and/or components of it. This includes specialists in work-life, compensation and benefits, as well as HR generalists and others who have an interest in education and networking. Founded in 1955, WorldatWork supports thought leadership, education, publications, research and certification, including the new Work-Life Certified Professional designation.

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Work-Life Professionals on the Move
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WorldatWork Debuts Career Excellence Model
As part of our mission to best serve you, WorldatWork has created the Career Excellence Model for Total Rewards Professionals. This invaluable resource takes our eight key differentiators of top performers and organizes them into four actionable areas that can help maximize your success. Explore the model.

NEW! 2013 Digital Education Catalog. Order Your Classes Today. Bookmark class pages. Email pages/catalog to manager or colleagues. View with mobile app. Share pages/catalog through social networks. Click through directly to website to purchase.

Work-Life Rising Star
Check out EBN’s slideshow gallery highlighting winners of this year’s Work-Life Rising Star recognition award. Through this award, WorldatWork’s Alliance for Work-Life Progress honors work-life thought leadership, best practices and innovation.

WorldatWork Debuts Mobile Website
The critical work-life information you rely on from WorldatWork is now mobile-friendly! Visit our new mobile website at m.worldatwork.org for quick, convenient access to Newsline, the Career Center, Government Affairs News Byte, Public Policy blogs, WorldatWork Post blogs, recent videos, tweets and certification requirements.

2012 Work-Life Forum
Shaping the Work-Life Story
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Congratulations to Oman’s First WLCP Class!
Congratulations to the first recipients of the Work-Life Certified Professional (WLCP) designation in Oman. Class participants from the Information Technology Authority, Sultanate Of Oman, left side of table from front to back: Dr. Ramin Mohajer, Ahmed Al Ramadhani, Adil Al Alawi, Ahmed AL Darmaki; and right side of table from front to back: Al Shaima AL Busaidi, Nadia Al Jahwari and Abdulla Al Hosni.

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Men and Work-Life Integration: A Global Study

A Report by WorldatWork's Alliance for Work-Life Progress and WFD Consulting
May 2011

A quarter century after its emergence and a decade after the business case was established, the work-life field is challenged to understand the barriers that persist in preventing both employees (especially men) from fully utilizing work-life options, and managers (often men) from fully supporting them. WFD Consulting and WorldatWork’s Alliance for Work-Life Progress partnered to investigate these challenges on a global scale.

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AWLP 2011 National Work-Life Summit
Ensuring Work-Life Progress: Celebrating the Past and Moving into the Future
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Research Report: Survey on Workplace Flexibility | Watch
Includes prevalence data on flex time, telework and other arrangements and examines the relationship of workplace flexibility to attraction, motivation and retention.

The White House Workplace Flexibility Forum — Article & Playback New! Flexible Rightsizing vs. Layoffs Cost/Benefit Analysis Tool (PDF) Top 10 Takeaways From the Kanter Award for Excellence in Work-Family Research Finalists New! Takeaways from last year’s best research on work-life issues include insight and answers to questions on the equality of all flexibility arrangements, whether work-life issues are the same across cultures and more. Workplace Flexibility — Innovation in Action (free E-book) Testimonials, facts and options to offer a flexible work environment.     Categories of Work-Life Effectiveness Booklet (PDF) Engineer your organization's work-life programs effectively using the seven pillars of work-life effectiveness.     Trauma Informed Care for Women Veterans Experiencing Homelessness (PDF) by the Department of Labor, Women’s Bureau

Tips to Help Win the Battle of Balance (mp3) AWLP Director Kathie Lingle was a featured guest on "Get Over it!" hosted by Libby Gill. Kathie shares useful strategies and tips to help employers and employees win the battle of balance. Free Download Flexible Work Arrangement Self Assessment Questionnaire (Word) Free Download Flexible Work Arrangement Request (Word) Attraction & Retention: The Impact and Prevalence of Work-Life and Benefit Programs In today’s workforce cutting-edge work-life and benefits programs can be the differentiator that gives an organization the advantage in the war for talent. Find out which ones in this new report from WorldatWork. Future Trends in the Dimensions of Work-Life (PDF) Learn the four-prong strategy to a more effective, healthy and productive workplace. S.M.A.R.T. Teleworking Tips for Employers Teleworking allows employees to work smarter, not harder. WorldatWork, an international association of human resource professionals, offers the S.M.A.R.T. way to manage teleworkers. Workers, Workplace and Work: Connecting the Dots at the Speed of Change (PDF) Find out how respecting people for who they are – not just for what they do or produce – pays off for all stakeholders: employers, employees, customers, shareholders, families, and communities. Work-Life Effectiveness Self-Audit (PDF) Assess your organization's work-life communications, indicate programs' strengths and weaknesses and provide an opportunity to set future work-life goals. A Framework for Strategies to Attract, Motivate and Retain Employees (PDF) Learn about the WorldatWork total rewards model and all of the tools available to the employer that may be used to attract, motivate and retain employees.

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