Coping With Tiredness
When we’re tired, it’s hard to make it through the day without damaging our mood, relationships and job.
In the modern workforce, workers of all genders juggle caring responsibilities with paid work. Finding ways to help out on the homefront keeps employees happier, more engaged, and more productive at work, which is always good for business.
Retaining more parents by helping them create a work-parent equilibrium has saved organisations up to 1.5 times an employee’s salary, as a result of reduced business costs related to recruitment, retraining and restructures.
Life as a working parent is incredibly fulfilling, but it isn’t always easy. Parenting is an 18-year gig that affects men, women, adoptive and biological parents, parents with newborns and teenagers — all in different ways.
Mums and dads everywhere, at all stages of parenthood, are desperately trying to successfully juggle their work and life hours to create a routine that works for their careers and their families.
The challenges are real at work and at home. Author Annabel Crabb summarises this perfectly:
“The obligation for working mothers is a very precise one: the feeling that one ought to work as if one did not have children while raising one’s children as if one did not have a job.”
Parents often create extra, unwarranted pressure on themselves at work. An overzealous disposition to prove to yourself, your coworkers, and your boss that you work like you don’t have other responsibilities or priorities in life. And whilst this mindset is creating immense stress for working parents, the side-effect is that they cannot see ways to make positive changes for themselves; both at work or at home.
Although 2 in 5 Australian employees are parents, many businesses still struggle to:
Most businesses rely on solutions such as flex-work arrangements and generalist wellbeing and professional development programs to address these challenges. This leads to loss of talent and large, unnecessary business costs associated with recruitment, retraining and restructuring.
Our Thrive! working parent wellbeing program supports your employee to become a more passionate, engaged and creative member of your workforce. Helping them to understand:
is critical to your employee’s sense of self-worth and their ability to be productive and happy at work.
The Thrive! program is ideal for businesses looking to:
Supporting working parents in your organisation is crucial to realising the full potential of your workforce.
While compliance with legal obligations assists you to create a workplace that supports working parents, the best employers take this a step further by implementing specific programs that truly advance this goal.
Thrive! combines educational and formal coaching approaches to support your business in achieving:
Through personalised wellness coaching, we assist your employees to overcome struggles specific to their working parent experience, including (but not limited to):
Creating the fundamental shift towards a wellness-centred and parent-positive workplace culture requires a collaborative understanding of key concepts and related strategies that can be implemented into both an employee’s working and personal life – knowing that one will always profoundly effect the other.
We provide a highly engaging and practical wellness
workshop program for delivery to small or large groups of your employees, which aims to up-skill and empower working parents in a large variety of lifestyle areas.
Working parents, as well as the rest of your employee population, can access our on-demand educational platform, which contains online courses on a large range of wellbeing topics tailored specifically to these audiences.
These courses both support and empower your employees to make positive changes in their lives, which help them to engage more with work, improve their health and be their best, and often inspire others around them to live happier as well.
Your employees can access a wide variety of activities, digital resources and practical tools to assist them in navigating work, family and wellbeing.
if it were more parent-positive and flexible [AHRC]
within the next 12 months due to difficulties combining their job with caring [PAW]
and state they are under ‘a lot’ of stress or ‘a great deal’ of stress [PAW]
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Helen C. / Statutory Planning ManagerYou’ll be surprised what you can achieve during your transition back to work with a dedicated coach. Get ready to be challenged (in a good way)!
India G. / Executive AssistantI thought this would be a really tough time, but I’m surprised how easily I was able to slot back in, thanks to your practical coaching support – it really helped to get me to a much better place mentally and emotionally.
Claire W. / Marketing ManagerWhen I first started coaching I didn’t know what I wanted from the sessions but it became obvious the moment I started talking. I feel a lot clearer around the kind of working mother I want to be.
April H. / Childcare Centre DirectorCoaching is a fantastic opportunity to learn who you are and what is important to you. To know that you are not alone with how you are feeling and that you can change this.
Alyssa T. / Communications Manager[Coaching] has been extremely helpful in helping me to better manage stress, rebuild confidence and identify the things that make me feel fulfilled.
Jodie N. / TeacherThank you, Nikki, for an interesting and engaging series. It was a timely reminder for me. Thank you for providing a prompt to pause, reflect and develop some strategies and an action plan to address my wellness.
Simone / Office AdminFrom the very first session, I felt like a cloud had been lifted from my mind. Then, with each session, my mind has become more clear as I find myself again. Thank you so much, Nikki.
Rebecca O. / TeacherI love what you are doing for mothers like me. You are inspirational and have such a powerful and positive impact on many of us women, who need this in our lives.