Career decisions, household responsibilities and time management can all become more complicated when you're raising a family.
The Working Parenthood guides help you approach these challenges with greater clarity.
Through practical models, relatable case studies and downloadable tools, you'll learn to understand your circumstances, explore your options and make decisions that work for you.
Choose one guide or explore the complete collection.
Three frameworks. One connected approach to working parenthood.
Explore how your household operates, how you develop your careers and how you allocate your time.
Includes The Family Framework, The Career Framework and The Time Framework.
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Two guides for two closely connected parts of life. Develop a deliberate strategy for your professional future while making more conscious decisions about your time. Includes The Career Framework and The Time Framework, with the Time Diary workbook.
Make family life work better for everyone involved.
Understand how your household operates, make responsibilities visible and build practical arrangements for managing two careers, childcare and everyday family life.
Build your career without losing sight of your family.
Define your professional direction, evaluate opportunities and develop a career strategy that considers both your ambitions and your family's circumstances.
Make more deliberate decisions about your time.
Use a practical guide and Excel time diary to understand how you spend your week, identify patterns and make room for what matters to you.
A household with two working parents and small children is a surprisingly complex operation.
There are careers to coordinate, children to care for, responsibilities to share and a seemingly endless number of decisions to make. And often, much of that operation exists inside one person's head.
The Family Framework helps you step back and look at how your household actually works.
You'll examine the priorities guiding your decisions, challenge assumptions about who should do what and make the responsibilities that keep your family running visible.
You'll also learn to identify recurring pressure points, consider where additional support could make a difference and build clearer arrangements for ownership and flexibility.
The objective isn't to create a perfectly organised household or eliminate the unpredictability of raising children.
It's to build a family life that works for the people involved — without depending on everyone functioning perfectly all the time.
Get clear on your family's priorities, responsibilities and existing arrangements.
Find recurring pressures, hidden assumptions and areas where the current system is creating unnecessary difficulty.
Make deliberate decisions about responsibilities, resources, support and flexibility.
Create an approach you can revisit and adjust as your children, careers and circumstances change.
Two careers. Small children. Limited time. Different ambitions. And opportunities that don't necessarily arrive at convenient moments.
How do you keep developing professionally while making sure your family life works?
The Career Framework helps you approach career development as a deliberate, medium-term strategy rather than a series of isolated decisions.
You'll examine where both careers currently stand, define what each person wants to build professionally and identify the experience, skills and opportunities that could help you move in that direction.
You'll also explore how to allocate the family's limited capacity between two careers, recognising that both partners don't necessarily need to accelerate at exactly the same time.
The framework then helps you evaluate individual opportunities — such as a promotion, career change or demanding new role — against your longer-term ambitions and the practical consequences for your household.
The aim isn't to tell you how ambitious you should be. It's to help you build a career strategy you can stand behind, knowing what you're working towards and why.
Move beyond your next job title and establish what you want your career to look like over the coming years.
Identify the experiences, skills, visibility and relationships that could help you progress towards your goals.
Understand what your family can realistically support and how both partners can continue developing professionally across different stages of family life.
Consider the professional upside, family implications and timing of individual career decisions.
Bring your ambitions and practical decisions together into a career plan that reflects your circumstances.
“I don't have enough time.”
It's something working parents say regularly, and often for very good reasons.
But before we can make meaningful changes to our schedules, we need to understand what our days actually contain.
The Time Framework takes a data-led approach to time management.
Rather than beginning with productivity hacks or another attempt to squeeze more into an already full week, it starts with observation.
Using the accompanying Excel time diary, you'll map your activities over one or two weeks and explore how your time is distributed across work, family relationships, personal activities, everyday responsibilities and sleep.
The workbook helps you turn that information into a clearer picture of your time allocation.
From there, the guide helps you interpret the patterns and consider whether the way you're currently using your time reflects your priorities and circumstances.
You might discover activities that can be delegated, responsibilities that could be shared differently, or opportunities to rearrange your schedule.
Or you might realise that what you need isn't greater efficiency. It's permission to allocate some of your time differently.
Because time management isn't about fitting the maximum number of activities into your week. It's about making room for the things that matter.
Use the Excel time diary to record your activities over one or two weeks.
Explore how your time is distributed across work, relationships, personal activities, household responsibilities and sleep.
Look beyond individual busy days and examine the recurring activities and arrangements that shape your week.
Consider where your time allocation could be adjusted to better reflect your priorities and needs.
Explore how one-to-one mentoring can help you navigate your own circumstances.
