One-to-One Coaching

Coaching provides a way of supporting individuals to become more confident, creative, and resourceful in solving their own challenges. It can be hugely beneficial at times of change, helping people manage the psychological transition that inevitably accompanies any change of circumstance. And there’s no bigger change than becoming a parent.

We work with individuals and organisations to create the right level of coaching support depending on the needs of your working parents and offer a range of one-to-one coaching interventions.

Common coaching topics include:

Finding our footing as a working parent; reintegrating back into the world of work; managing the overwhelm; finding the balance between work and family life; transitioning to new roles; building resilience and self-confidence.

Organisational benefits

Parental coaching is becoming a more common and vital part of an organisation’s talent retention and ED&I strategy. It contributes towards building family-friendly workplaces that are inclusive, flexible, and supportive, helping mums, dads, and carers to find the right balance between work and family life to optimise productivity and wellbeing.

Benefits:

• Retaining (particularly female) talent in your organisation

• Creating more equal, inclusive and diverse workplaces

• Building a greater sense of belonging and engagement

• Supporting the health and wellbeing of your working parent employees

“Upon returning to work after a year off on parental leave to a new job and managing a newly created team, Gill’s coaching provided invaluable support with helping me to deal with the some of the challenges created by this amount of change. I always came away from my sessions with Gill feeling productive and empowered. The biggest impact for me is that Gill has helped me to realise that I have the answers within me and has provided me with tools and techniques to take forward.” 

Senior Manager, Triodos Bank

Coaching programmes

All one-to-one coaching programmes are designed in collaboration with our clients and are tailored to meet a client’s specific needs.

Typical assignments:

• 6 x 1-hour coaching sessions over a period of 3-6 months. The focus for the coaching is determined by the client.

• 4 x 1-hour parental transition coaching: 1 session before parental leave, 1 session when approaching the return to work, and 2 sessions to support the reintegration into the workplace. Option for additional session with the returner’s Line Manager to help support their reintegration.

• Coaching clinics: Typically consisting of 4 x 45-minute sessions that can be booked by individuals as one-off coaching sessions.