Do you want to actively support parents in the workplace?
With DE&I firmly on the organisational agenda, supporting parents during this challenging phase, is an impactful and important element of your talent acquisition, talent retention and talent development strategies.
Having worked with hundreds of mums, dads and managers through our corporate group programmes and 1:1 Maternity Coaching over the last ten years, I know and understand the challenges.
We offer a suite of back-to-work programmes for mums, dads and their managers
One of the first coaching professionals to deliver to Back-to-Work programmes in the Irish Market since 2014, Clearbird’s suite of Back-to-Work from Maternity Leave, New Parents and Inclusive Leadership Programmes support diversity and inclusive thinking.
For mums returning to work after maternity leave, we address it all – guilt, imposter syndrome, the challenges of juggling and work/life balance, the challenges of keeping career on track, conflicting demands and competing priorities, personal brand, impact and presence. There is a lot going on during this stage – often in the context of sleep deprivation. No wonder it feels like survival and just getting through.
I work with a new generation of dads who are in a societal transition, are also wondering how to manage this phase. Questions range from
should I actually take the extra paternity leave available?
I want to be a supportive partner and hands-on dad. Help!
how do I balance work and life and not impact my career progression?
Managers are often not quite sure how best to support talent during this phase, maybe afraid of saying the wrong thing. A badly managed return can significantly impact talent retention and performance effectiveness in an already challenging phase.
The feedback from mums, dads and managers is that it is good not to feel alone, to have open and honest conversations about the realities of returning to work after maternity and paternity leave and to feel supported by their organisations.
Feeding the female leadership pipeline
Through Clearbird’s tried and tested programmes, you can create space to help new parents take the reins on navigating this phase of their career with conscious awareness and conscious choices rather than struggling through in survival mode.
I support organisations and managers to manage the return to work more effectively, reducing the risk of attrition, by losing great talent at this key phase.
Clearbird’s Back to Work from Maternity Leave Programmes are my pride and joy, with participants repeatedly feeling more empowered, energised and re-focused at the end of the process
A client recently summed it up when she said – ‘no one tells you that you can love your career and your baby too’. We need to move past the story that we have to choose.
The programmes are grounded in feeding the female leadership pipeline. We help organisation retain and develop their female talent and support that female talent in managing this career phase.
Mums leave the programme feeling empowered, re-energised, re-focused and importantly more confident in their ability to manage this phase at home and at work.
We support new dads/parents who are also thinking about what this new phase means for them and to reflect on what it means to be a generation in transition.
We support, guide and challenge managers in successfully managing these key life transition points – with an eye on retaining and developing female talent.
