Partnering with leading employers to provide hands-on coaching that empowers working parents to thrive at work and at home.

Beyond the obvious reasons an organization cares for their staff, there’s a real business case (aka the bottom line) for building an integrated workplace that’s inclusive of parents. Sounds incredibly basic, right?
However, when parents themselves have trouble navigating the transitions that life presents them, how should a business handle them? Knowing that parenting lasts, at minimum, 18 years, we know families cope with transitions long after the parental leave & sleepless nights.
Where there is no roadmap, Cara Pollard Coaching (CPC) works to create a new path—helping to shift parents away from less successful, repeating behaviors and generational patterns, to creating authentic relationships with their children.
CPC has developed their own program, SPIRAL™, which strives to stop reactive parenting and, instead, put in place an intentional process to help manage the moments of challenge. Whatever that may look like, to each individual household.
In the workplace, we assume that parents of younger children need the most support. However, as children age, the later-stage parenting demands have unique challenges that need to be considered to allow a mother or father to cope effectively.
97 percent of married-couple families with children, had at least one employed parent, and 63 percent had both parents employed. Among families maintained by fathers, 84 percent of fathers were employed in 2018, a greater share than the 74.1 percent of employed mothers in families maintained by mothers.

Creating equity within the workplace means empowering both men & women in their roles in and out of the office. Keeping women on track to their goals while, at the same time, allowing men to participate more fully in their family’s life means we must shift the cultural norms within the workplace.

Studies show that two thirds of working parents report feeling like a failure as a parent. This sense of failure shows up in the workplace too.

Alternatively, studies show that when the primary breadwinner has greater connections to their family, they are more productive in the workplace. Additionally, when dads are more engaged in their child’s life, they are happier and more productive employees.

CPC is skilled at crafting solutions that empower working parents to create a greater sense of accomplishment and belief in their own abilities. Understanding how organizations deal with the women and men behind these shared parenting & corporate roles can be the difference between success & failure within an organization.

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When a business helps to provide a sense of Integration between an employee’s personal and professional worlds, the payoff shows up in the bottom line.

CPC works with leadership teams instilling the VALUES and LESSONS that can be passed along to every level of team member in order to create a culture of inclusivity & community. CPC can also work with individual employees and provide tools that work to build their brain power and flex their soft skill muscle. When practiced, these skills- including mindfulness, resilience, relationship building and direct communication- will become habitual. We find ways to narrow the gender gap through the implementation of coaching methods that shift the cultural mindsets and constraints that keep women from advancing.

Not unlike the managerial Peter Principle, where we are promoted until the point of being ineffectual, parenting has a way of working until it doesn’t. CPC guides parents toward greater integration between their life in the office & at home. Self-taught systems don’t always keep up with the changing phases of children’s development. CPC supports your employee through those phases.

Let CPC lead your staff with parenting strategies that allow for knowledge and discovery; forging new habits for a preferred way of interacting.

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MANAGERS of WORKING PARENTS
Custom made or four hours
Determine goals of working parent program
Ways to support their needs
How to address needs without crossing boundaries
How to communicate as an effective leader for Working parents
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Assessment of strengths
Proven effective Leadership states
Mediation session with working parent
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TEAM of PARENT EMPLOYEES
Bi weekly year long series of support group
Supportive group honoring individualistic situations
Age appropriate group sharing resources.
Developmental milestones
Parenting tools shared
Understanding of developing brains
Designed to embolden confidence and intuitive parenting
Team building resources to strengthen trust
Resilience skills mastered
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Worksheets to enhance personal take a-ways
Practices to understand self as parent
Text communication
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PEOPLE OPERATIONS or HR SUPPORT PARTNERSHIP
Yearlong program in partnership to address all parenting issues
Develop comprehensive companywide strategy
Determine company family support culture
Pinpoint Areas of family focus that address biggest concern
Schedule small and large group workshops
Identify Speaker series
Identify programs with greatest employee satisfaction
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Emergent Mediation services
Emergency phone consultation
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INDIVIDUAL PARENT EMPLOYEE COACHING
12-24 one hour sessions for parents who are seeking extra support during transitional times, including Family leave, divorce, diagnoses, adoption, sleep, lactation, childcare, college
Support parent employees as working parents
Develop deeper understanding for goals
Inner desire listening skills
Traversing transitions with confidence
Recognition that new situations are stressful
Ways to manage stress so it doesn’t manage you
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Personal journey assessment
Emergency session availability
Text support
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