by Kerri Summers | Dec 4, 2020 | Advent
With so much complexity around work schedules, school hours, childcare and children’s activities, sharing the load of everyday parenting and working by creating your own ‘home team’ can help to abate unpredictability and chaos. The home team could comprise day to day...
by Kerri Summers | Dec 2, 2020 | Thoughts
In a meeting with a client today we were discussing the programme of talks for their Working Parent Network next year and the conversation kept on circling back to boundaries, or rather lack of boundaries, and managing distractions. How exhausting this was because we...
by Kerri Summers | Nov 6, 2020 | Thoughts
We know that managers are integral in making things work for working parents. Working parents tell us that the line manager is the single most important external factor that can make or break them. We asked our working parents to share what a good manager during a...
by Kerri Summers | Oct 27, 2020 | Thoughts
When the Gender Pay Gap Reports are submitted on the 4th April next year it is predicted that we will see companies backsliding. This is backed up by an abundance of reports* showing that women are significantly more likely to be furloughed, lose their jobs or leave...
by Kerri Summers | Oct 12, 2020 | Thoughts
In our executive coaching work with working parents we have noticed different groups emerging, defined by their response to the crisis. The group that is most concerning as we continue to work from home for the foreseeable future, we have dubbed the Hiders....
