Work-Life Balance Assessment

A 43-year-old director of operations at a regional healthcare system works long hours by any measure. He frames this as commitment to the mission. His spouse has said the same thing for three years in different ways. He came to coaching because 'I want to be more strategic' — not because he wants to work less. He hasn't named a balance problem. The Work-Life Balance Assessment includes both a time allocation map and an energy audit, and the energy column is what will open the real question: is the time he's spending in work actually producing return at the rate he assumes?

Frame this around the strategic goal he named, not around balance. 'You said you want to think more strategically and ha...