Working Life As A Parent : Surviving to Thriving

In this article we share personal anecdotes alongside offering practical advice and support resources for parents navigating the topic of gender with their families.

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. 

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.

With care responsibilities affecting millions of adults in the UK alone, as a society we need to be fostering spaces where carers can share their experiences and support each other. Geraldine Gallacher’s article is an insight into how she navigated an overwhelming and challenging life event whilst managing her energy and caring for her self. 

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.

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.

In the early years of being a working parent, it is easy to get caught up in firefighting and prioritising the urgent over the important. Sometimes it can feel as if aiming for long-term success has taken a back seat. However, it’s possible to have a contented home life and a fulfilling career – but this requires planning and strategising!

Karen Falcocchio, Executive Coach, gives hints and tips on how to build your confidence. These include how to recognise your strengths, how to appear more confident, and why pushing yourself out of your comfort zone is so important.

As a parent, particularly of young children, you may feel very time poor. More than anything else, what you need is a manager who just “gets it”. Geraldine Gallacher, founder and CEO of ECC, gives her advice on what to do when your manager doesn’t “get it”.

In the early years of being a working parent, it is easy to get caught up in firefighting and prioritising the urgent over the important. Sometimes it can feel as if aiming for long-term success has taken a back seat. However, it’s possible to have a contented home life and a fulfilling career – but this requires planning and strategising!

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.