How to Upskill Your Maternity Coaches
How can you improve your new dads’ experience at work?
New dads can really struggle to navigate paternity leave, pay and societal pressures.
There is a much greater understanding about how to support new mums rather than new dads in the workplace. In a large part because more women take maternity leave and, crucially, when they do, they take more leave, triggering much greater provision of coaching and mentoring support.
Last week I delivered a 2-hour workshop for a group of female coachees from The Maternity Coach Ltd
The session was called “Fatherhood and the Parental Transition - Tips for Coaching Working Dads”
During our time together we explored ideas about the milestones on “The Dad Journey”, what type of practical and emotional challenges male coachees might experience, and how this was similar or different to the maternity experience.
It’s a valuable session for anyone seeking to improve understanding and effective delivery of maternity OR paternity coaching, whether as part of internal coaching and mentoring teams or specialist deliverers of parental transition support.
Because even if you are only coaching mums, frequently those mums will be in a relationship with a man who is facing many of the unique challenges of fatherhood.
I was delighted that the session (which can also be a 1 hour workshop) landed so well:
⭐ This has been really great, very insightful! Thank you!
⭐ I found it really interesting and helpful. Looking forward to receiving the resources
⭐ Thank you, Ian, for the helpful and supportive content!
⭐ You gave me lots to think about; particularly about the breadth of different 'types of Dads there are from the 'F***-it Fathers' to the old-school, hands-off trad fathers and the different coaching conversations they might benefit from.
⭐ Thanks so much for a fantastic session. I really enjoyed it, found it gave me helpful insights and also reassured me that there are also some overlaps with the support I provide to women.
PS Yes we absolutely did talk about Dr Jasmine Kelland’s F*** It Fathers…
PPS coaching support is just part of the options for supporting new parents at work.
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