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You know that supporting parents is good for business, and that retaining your valued employees ensures significant savings in attrition costs. But where do you start? There’s a lot of advice out there and it can feel overwhelming. That’s where Power of the Parent® steps in – we’ll guide you through the transformation you’re looking for by figuring out what you’re already great at and what needs some fresh, practical thinking.

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helping to shape workplaces so parents and businesses can thrive

Supporting your bottom line

At Power of the Parent we know that forward thinking businesses like you want to nurture and support parents in the workplace, all whilst reducing recruitment costs, growing a gender balanced leadership team and be wonderfully profitable.

With the average cost to recruit hovering just over £30,000 in the UK (source: HRReview), getting strategic in developing and retaining your valued employees is exactly what we can help you with.

Explore

Explore what’s happening in your business right now, the vision for the future and alignment to your commercial and talent strategies.

Plan

How to go beyond policies and practically support parents at any stage alongside your thriving business.

Transform

Seeing the difference in your organisational culture, growing line manager capability and empowerment, moving out of HR and into a total business conversation.

Sustain

Lasting change that leaves a positive legacy across everything from your engagement, retention, gender pay gap challenges and sense of belonging for your valued talent.

If you’re a company we can help with:

Building your parental support strategy from the foundations

Bespoke workshops and events

Parental leave transition strategy, workshops and coaching

Key note speaking and panel discussions

ERG creation and support

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KIND WORDS

Charlotte is absolutely incredible. The care, preparation, and expertise that she provides means that you’re left with a finished product that will become a long term resource for your company and colleagues. The Learning Sessions that Charlotte provided were insightful, relevant, and thorough. I would highly recommend her to anyone who’s interested in learning and offering learning opportunities for parental support in the workplace.

Elisha, DE&I professional

- Taylor and Francis

KIND WORDS

It has been a pleasure to work with Charlotte in recent months to craft some tailored training for line managers supporting parent colleagues in their teams. As part of developing the session, Charlotte took the time to meet with several colleagues from around the business to listen to and understand their experiences and the challenges they may have faced owing to their parental responsibilities, and that was borne out in some targeted feedback for the business in how we can best support parents, both within and outside the workplace. The two live sessions (one at a very bright-eyed 5am to accommodate APAC and ANZ colleagues) were thoroughly practical and thought-provoking, and we have had some fantastic feedback from colleagues and managers who attended. We will be integrating these resources into our reboarding program and I'm confident they'll help to improve the experience of parent colleagues at Taylor & Francis. Many thanks to Charlotte and I hope we'll have an opportunity to work together in the future.

Andrew, Parent Network Lead

- Taylor and Francis

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PARENTAL GUIDANCE:

everything you need to know about developing your parent support strategy

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Parental Guidance – developing your parental support strategy

A well-designed parental support strategy goes beyond policies — it can transform your workplace, benefiting both your people and your business. Join our free 60 minute workshop to figure out your essential foundations.

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“companies in the top quartile for gender diversity on executive teams were 25 percent more likely to have above-average profitability than companies in the fourth quartile”

Sundiatu Dixon-Fyle, Kevin Dolan, Vivian Hunt, and Sara Prince Diversity wins: How inclusion matters, McKinsey, 19th May 2020, available here

what we do

Empowering parents to feel strong and supportedin the workplace

Off the shelf and being ‘done to’ isn’t for our clients. You’re looking for collaboration with a huge dollop of expertise and fresh thinking from us, and that’s what you’ll get. We’ll work together from the beginning, building transformational change to empower parents and line managers. You’ll have bespoke recommendations for you (once we’ve done some initial research) and you can expect things like:

An action plan to incorporate what’s already working well into new processes and practices in areas like recruitment, reward strategies, talent management and role design.

Shaping a 12-18 month activity agenda (including things like coaching, group workshops, developing just-in-time online content and line manager support) that has your business goals at the heart of it.

Policy recommendations and benchmarking

If you’ve got an employee resource group at the ready, we’ll get them involved in the engagement of the business – and if you haven’t we’ll help you set one up!

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Power of the parent: The Strategy Club

An organisational membership carefully designed for business leaders and decision-makers who are committed to creating workplaces where parents and carers can truly thrive. A space for those who see the immense value parents bring to the world of work and want to lead the way in making real, sustainable change.

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who we are

Meet our founder Charlotte Speak

I’m Charlotte Speak, mum of two, change maker and coach for parents in the workplace, empathetic listener and avid theme park explorer.

I work with businesses to help attract, retain and develop their utterly brilliant team members who happen to be parents.

Seeing parents struggling with their identity, hearing from others who didn’t see their value anymore, stories from dads hiding that they wanted to spend time with their children and line managers who were so scared about saying the wrong thing to a colleague on parental leave… they said nothing at all. My eyes were opened and I knew something had to change.

It led me to set up Power of the Parent in 2018 to make workplaces somewhere parents and businesses can thrive.

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“replacing members of staff incurs significant costs for employers: £30,614 per employee”

Editor, It Costs Over £30K to Replace a Staff Member, HRReview, available here.