by Kerri Summers | Jan 15, 2021 | Thoughts
It is 297 days since the first lockdown on 23 March 2020 297 days of working and caring for those that need our care. 297 days of juggling working from home and childcare 297 unprecedented days of protecting ourselves and our families from the virus 297 days of trying...
by Kerri Summers | Jan 7, 2021 | Thoughts
For many of our clients, it is connecting with team members that they are missing most as a result of the multiple lockdowns. This should not be a surprise. Strong social connections make people happier and physically healthier which can of course translate into work...
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 Sharon Charlton-Thomson | Nov 12, 2020 | Thoughts
Around the globe leaders have spent the past few months facing one of the toughest leadership tests. If ever the phrase VUCA (the acronym for volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous nature of todays world) felt appropriate to use it is now. With so many unknowns...
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 Sharon Charlton-Thomson | Oct 29, 2020 | Thoughts
We have been exclusively coaching working parents in the UK since 1998. And still there is confusion about what a working parent coach does, and how and whether it is different to a run of the mill executive coach. I get it…. I have heard this confusion many times. Do...
