by Sharon Charlton-Thomson | Oct 7, 2020 | Reading
Playing Big by Tara Mohr is the absolute best practical guide for women in the workplace. Tara Brach, author of Radical Acceptance & True Refuge, stated that ‘This is a book that can transform your life’. Many of our coaches have trained with Tara. Her...
by Sharon Charlton-Thomson | Oct 1, 2020 | Thoughts
How are you doing? Six and a half months into the pandemic. Can you remember the heady days when we thought it would be over by Easter? Covid-19 has brought disruption like no other to our organisations and placed new and extraordinary demands on us as working...
by Kerri Summers | Sep 24, 2020 | Thoughts
The future of work is high on the agenda of most senior leadership teams right now. What will the workplace look like after the pandemic? We are encouraging our clients to think about the space between now and pandemic over. Use this in-between space to lay...
by Sharon Charlton-Thomson | Sep 19, 2020 | Reading
The best parenting book (in our humble opinion!) The shelves are heaving with books on the ‘how to’s’ of parenting. But we cannot parent well until we know our child! In Diary of a Baby, Daniel Stern opens up the world of the new born through to 4 years old in the...
by Kerri Summers | Sep 18, 2020 | Thoughts
Due to the lessons of home working in the past 6 months, we are seeing an unmistakable and enduring shift in culture from presenteeism and micromanagement to management built on trust. Management built on trust is something working parents welcome because of the...
by Kerri Summers | Sep 10, 2020 | Thoughts
With the kids back at school did we really think that working parents would send them on their way with a sigh of relief and then get back to work as usual? The working parents that we have been talking to this week are just beginning to process what they have been...
by Kerri Summers | Sep 9, 2020 | Thoughts
We have been specialising in supporting working parents for 23 years, shining a light on how remarkable they are and helping to create the conditions under which they can thrive. Whilst the pandemic lockdown has been very difficult for many working parents, there...
by Sharon Charlton-Thomson | Sep 9, 2020 | Reading
So we’ve reached September, often a time of transition for many working parents settling children back into routines after the summer and starting back at nurseries and schools, not to mention our transitions – for some back into offices. Transition often means busy,...
by Kerri Summers | Sep 4, 2020 | Reading
It’s time to put down all of those self help books you’ve ever bought and pick up the one that tells you all you need to know about living your best life. It’s a five minute read you will want to come back to again and again. We’re reading The Boy, The Mole, The Fox...
by Kerri Summers | Sep 4, 2020 | Thoughts
“My kids are not properly back to school for another two weeks, we don’t know yet if school buses will run and everything seem to be up in the air – it’s a right old shambles” For working parents and their employers who were banking on things being ‘back to normal’...
