Managing Your Career Whilst Caring For Others

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

In this article, we introduce the Boundaried Worker and suggest ways for individuals to navigate work-life reconciliation to benefit the individual, their team and the organisation.

If you feel at this crossroads, wondering if the only solution is stopping work altogether, pause first to ask yourself whether you have explored all the options. Here you will find some advice on how to handle and work through these common but challenging phases.

Confidence is an important ingredient to career success. It’s an active mindset, an emotion that impacts our motivation, our ability to communicate and ultimately, our results. Debbie Moore, Executive Coach and Director of Product Design, provides some specific tips and techniques to try out.

When we are busy, feeling overwhelmed or stressed, we become extremely focused on the day to day and the to-do list. This approach can mean that we are not lifting our heads and seeing the bigger picture on the horizon.

How do I achieve a balance between work & family life is a common question we hear from working parents. Debbie and Patrick, Executive Coaches, offer some strategies and tactics that might go some way to improving the balance you are looking for.

Daniel, a trader with a Global Investment Bank, talks candidly about his experience of becoming a parent including the adjustments he made. He also offers some practical tips for combining work and family.

Emma Spitz, Executive Coach and Director, talks about how to approach those tough conversations. She gives some practical steps to take in preparation, during the conversation and afterwards.

In this episode, Geraldine Gallacher chats with Jennifer Petriglieri about her book ‘Couples That Work’ and discusses dual-career couples. Jennifer has spent over a decade researching how people’s close relationships shape who they become professionally and personally and has also spent the past 6 years studying the lives of dual-career couples.

Reena Dayal, Executive Coach, invites you to consider how by honouring your values, playing to your strengths and looking at things differently you can reveal your brilliance and perhaps even help others show theirs.

Managing your career can become more challenging when you are caring for others. Every so often it’s a good idea to step back from the day-to-day pressures, and map where you want to go in the future. This checklist can be a good reminder of the things that could help you become ‘career fit’ once again.