Virtual Lab: Parenting & COVID-19

Parenting & COVID-19
Many working parents today are home with children while trying to stay on top of their own job responsibilities. Most days we manage to do it with grace and a smile on our faces, but the reality is that many working parents are drowning. They feel like they are failing as parents. They're spending little to no time on self-care. And some are simply leaving the workforce - no longer able to keep up with that superwoman identity that has been thrust upon us.

In this lab, you will learn:

• - How unconscious bias impacts working parents - especially mothers - before and during COVID-19
• - Strategies for navigating virtual work, homeschooling and child care
• - How managers can support teams - and themselves - during this period of virtual work

Thank you to our facilitators: 

Lisa Bower, President & CEO, Plus One Meetings, Inc. consults with employers to identify the concerns and needs of working parents and implements solutions including travel childcare programs, mobile nursing suites and virtual engagement strategies. Lisa supports her clients with the following partners: 

Dr. Pam McCaskill, Ph.D., Owner and Managing Director of an individual, family and group therapy center in Southeast Michigan. Dr. McCaskill specializes in Parent Training and Child Behavior Modification having developed and implemented hundreds of empirically-based training programs for the community and large organizations via Telehealth services.

Ellen Patnaude, Master Facilitator and certified Executive Coach. Ellen works with managers challenged by overseeing teams during COVID, using her 20+ years of experience to help them sharpen their communications skills and enhance their results in their work and personal lives. 

About Inforum Virtual Labs
Inforum Virtual Labs are online, interactive and skills-based events that bring real-world perspective from a practitioner with deep expertise in a particular field or subject. The labs are designed with top-notch instruction, and selected to complement leadership development at different stages of careers. Participants will walk away with new information and a concrete personal action plan that carries the learning into workplace practice.