Alliance for Work-Life Progress and WorldatWork have assembled a listing of things you and your organization can do to recognize National Work & Family Month. Our listing will provide you with additional resources and information about work-life effectiveness.

What You Can Do

Workplace Ideas
Pick activities from our list that you can do at your company to celebrate National Work & Family Month.

Conduct a work-life needs assessment. National Work and Family Month is a great time to learn which work-life programs are working or not in such areas as:

•     Workplace Flexibility
•     Paid Time Off
•     Health and Wellness
•     Caring for Dependents
•     Financial Support
•     Community Involvement
•     Culture Change Initiatives

A simple, complimentary assessment available here will help focus an organization's work-life communications, target program strengths and weaknesses, and give employees a range of strategies to cope with pressure both in and outside the workplace. Click here to see a copy of the work-life audit.

Launch new work-life initiatives. Add one new initiative in often-overlooked areas of work-life such as financial support and community involvement. For example, Pepsi Bottling Group successfully implemented HealthyMoney, a free program to help PBG’s 35,000 employees become empowered with the knowledge, tools and confidence to build life-long financial stability. Hospital Corporation of America’s Caring for the Community program engages employees by encouraging their charitable passions. An employee may take up to 24 hours of paid volunteer leave each year. When the employee adds just one more hour of personal time, HCA provides a $500 contribution to that organization. HCA also matches donations of up to $750 to a charity of the employee’s choice.

Celebrate and communicate the organization’s commitment to helping employees balance work and life. Send a communication from the CEO to all employees about the company’s commitment to work-life effectiveness. Update your Web site and intranet to include information about National Work and Family Month. Blog about work-life programs and include links to full descriptions. Additional ideas, templates and resources are available on awlp.org.

Share best practices by applying for work-life awards. Each year, AWLP recognizes best practices through the Work-Life Innovative Excellence Award. Progressive organizations such as Accenture, Hospital Corporation of America (HCA), U.S. Navy and more have all been recipients of the AWLP Work-Life Innovative Excellence Award.

At the individual level, the AWLP Work-Life Rising Star recognition is given to emerging work-life talent who demonstrate leadership and growing contributions to the work-life community.

These awards are now accepting nominations through Oct. 15.

Commit to culture change – To date, more than 100 human resources practitioners have earned their WLCP® credential from the WorldatWork Society of Certified Professionals®.  Designees now have the strategic knowledge and change management skills needed to design and implement work-life effectiveness.

Sample Internal Communication
Use our template to announce your company’s recognition events and reinforce your work-life programs to employees via newsletters, intranets, e-mail, etc.

Sample Media Release
Use our template to announce your company’s recognition events for National Work & Family Month.

News You Can Use
Print-ready, copyright free, work-life articles to use in your employee newspaper, newsletter, Web site, intranet or other communications.

Download Poster for Your Use (PDF)
Download and print out the official National Work & Family Month poster to promote your company's recognition events. Whether your organization will be holding a Benefits Fair, a Brown Bag Lunch or hosting a guest speaker, use this poster to write in the events your organization will sponsor to help promote your event around the workplace and to show your organization supports National Work & Family Month.

Download Logo for Your Use (JPG)
Download our logo and link your employee intranet or Web site to initiate discussion in the workplace about work-life effectiveness programs and policies all year long.

Book a Speaker/Speaker’s Bureau (www.worldatwork.org)
WorldatWork staff are experts in the field of total rewards and work-life effectiveness and are available for speaking engagements. Access a list of available speakers and topics.     

Work-Life Resources

Categories of Work-Life Effectiveness (PDF)
Use the Work-Life Effectiveness Categories to build and manage a successful portfolio.

Articles & Reports
Access free work-life articles, reports, tools, and timelines from Alliance for Work-Life Progress.

.Work-Life Calendar
View work-life events from around the world and/or submit your group’s work-life event.

Total Rewards Model (www.worldatwork.org)
Learn about total rewards from the leading professional association, WorldatWork and all it’s terms and definitions for the five key areas of total rewards: compensation, benefits, work-life, performance and recognition, and development and career opportunities.

Work-Life Educational Courses (www.worldatwork.org)
Learn how to improve both your organization’s bottom line and the lives of your employees with work-life educational courses from WorldatWork.

Work-Life Webinars On-Demand  (www.worldatwork.org)
WorldatWork Webinars On-Demand allow you to replay popular WorldatWork work-life Webinars.

Work-Life Books (www.worldatwork.org)
Browse for work-life titles from WorldatWork Press.