Work and Life Programs FAQs

Managing Your Finances Day to Day

It’s important to be on time when paying bills.   It may be hard to do around a set payroll schedule.   How can the Partnership’s Managing Finances course help with that?

Managing Finances for the Future

As a CSEA employee, my goal in life is to get my own house, but I don’t seem to save enough money.   Does the Partnership offer any courses that may be able to help me?

Conflict Resolution and How to Deal with Stress Courses

As managers and CSEA leaders, we need employees to be able to stay calm at work and get along well with others.  Which course do you recommend, Coping with Stress or Dealing with Conflict?

Work and Life Courses

As a NYS manager or CSEA local president, I find it hard to explain to upper management how courses such as Coping with Stress, Dealing with Conflict or Managing Finances can help employees do better at work?   I know my people need the training, but how do I sell it to management?

Managing Your Finances Day to Day

It’s important to be on time when paying bills.   It may be hard to do around a set payroll schedule.   How can the Partnership’s Managing Finances course help with that?

This course may help individuals break the habit of living paycheck to paycheck.   It provides an approach to use when talking to creditors as well as techniques on how to make payment arrangements more convenient to payroll schedules.
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Managing Finances for the Future

As a CSEA employee, my goal in life is to get my own house, but I don’t seem to save enough money.   Does the Partnership offer any courses that can help me?

The Partnership’s Managing Finances course may be just what you need This course will provide you with up-to-date information on how to assess your current financial situation, and it will teach you steps to reach financial goals. [Return to Questions]

Conflict Resolution and How to Deal with Stress Courses

As managers and CSEA leaders, we need employees to be able to stay calm at work and get along well with others.  Which course do you recommend, Coping with Stress or Dealing with Conflict?

If possible, we would suggest that you give employees the opportunity to take both courses!   They can benefit from learning more skills and having a chance to practice them.   Since sometimes it’s unclear whether a situation is impacted by something happening at home, both courses also deal with issues employees encounter at work and at home.   The Coping with Stress course helps identify good and bad symptoms of stress and teaches techniques to minimize bad stress at work and at home.   The Dealing with Conflict course provides techniques to obtain mutually acceptable agreements in every kind of situation.   Participants will learn how to create new habits to deal with angry and difficult people, family responsibilities and other concerns, while teaching different ways of thinking, feeling and acting.  [Return to Questions]

Work and Life Courses

As a NYS manager or CSEA local president, I find it hard to explain to upper management how courses such as Coping with Stress, Dealing with Conflict or Managing Finances can help employees do better at work?   I know my people need the training, but how do I sell it to management?

A straightforward approach, in simple words, might be:   "A healthy mind equals a healthy body equals less sick leave.”   Some of the biggest obstacles to people functioning effectively are the demands that various roles play in their lives.   The Partnership’s Work and Life courses help participants learn to examine what is not working in their lives.   They will get support and guidance on how to balance their work and personal lives.   They will learn what has been keeping them from giving 100%, and learn techniques to manage and separate the two.   Participants will be exposed to new financial habits, techniques on how to deal with people, and different approaches to tackle stress – all of these should help them perform better both at work and at home. [Return to Questions]