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Make sure your employee goes on parental leave feeling seen, respected and happy to be back when the time comes.
- Stay in touch – keep contact in an easy way without disturbing. Get a chance to understand and meet individual needs during parental leave. Save time and effort using one single channel for contact.
- Grow talent – parental leave is time for (often) unconscious talent growth. Make sure you reap the benefits from competencies developed during your employees’ family time at home. Use the FamSmart Competence Profile at reboarding and coaching after leave.
- Retain talent – Parental leave is a crucial time in a person’s life and career. Make sure your employees are engaged and included throughout their leave, so they feel motivated to return afterwards. Save time and effort avoiding replacement recruitment.
The FamSmart Platform helps you:
- Get a planning structure for offboarding employees before parental leave.
- Stay in touch and follow up during leave, in a simple way without disturbing.
- Follow your employee’s natural development during their leave, without pressure to perform.
- Make sure your employees on parental leave return, with confidence and motivation.
- Welcome reboarding parents back after leave in a good way.
- Build your leadership skills with inspiration and tools for coaching and motivation.
Growth through group sessions and individual reflection
- Each user is invited to monthly digital meetings for parents on and after leave, moderated by coaches with expertise in competence and career development.
- The group sessions and individual reflection on the platform provide insights about how parenting develops important skills that also give value and advantages in the workplace.
- Qualities such as empathy, creativity, trust, and efficiency are measured and exemplified in concrete and inspiring ways.
- The progress can be tracked in the interface, adding value for both employees and managers when parents return after their leave.
FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
A benefit for employed parents. An easily accessible application for employees on parental leave to stay in touch with the closest manager on their own terms. A tool for self-reflection and personal growth before, during and after leave.
Helps managers and employees stay in touch on the employees’ terms. Easy way to meet individual needs and discover how family skills naturally grow at home, and can be of value at work later. Did you ever learn parenthood is the best leadership training you can get? We think so, too.
The platform is built with the intention of being on the employees’ terms, meaning THEY will get started and log on when the timing is right for them. The platform is introduced by managers before the leave, as a voluntary option and benefit. It gives managers and HR a channel to understand and meet needs during leave and share the most important company news, without the parent having to log into the intranet or e-mail during their time away.
As a new parent it is common to experience a rollercoaster of emotions. Professionals on parental leave often appreciate the pause from work, but some unfortunately feel left outside and excluded more than they wish. They wonder what might happen to their professional development while they are away. Some have fears and doubts about going back to work. We want to fix this, but with no pressure to perform during leave.
You CAN have it all – both enjoy the pause and stay in touch a bit. On your terms, through the FamSmart app instead of having to access your e-mail or intranet.
Our tool gives you the time and space to identify the learnings you will do as you naturally grow into your new role as a caregiver. Transferable skills that you will be able to bring to the table once you are back at work.
The upside for the employer is strengthened inclusion, engagement and retention. Employees who feel seen and valued during their parental leave will more likely return and contribute instead of seeking better luck with another employer. Retaining talent can save you up to an annual salary (the average cost of replacement recruitment).
Also, parental leave sends your employee on a learning journey free of charge. This kind of development should not be neglected. Instead, make sure you as the employer gain from your more mature, skilled and professional employee.
To be family smart is a way to add proof points differentiating your employer value proposition (EVP) showing how you offer an inclusive, gender equal and sustainable workplace in practice, connecting to Agenda2030.
In brief: Higher retention. Inclusion. Upskilling. Personal development. Leadership support. Time saving. An informal and voluntary contact channel. A tool for engagement. We can go on forever.
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Transferable skills are the skills that can be used in several areas and in every job, no matter the title or the field. Some are hard skills, like coding or other technical skills, and some are soft skills like communication and relationship building.
Let us have a look on a few of these competencies. Think about each of them and reflect on how you have recently faced any of them yourself. Next step: how do you think you will find them useful back at work? Do they connect to the leadership and self leadership you wish to have yourself and among your managers and employees? And your organization, your customers and owners – could they benefit from these competencies (or others developed in the private space)?
- Prioritization and delegation
- Situational leadership
- Organizational skills and effectiveness
- Empathy and compassion
- Goal orientation and problem solving
- Perspective in life
- Thinking outside the box
- Mindfulness
- Communication and conflict resolution
- Setting boundaries – for others and yourself
- Patience and trust
- Social competence
- Self-esteem
With the FamSmart platform you get the tools to reflect on and build your individual family smart competence profile with these skills developed at home. There are many other examples too.
The continuously growing Family Smart Competence Profile makes it clear and easy for the employee and manager to discuss before reboarding how family skills may add value at work as well, and how to make the best use of it in the current or a new role when going back to work.