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Managing Your Career
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Introduction: The Same, but Completely Different
Section 1: Oh, the Places You’ll Go!: Take Stock and Set Your Vision
1. How to Build a Meaningful Career
2. Work + Home + Community + Self
Section 2: Be All Ears: Get Feedback
3. Get the Feedback You Need
4. The Family 360 Review
Section 3: Choose Your Own Adventure: Set Goals and Make Career Choices
5. Increase the Odds of Achieving Your Goals by Setting Them with Your Family
6. Flex Work, Part-Time, and Laterals, Oh My!
7. Winning Support for Flexible Work
8. Make Part-Time Work for You
9. How to Decide Whether to Relocate for a Job
Section 4: Without GPS: Navigate on and off the Career Ramp
10. When You’re Leaving Your Job Because of Your Kids
11. Ramp Up Your Career After Parental Leave
Section 5: All in the Family: Manage Relationships
12. Bring All of Your Identities to Work
13. How Dual-Career Couples Make It Work
14. Being a Two-Career Couple Requires a Long-Term Plan
15. A Guide to Balancing Eldercare and Career
Section 6: Don’t Go It Alone: Get Support
16. Working Parents Need a “Parenting Posse”
17. Create Your Own Personal Board of Directors
18. Making Time for Networking as a Working Parent
Epilogue: To Infinity, and Beyond!
19. What I Learned About Working Parenthood After My Kids Grew Up
Notes
About the Contributors
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Getting It All Done
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Introduction: Getting to “All Done”
Section 1: Strategy for Supper: Bring Your Work Skills Home
1. To Have a Happier Home Life, Treat It a Little More Like Work
2. The Agile Family Meeting
3. Sync Up Your Family Calendars
4. Negotiating with Your Kids
5. Assemble Your “Parenting Posse”
Section 2: Say No to Doing Everything: Put Your Real Priorities First
6. Does Your Schedule Reflect Your Values?
7. Let Go of the Idea of Balance
8. How to Spend Your Parenting Time and Energy Wisely
9. “Delegating with Joy”
10. Too Much to Do? Here’s How to Ask for Help
11. How to Say No to Taking on More
Section 3: Getting It All (Mostly) Done: Productivity Tips and Hacks You Need
12. Working from Home When You Have Kids
13. You Can Make Family Meals Happen
14. Getting Things Done While Locked Down with Your Kids
15. How Working Parents Can Manage the Demands of School-Age Kids
16. Stop Feeling Guilty About Your To-Do List
Section 4: You Can’t Be in Two Places at Once: Deal with Tough Work-Family Conflicts
17. Winning Support for Flexible Work
18. How to Handle Work When Your Child Is Sick
19. What to Do When Personal and Professional Commitments Compete for Your Time
20. Keep Your Home Life Sane When Work Gets Crazy
21. Managing Work During a Family Crisis
Epilogue: You’ve Got This
22.Parenting Is Making You a Better Leader
Notes
About the Contributors
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Taking Care of Yourself
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Introduction: Self-Care and the Working Parent
Section 1: Give Yourself a Time-Out: Look at How You Spend Your Time
1. Give Yourself Permission to Recharge
2. Working Dads Need “Me Time,” Too
3. Does Your Schedule Reflect Your Values?
4. Six Ways to Weave Self-Care into Your Workday
5. Do More by Doing Less (at Home and at Work)
Section 2: Learn to Talk: Communicate Your Needs
6. Four Conversations Every Overwhelmed Working Parent Should Have
7. What’s a Working Dad to Do?
8. How to Communicate Your Self-Care Needs to Your Partner
9. Too Much to Do? Here’s How to Ask for Help
Section 3: Deep Breaths: Check Your Mental and Emotional Health
10. Stop Feeling Guilty About What You Can’t Get Done
11. How to Refuel When You’re Feeling Emotionally Drained
12. Let Go of Perfectionism
13. How Busy Working Parents Can Make Time for Mindfulness
Section 4: Time for Your Checkup: Prioritize Physical Well-Being
14. How Regular Exercise Helps You Balance Work and Family
15. Find Exercise in Life’s Margins
16. How Working Parents Can Prioritize Sleep
17. Parents, Take Your Sick Days
Section 5: Recess: Make Your Time Off Matter
18. The Case for Having Hobbies
19. Make Friendships a Part of Your Routine
20. How to Get the Most Out of a Day Off
21. Get in the Right State of Mind for Vacation
Epilogue: Try It, You Might Like It
22. It’s Not Selfish to Take Care of Yourself
Notes
About the Contributors
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