Guidance to parenthood in the workplace
One of your major challenges as an employer is to attract new talents and retain them.
Working parents, meanwhile, experience a great deal of guilt and frustration at not being able to fully invest themselves, either at work or with their families.
You have a great card to play here to meet these challenges and value your human potential, your most precious leverage for sustainable performance.
A societal commitment of this kind helps strengthen your employer brand, which has a positive leverage effect on employee commitment and increased productivity.
Knowing that a strong employer brand reduces recruitment costs by 43% , this gives you here a double advantage.
Guidance to parenthood in the workplace
One of your major challenges as an employer is to attract new talents and retain them.
Working parents, meanwhile, experience a great deal of guilt and frustration at not being able to fully invest themselves, either at work or with their families.
You have a great card to play here to meet these challenges and value your human potential, your most precious leverage for sustainable performance.
“Work is a living space that needs to be made as caring and respectful as possible. Everyone should be able to express themselves, if they so wish, about their daily joys and difficulties.” Anne-Laure Thomas, Director of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, @L’Oréal in France
A societal commitment of this kind helps strengthen your employer brand, which has a positive leverage effect on employee commitment and increased productivity.
Knowing that a strong employer brand reduces recruitment costs by 43% , this gives you here a double advantage.
Would you like to develop a parental-friendly corporate culture? Here are some suggestions to help you :
Individual
pre/postnatal coaching
The number of women anxious to announce their pregnancy increased from 12% to 21% between 2014 and 2019.
Incorporating supportive resources and a climate of trust allow :
– encourage earlier pregnancy announcements
– work with serenity during pregnancy
– better prepare the mother AND her team for her leave and return.
Coaching start: as from the 2nd trimester of pregnancy.
Second phase: from one week after returning to work to 2 months after her return.
Individual
parental coaching
Being a parent and working require frequent adjustments, generating stress and fatigue. 62% of working parents declare that they work again outside their contractual working hours (81% for executives), survey parenthood 2023.
Parental coaching is an effective way of dealing with complicated moments in “parental work” that affect the worker’s well-being and quality of work.
examples: multiple births, sleep, illness, disability, communication problems, separation, step or single-parent families, teenage years, …
Individual coaching provides: support, help to step back and change perspective.
Coaching starts: whenever the worker is experiencing a parental challenge that is preventing him/her from being fully present and effective at work.
Coaching period: a minimum of 6 sessions.
Workshops and conferences
Conferences to embrace this new vision, with its positive consequences.
Workshops for your management team in order to :
– Develop their benevolence in their communication
– Integrate parental challenges into teamwork management
– Respond to any objections to this innovative vision of work.
Workshops for your (future) parents :
– on topics specific to parenthood
– on reconciling parenthood and work
Audit/consultancy
“Parent-friendly” company
It’s important to review the way you work and adapt certain processes to create a working environment that’s better adapted to the realities of today’s working parents. This will improve their satisfaction and efficiency, and contribute to your company’s profitability.
I propose to take stock of the current situation.
Based on the findings and your objectives, I’ll support you in implementing new measures to contribute to the well-being of your employees and a sustainable, inclusive working environment.
The vision of the working-parents.
If you want to be a welcoming place for parents to work, the coaching sessions with Sophie are a great way to do it. Working while having small children is a challenge unlike any I’ve ever faced. This program not only acknowledges that but it also helps people bridge the transition back to work and gives them strategies and tools to cope. It has the potential to help a lot of people.
Lindsay W.
Valuable workshops that helped us put our situations into words and find ways to improve our day-to-day lives. A trusting environment that encouraged us to share our experiences.