Not managing today?

Interesting: managers looking for meaning in their work and lives that work isn't delivering. Intersting to see the Christian responses:

Encouragingly, some Christians are bucking the trend: one company has capped executive hours at 45 per week; individuals are downshifting, or restricting their own hours; others continue as they are, believing confidently that God wants them to be there, and finding strength through him. (Please post your own insights and stories below.)



However, for the majority of Christians in work, our LICC research reveals that the big issues are stress and burnout, maintaining integrity, relationships, overwork, insecurity and redundancy.



This is a big area that I seem to have been coming across again and again -even before I was a HE chaplain. Not just Christians want to get balance in theirl lives. It seems to be a major theme that emerges from life-cacing work too. My dissertation is on the similarities and differences between life-coaching and spiritual direction. a lot of similarities seem to be about this focus on work-life balance and a search for meaning.



I guess my question is how we help Christians more fully to see their work as a spiritual issue [over and above a source of funds for giving and an arena for witness] and to make sure that churches and pastors resource the working life of fellow Christians?



I think too that those involved in SpiDir have a lot to learn from life coaching too.