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Keynote: It's the best time in history to be a dad
As part of The Father Hood’s workplace offering, we offer a range of presentations and facilitated discussions designed to give companies key insights about how the dads in your organisation are faring, while informing and inspiring them about on how to win at home and work. Central to this i
Facilitated Discussions and Staff Sessions
The Father Hood offers moderated dad/parent chat sessions for corporate partners, where experiences, frustrations and ideas are shared.
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How The Father Hood Can Help Your Workplace
The Father Hood exists to represent, inform and educate dads everywhere. In the process it aims to help employers better understand the rapidly changing needs and expectations of dads in their organisation in order to:
Attract the best dad talent. Parents have changing expectations of their employ
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The Fastest Road To 50/50
Until it’s unremarkable for a men to be equally involved in domestic life, it will remain remarkable for women to have equity in the workforce. This presentation gets to the heart of what stands in our way to achieving equity in the workplace – and it starts at home. Making fatherhood an equal
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TFH Presentation: Fatherhood 2.0
Being a dad is the most meaningful thing we’ve ever done and the hardest. It’s the highest of highs and the lowest of lows. And it’s particularly challenging right now. Parenting roles and expectations have changed forever. This creates huge challenges but also endless opportunities.
Don’t jus
Dadlife
What's The Deal with Parental Leave?
In this episode of The Father Hood Podcast we’re joined by Emma Walsh, CEO of Parents At Work, to talk all things parental leave for fathers. What are you entitled to from the Government? What benefits can your employer offer you?
We know that asking for paid parental leave at your workplace
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"Thrive in the Chaos": SAS Survival Tactics For Dads
With his shaven head and arms the size of ham hocks, Kevin Toonen looks like a very tough customer. This isn’t a case of appearances proving deceptive either.
During his 18 years in the military, Toonen not only served in the Australian Special Forces, he eventually wound up as their high-performanc
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Study: Dads Who Take Parental Leave May Delay Having More Kids
Dads who take parental leave are more likely to postpone having additional children, a study in Spain has found.
In March 2017, Spain introduced two weeks of fully paid parental leave for dads.
But a study published in the Journal of Public Economics suggested that, two years on, parents who took a
Workplace
Bespoke Content To Drive Organisational Cultural Change
Culture doesn’t change overnight. We regularly encounter companies that have overhauled their parental leave / flexibility policies in a laudable way, only to find that men don’t take advantage of the changes. Perhaps that’s not surprising either given how long the “breadwinner myth” has informed o
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Paid Parental Leave Equality: More Fulfilling Position Descriptions For All
I attended a Parental Leave Equality Roundtable discussion on behalf The Father Hood, led by Emma Walsh from Parents At Work. We heard about the huge disparity in availability and take-up of paid parental leave between women and men and how workplaces such as Medibank and Spotify are successfully ge
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This Is The Cure For Dad Guilt – Interview With Dr Vijay Roach
The concept of “dad guilt” might be relatively new, but the stats reveal it’s kicking in hard. Research shows that fathers increasingly worry about balancing their family duties with the grind of their working lives.
The Pew Research Centre in the US found that almost half (48 per cent) of working
Dadlife
Modern Dads Are Expanding What It Means To Be A Man & The Benefits Are Insane
“I do a lot of counselling work with men,” explains Aladdin Jones, a psychotherapist and community facilitator. “I recently spoke with a guy whose dad was a farmer who used to work flat-out seven days a week. ‘Oh yeah, I remember my dad played with me once,’ he said to me. ‘It was with a tractor at
Kids
Do It Like Obama: 5 Ways To Stop Your Job From Killing Your Dad Life
When Barack Obama became President of the United States, he made a decision. Every night, he would return to the White House to sit down at 6.30pm for dinner with his wife and daughters.
Obama declared those family dinners to be “sacrosanct”, refusing to miss them more than twice a week. “My
Dadlife
What's The Deal with Parental Leave?
In this episode of The Father Hood Podcast we’re joined by Emma Walsh, CEO of Parents At Work, to talk all things parental leave for fathers. What are you entitled to from the Government? What benefits can your employer offer you?
We know that asking for paid parental leave at your workplace
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