Rock and a hard place? Feeling the crush of project delivery, commercial development, people leadership and caring for your kids? We get it: loving both your career and your children can feel like a collision course to burn-out.
Georgie Rudd, an ICF accredited executive coach, has coached hundreds of brilliant leaders who have the equally demanding job of parenting. In this warm and authentic guide she brings the power of executive coaching to anyone who needs it:
practical, easy-to-use diagnostic tools
deep, pragmatic understanding of the real world of corporate work
honest case studies highlighting what everyone finds hard and what to do about it.
The Working Parent Equation enables working parents to get clear on what success looks like for their personal equation and how to take action to achieve it, sustainably.
Whether you're making the pivotal return to work or your challenging teen is making you doubt yourself, whether you're talking yourself out of a promotion you really want to pursue or you're trying to protect your non-negotiables at home, this book has your back.
Foreword
Preface
Introduction
PART 1: Redefining Success
CHAPTER 1: A new era: BC to AC
CHAPTER 2: Why bother?
CHAPTER 3: You are the instrument of your success
CHAPTER 4: Guilt, the mental load and letting go
PART 2: Prioritisation: Giant Jenga For Professionals
CHAPTER 5: Balancing priorities
CHAPTER 6: ‘Yes’ and ‘No’: two sides of the same coin
CHAPTER 7: Non-negotiables
PART 3: Choosing Who To Listen To
CHAPTER 8: Noisy voices: the myth of perfection
CHAPTER 9: Thinking traps and how to climb out of them
CHAPTER 10: The inner critic: friend not foe
CHAPTER 11: Sticky systems: sorting out what you need to leave behind
PART 4: Resourcing for Success….your way
CHAPTER 12: A historian, a scientist and a journalist: liberation through evidence testing
CHAPTER 13: Map it out: 3D maps to get you moving
CHAPTER 14: All the feelings: integrating emotion to serve you well
CHAPTER 15: Career smarts: recruiting your own Career Board
CHAPTER 16: Resourcing yourself: running the long race
Acknowledgements
About the Author
Bibliography
Index
Height:216
Width:140
Spine:19
Weight:364.00