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...
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 Sharon Charlton-Thomson | Oct 15, 2020 | Thoughts
Its national adoption week this week. Being an adoptive parent is something I am immensely grateful for. I have two adopted children, the eldest adopted at 13 months old now almost 16 (WOW, where did that go), a talented dancer, a gifted mathematician and a natural...
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....
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...
