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How many people start the year wanting to leave their jobs because it doesn’t fit with their home life? Work-life balance is the term of the decade as employees grapple with the ever-increasing demands of work and home life. But as workplaces adapt to the call from career savvy professionals to be rewarded with flexibility and wellbeing support for the commitment to their work, never before have w...

Before commencing parental leave, it is important to discuss with your manager/supervisor and/or people representative the amount of communication you wish to receive whilst on leave. Keeping in touch with progress and changes in your department and in the company while you are on parental leave will assist you in a smooth transition when you return to work. Join Emma Walsh and Lucy Dahill as they...

It's never too early to start thinking about how you will manage your child care arrangements around work once you return from leave. Join Kiri Stejko and Lucy Dahill in this short audio which provides some top practical tips and key considerations to make the preparation easier.

It's important to plan and prepare for a conversation with your manager about your impending leave; how your working arrangements may need to change in the future and how your work will be performed in your absence. Working together with your manager will ensure a more positive transition. Join Emma Walsh, Kiri Stejko and Lucy Dahill as they provide some practical examples of how you can opti...

Keeping healthy and being safe at work is critical for expectant parents. This means you and your manager may need to consider what needs to change or be accommodated as a result of your pregnancy. Whilst many expectant parents can carry on and work in the same capacity as they did previously, it is important to acknowledge and accept that some things may need to be adjusted or stopped altogether....

When you become pregnant, there are responsibilities and obligations both you and your employer must be aware of in order to manage your transition to and from parental leave. Join Emma Walsh, Kiri Stejko and Lucy Dahill in this short audio as they discuss some of the essential requirements you will need to know along with some practical tips on self care at work during your pregnancy.

Returning to work after a period of parental leave can be an emotional time for some parents as they worry how they will cope with this major life transition. In this recording, Kiri Stejko, CSO Parents At Work, shares her own experience returning to work after her second child, along with some important factors to consider to best prepare yourself and ensure you have the proper support in place t...

The transition back to work after parental leave can be smooth if we take the time to focus on what it is we really want. As Parents At Work CEO Emma Walsh highlights in this short audio, the most important conversation you need to have is with yourself, considering questions like what would make your transition easier, what would provide support to you at this time, and what would help you feel m...

Join Lucy Dahill as she explores what a flexible work arrangement could look like. Flexible work practices can vary for each individual depending upon the type of work, work pattern available to employees, and the effect flexibility has on the employer. A flexible work arrangement can be classified as a variation to the standard full-time core job functions including a change of location as to whe...

A flexible work approach focuses on outcome-driven performance as opposed to attendance-driven performance. It is about you having the opportunity to design and decide how your work will be done and how you will coordinate your schedule with your own needs, the needs of your team and of the wider organisation. Join Lucy Dahill as she takes you through some key points when considering to work more...

It is important to recognise the link between our day and night and to see that it is part of a ongoing cycle that will impacts on our wellbeing. With the understanding that our day impacts our night and our night, in turn, impacts our day, start by examining your own sleep and waking cycle. Is there anything you could improve upon in your day, to support a more rejuvenating sleep at night?

There are many ways in which to create flexibility in a role. The arrangement needs to meet both the needs of the employee and the employer. Join Parents At Work, CEO, Emma Walsh to find out more in this short three minute audio.

Join Parents At Work CEO, Emma Walsh, as she takes managers through what needs to be planned for before your employee returns to work. Becoming a parent is a life changing experience and many employees find that their life needs and career goals shift and change during this time.  Planning and communication is critical for both the employee and employer. The better connected you are with your...

Join Parents At Work CEO, Emma Walsh, as she takes managers through the importance of staying in touch with your employee during parental leave to ensure a successful return to work. Employees receiving paid parental leave have the option to keep in touch with the workplace. The purpose of the keeping in touch provision is to allow an employee to remain connected with their workplace and help them...

There are many things for you to consider when you first hear an employee is expecting the arrival of a child. As a manager you need to balance delivery of expectations for the team as well as supporting your employee through significant change. This short audio from Parents At Work CEO, Emma Walsh, will cover considerations for you in leading your team.

There are many things for you to consider when you first hear an employee is expecting the arrival of a child into their family. As a manager, you need to support your employee’s health and wellbeing and you also need to balance this with the delivery expectations for the team. This short audio delivered by Emma Walsh, CEO, Parents At Work, will cover considerations for helping your employee prepa...

Join complementary health and wellbeing practitioner, Katie Walls for a short 8 minute meditation to reconnect with yourself through the day. This meditation is for everyone and can be done anywhere, providing it is a supportive space to do so. Enjoy as you sink into a greater depth of stillness within yourself.

Complementary Health and Wellbeing practitioner Katie Walls talks us through a short meditation that can be done anywhere, anytime. Anyone can do this mediation and it's a very simple way to help reduce the feeling of overwhelm and stress in your day.

In this short 3 minute audio, Lucy Dahill offers some useful tips for discussing flexible work arrangements with your manager and what to do if your flexible work requests are denied.

In this short 2 minute audio, Lucy Dahill takes us through how you can design a flexible approach to work when balancing work and family life.

Lucy Dahill talks to Founder of Parents At Work, Emma Walsh about the reality of being a working parent in today's world. Emma provides some great and useful tips on how to balance work and family when returning to work after parental leave. What rules and boundaries do you want to set to support your return? What conversations do you need to be having? What are good questions to ask yourself to c...

Lucy Dahill talks to executive career coach Kiri Stejko about how to best prepare your family for your return to work after parental leave. Kiri shares why it's important to do some planning before your return, what some of the challenges can be if you don't and some useful things to think through around who will do what. Kiri gives us a reality check on what's possible.

Lucy Dahill talks to Executive Career Coach Kiri Stejko and Founder of Parents At Work about what to consider when it comes to how long you take parental leave for. Kiri and Emma share the variations of how different people approach their parental leave differently and why that may be supportive for them. What conversations could you have as a family and what implications do you need to consider?

It is vital to look after yourself if you want to be able to nurture your relationships, but what does that look like on a practical basis? How do you fit 'you' into an already busy day? In this episode, youth advocate, teen expert, and mother of three teenagers, Lucy Dahill, discusses the importance of self-care for parents - including the consequences on the family due to lack of self-care, and...

We build our teens up for 13 years to prepare for the HSC or their final exams and then cannot understand why we see such high rates of anxiety. How do we help our teens keep exams in perspective from the start? In this episode youth advocate, teen expert, and mother of three teenagers - Lucy Dahill from Why Be You - discusses the pressure teens feel from impending exams and how parents can help t...