Managing Workload Pocketbook by  Will Thomas

Teaching is a challenging and rewarding profession. If there’s a downside, it’s the workload: not properly managed it can lead to stress and related problems. If you feel you could be using time better – working less and enjoying life more – then this book offers some useful tips, tools and strategies for work-life balancing. Sections on stress, attitudes and habits, time management and looking after yourself lead to a helpful workload evaluation tool at the end of the book. Drawing on the experiences of real teachers in real schools, you sense that Will Thomas understands the pressures and challenges peculiar to the job and his common sense approach is welcome.

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• Develop your work-based skills
• Be able to gain highly individualised approaches to challenges
• Improve your effectiveness in a range of areas including
• People skills
• Personal productivity
• Work-life balance and time management
• Confidence
• Career progression/business development
• Dealing with challenging people or situations
• Deal with negative emotions that constrain you

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