Manager Workshops: Managing Maternity

Training Line Managers and HR to handle maternity in an emotionally competent manner is critical to retaining talented women. We provide a workshop for Line Managers and HR professionals managing women through maternity or adoption transitions.

The average cost of employee turnover ranges from £6,125 to £9,000 for senior managers or directors*. You can make huge savings by helping your managers retain the best working mothers.

Benefits of a Managing Maternity Workshop

• Train up to 12 participants in one workshop
• Encourage innovation, debate and sharing of best practice to develop the most effective solutions
• A choice of half or full day workshops
• Workshops are highly interactive, encouraging each participant to pro-actively engage with the programme and its contents
• Each workshop agenda can be bespoke to the organisation's needs
• The workshops can be provided in conjunction with 1:1 Maternity & Childcare Coaching or alongside other maternity workshops.

What we cover in the workshop

• Introduce the key stages of maternity both from an emotional and practical perspective
• Inform on the formal policies and procedures of the maternity transition
• Put in context the perspective of each stakeholder (the manager, the leaver, the team at large, clients, suppliers, etc) throughout the maternity journey
• Balancing stakeholders' interests
• Common assumptions when managing maternity and how to clarify them
• How to seek dialog in an emotionally charged context
• Explore why women may decide to stay or leave and how to impact positively the decision process
• How to best engage a leaver upon return
• Pros and cons of flexible work: is there a business case?
• Develop a personal roadmap for handling maternity.

Why use My Family Care?

• We're the only provider in the UK of both practical and emotional family friendly employee benefits
• Our trainers have the experience of senior leadership positions and handling maternity
• We talk to working parents on a daily basis and use this inter-action to build programmes that specifically address their challenges and concerns
• We support the needs of a manager's team by being able to advise employees on childcare solutions that fit in with their career choices thereby facilitating a smooth transition back into the workplace
• We also help employees organise emergency childcare cover in case of breakdowns of existing arrangements (for example when a child going to nursery is ill, when school-going kids have to stay at home) or during school holidays.

Pricing

We strive to keep the most competitive prices. Call us to review the best programme and price to suit the needs of you and your employees.