But when an employee takes an extended leave of absence, the stakes are high for everyone.
Parents can feel overwhelmed both before and after their parental leave. They struggle to create strong coverage plans, miss out on key business milestones, and oftentimes aren't sure how to navigate the personal and professional challenges in the return-to-work transition.
Managers, direct reports and peer employees can face confusion about how to support the parent’s unique needs while delivering on their own goals.
Employers become concerned both about short-term business results being delivered as well as broader retention of top talent.
With proper support and guidance, the experience of parental leave can result in:
Every Parentaly program has been designed to expertly combine coaching and content, leveraging our expertise and the best practices of hundreds of new parents.
Our bite-sized planning modules and templates have been infused with the experiences, desires, and feedback of hundreds of working parents. They include prompts for transfer of work before leave, and onboarding reminders upon return to work.
Our highly vetted career coaches serve as accountability partners and supporters to expectant parents, ensuring employees are sticking to their plans, committing to goals, and navigating obstacles or curveballs.
We've worked with expecting parents from companies including:
Improve your business results, up-level junior talent, and redefine roles, responsibilities and goals
Reduce attrition after parental leave, and attract top talent who want to work for a company that truly supports working parents
"Parentaly gave me confidence in navigating a space that was unfamiliar and even intimidating. The right combination of resource offerings empowered me to better prepare (tactically and emotionally!) for parental leave. I achieved a sense of calm I am sure would not be possible without this program."
Work with your coach to define your personal career growth goals - and translate your goals into concrete plans
Leverage our extensive resources to access best practices, planning templates, content and community
"I canβt tell you how much I appreciated Parentaly. Based on my leave planning, I became the de facto parental leave expert at my company. Before I left I had six expecting moms from across the organization put time on my calendar to help them with leave planning, and my leave plan was circulated widely as a model for others"
"The combination of executive coaching, educational materials, and guided leave-planning are intended to solve a suite of problems: lack of communication, business disruption, and incorrect assumptions about flexibility or decreased responsibility that women may or may not want when they get back to work."
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