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Автор: Sue Campbell
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Driving the Point Home

       Having a baby changes the brain! Pregnancy and the postpartum period are associated with physiological and neurological restructuring changes for moms14 and dads.15

      Your Manager

      Your Human Resources Representative

      Ideally, your HR representative (or HR equivalent) would be helping you understand your organization's policies and practices on parental leave. A good HR representative can be a key partner in building your plan, providing a deeper understanding of how much time you may take off, how much pay you will receive while you are away (if any), and options for returning, such as a part-time or gradual return. Often, trying to make sense of convoluted federal, state, and local laws and company policies can be incredibly confusing. Even your HR department may be unclear. It is their job to aid your understanding, but I want you to be prepared to take the lead in case they don't provide adequate guidance.

      Becoming a working parent will also have practical implications. Your morning routines must be reworked and the end of the day will be about bath, bed, and feeding. As wonderful as the arrival of the new child will feel, it will be disorienting to be out of your regular routines and learning new responsibilities. When a new child arrives, a parent is born. Your new child is just beginning to learn about their environment. You, too, are getting to know the world again from a different perspective.

      Eventually, you will become less and less disoriented. You will return to work and reach a new normal where all things will start to fit into a more predictable pattern and routine. But finding a new normal takes time. Diving into the 10 touchpoints in these chapters will give you the tools (and help you recognize the ones you already have) to navigate this exciting time as it unfolds.

      Lead Your Leave

      Parental Leave Is Our Most Overlooked Leadership Development Opportunity

      There is one more role I want you to consider taking on—a leader. As you continue reading, you will see that leadership is a key theme throughout this book. I invite you to imagine that your transition to working parenthood is a leadership development and personal growth workshop or retreat that makes even the most prestigious leadership program offered to C-Suite executives pale in comparison. You have already paid for it and put it on your calendar (even if the dates aren't exactly fixed!).

      You can lead your leave by deepening your self-awareness as you navigate this major life transition. The exercises and processes you will find in the touchpoints throughout this book outline what to do in pragmatic terms. They go beyond practical matters, however, in digging into how to identify what matters to you and connect with your core values to guide you toward a more fully realized version of yourself.

      You'll find a leadership box at the end of each touchpoint chapter to help you recognize and apply some of the whole-person leadership skills on offer during your transition to parenthood.

      Your leave will be uniquely yours and shaped by your personality, situation, and beliefs. No matter what, you will learn and grow through this process. To the extent that you prepare yourself (practically and emotionally) and engage in the transition with a willingness to learn and lead, you will come out the other side stronger, wiser, and more connected to your life—at work and at home.

      1 1. Pew Research Center. (2017). Modern parenthood: Roles of moms and dads converge as they balance work and family [Report]. https://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2013/03/14/modern-parenthood-roles-of-moms-and-dads-converge-as-they-balance-work-and-family/

      2 2. S. Canilang, C. Duchan, K. Kreiss, et al. (2020). Report on the economic well-being of US households in 2019, featuring supplemental data from April 2020. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. https://www.federalreserve.gov/publications/files/2019-report-economic-well-being-us-households-202005.pdf

      3 3. Canilang, Duchan, Kreiss, et al., Report on the economic well-being of US households in 2019.

      4 4. Pew Research Center. (2019). Despite challenges at home and work, most working moms and dads say being employed is what's best for them [Report]. https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/09/12/despite-challenges-at-home-and-work-most-working-moms-and-dads-say-being-employed-is-whats-best-for-them/

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