Leaders at Home
Parenting is leadership too. With endless opportunity to practice.
One fact about working as a Professional it is requires individuals to be sharp and have capacity in the mind, to solve new problems, to focus, to keep things simple, to adapt to changing priorities, to name a few.
Another fact is that family-life and work-life has blended more than ever, creating challenges related to stress and engagement, particularly for parents.
Many companies help parents manage stress by offering flextime, or personal days, which is helpful but is a temporary fix to the problem, as it doesn’t help reduce the mental burden. In other words, we need to think about work-life balance in a new way.
