Evaluate the impact of life transitions on personal, family, and work priorities.

Evaluation should include

  • reviewing life transitions (e.g., birth, changes in family structure, illness, job change, relocation, death) that affect personal, family, and work priorities
  • identifying methods of coping with life transitions. 

Process/Skill Questions:

Thinking

  • How can individuals and families recognize and accept the effects of life transitions in their lives?
  • How can life transitions in an individual’s personal life affect them at work?

Communication

  • What communication skills can be used to express personal and family feelings during the life transition?
  • How can an employee use positive communication skills to help navigate at work while going through a life transition?

Leadership

  • How can leadership skills be used to help individuals, families, and employees plan for anticipated transitions?
  • What leadership skills can be used to ease any difficulties that life transitions bring?

Management

  • How can individuals and families prepare for life transitions?
  • What resources and support can employers enact to help employees who are experiencing a life transition?