Managing Working Parents & Carers

Director and Parental Transition Coach, Helen Ilsley, shares insights about balancing careers with parental responsibilities for working parents. It’s crucial for managers to reassess their role in tackling systemic gender imbalances in leadership roles by deeply understanding the people we work with. 

Thoughtful suggestions for organisations and individual employees to help those with care responsibilities, particularly those caring for parents and elderly family members.

Strategies for parents, and tips for managers of working parents, to navigate work and family demands over the school break. Prioritise self-care, communicate effectively, and create a flexible plan for a successful school holiday period.

Supporting your working parents and carers can have its own nuances. Executive coach and parent Jyoti Choitram provides insight on the little things that can go a long way.

Receiving the diagnosis that your child is Neurodivergent can be an unexpected challenge. Active champion of Neurodiversity and expert Parental Transition Coach Roxanne Hobbs provides an insight and tips for both managers and working parents based off her personal experience.

We’re delighted to welcome Jennifer Petriglieri back to our Shifting the Needle podcast to move the conversation on from ‘dual career couples’ in episode 4, to why we need to rethink leadership development of executive women, how it’s not about ‘fixing the women’, and why marginal flexibility is a good thing. Listen to the new episode on Women’s Leadership Development here or watch the video above.

Pedro Martins, Chief Growth Officer at Total Media, talks to Geraldine, founder and CEO of ECC, on managing parents from his perspective of a father and a manager. Pedro explains how he aims to ensure that his teams are happy and therefore motivated.

Most of your talent will become parents at some point in their lives and they’ll want to do this at a point in their careers just when they’re really beginning to add value. Find out what this means for you as a manager and what it means to be a manager who ‘gets it’!

The approach you take as the manager of a parent is one of the most significant factors in shaping your employee’s beliefs about whether they will be able to do well at work and at home. Executive Coach, Karen Falcocchio, lays out three common traps you should avoid.

We know that for working parents their manager has a critical impact on whether they thrive or indeed leave an organisation. To help you support working parents in their transition, we’ve compiled some of our favourite checklists, tools and tips for you to use into this downloadable toolkit.

In this episode, Geraldine speaks with the founders of the global initiative called ‘Inclusion Nudges’, Tinna C. Nielsen and Lisa Kepinski, to discuss how their methods help the brain to change its unconscious behaviour and close the intentions-actions gap by addressing the implicit norms in our cultures and systems.

Geraldine Gallacher reveals several statements that she has heard multiple times from managers when she asked them about their management style. They’re widely held beliefs. But they could mark leaders out as being out of touch. So, if you’re interested in future-proofing your management style, read on.