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Employers, Innovative Organizations and
Family Friendly Corporations
What does your company currently offer employees to help them juggle their work and home life? As an organization how does your work-life balance program measure up? The demands of the workplace - from the mailroom to the boardroom – and the challenges of family life in today’s culture can place tremendous strain on a company’s workforce. The pressures of work and family can take a toll on performance, morale, commitment and productivity. Personalized parent coaching is an excellent way to reduce those pressures and increase productivity, manage transition, set vision and attain goals, and improve interpersonal relations both at home and at work.
Do you want to be known as:
- an innovative company that responds to emergent trends?
- a proactive workplace that addresses the needs of your employees before they negatively impact the bottom line?
- a business that is dedicated to your employees overall well being?
Take action to put your company on Working Mothers 100 Best Companies list. Already on the list? Congratulations!! Being there looks good. Want to be even better and maintain that standing for years to come? Then expand your family friendly status by offering PCI Certified parent coaching services. Parent coaching will help your company accrue the many benefits that come from focused, organized, self-confident employees:
- reducing parent stress = centered employees
- eliminating distractions = mindful and focused workers
- expanding organizational skills = reduced absenteeism/tardiness
- increasing a feeling of competence as parents = enhanced productivity
- nurturing a feeling of fulfillment as a parent = intensified employee morale
- heightened connection to family = strengthened commitment to work
- satisfied working parents = better retention and recruitment
PCI Certified Parent Coaching will help you strengthen your bottom line!
The Progressive Parent, LLC is a parent coaching business that provides quality certified parent coaching services to help individuals and couples maximize their parenting skills and manage the challenges of being a working parent in today’s world. Many of our clients struggle to achieve and sustain a work-life balance that works for them.
Relationships are key! – nurturing connections enhances teamwork and leads to success!
- Current studies on executive coaching report an ROI of 5 to 7 times the initial investment!
- The results of three pilot studies conducted by The Parent Coaching Institute (PCI) provide evidence that parent coaching is effective in increasing parental self-care and confidence, a parent’s ability to access information as well as increasing their enjoyment in parenting.
- LifeCare®, Inc., provider of comprehensive specialty care services in the work-life industry, conducted a poll in May 2007 to assess just how successful today’s workforce is at balancing their work and private lives. The results revealed that 41 percent of respondents characterize their situations as somewhat or very unbalanced. This indicates that employers have a real opportunity to help people better manage their lives, reduce stress and live more productively in all aspects of their lives. A recent article on Forbes.com, cited that 85% of recruiters said they have seen candidates reject a job offer because it wouldn’t include enough work-life balance, and 90% of recruiters said that work-life considerations are now more important to workers than they were just five years ago.
Working for a family friendly company alone does not address all needs. Regardless of flex time, child care and the option of working from home, juggling two jobs – parenthood and career – is a never ending challenge. Join the emergent trend and address the work-life balance needs of your working parents by offering them the support of a certified parent coach.
A parent coach will:
- assist working parents in finding a flow between career and home life that maximizes their potential in both realms.
- support working parents as they transition to and from parental leave, birth and adoption.
- help working parents make the necessary adjustments to get back to work - ready to work.
Retaining employees remains a critical business objective as companies strive to hold on to intellectual capital by keeping employees in the organization. Quality parent coaching can help address that challenge by giving working parents a greater incentive to remain with their employers – much like the recent benefits derived by forward thinking companies that now offer child care to their employees. When people leave a company, there is an expense incurred by the organization to rehire and train their replacements. Further, the knowledge and expertise that walks out the door can take years to replace.
Act now to offer PCI Certified parent coaching services through The Progressive Parent, LLC – include our service in your benefits package, offer discounts, and provide workshops or learning lunches to your working parents. Parent coaching will soon be part of the must have recruitment and retention tools to attract the best and most talented employees and retain top performers.
Contact us to enhance the work-life balance program in your organization today!
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