The talk has been supported by numerous Henley MBA and executive students. It provides techniques that can help busy parents become more effective, more connected and more fun-to-be-around.
Bush says most of the face-to-face communication that busy parents have with their children is often spent telling them what to do, chasing them to get dressed, eat, do their homework, bath and get to bed.
“Children don’t really mind whether you are working or busy, as long as they get more of your happiness and less of your stress when you are with them. They want more face-to-face time which can be a real challenge unless you invite them in to do normal every day stuff together,” she says.
Spending dinner time together as a family is the perfect time to acknowledge each other, face-to-face. Discussing the day’s events and challenges, always with a positive angle and how a particular problem was solved, helps children work through their own challenges and learn from each other.
She also has answers for every parent's most testing modern challenge: obsession with iPads, phones and social media. She has written a book entitled 'Tech Savvy Parenting' in response.
Jon Foster-Pedley, dean of Henley Africa, said the Family Friendly series has helped many of Henley’s MBA and executive education students and staff with family life and parenting and has provided positive feedback from applying the principles.
“As a parent of young children myself, I have learned that these principles work in any family and will contribute to making our students’ studies more inclusive rather than exclusive of the family."
About Henley
In the recent 16th edition of the Financial Times (FT) annual ranking of the world’s top 100 executive MBA programmes for senior working managers, Henley Business School UK was ranked the most gender-balanced faculty body worldwide with 47% women compared to the survey average of 28%. Henley achieved 47th position overall.
Henley Business School also maintained its strong standing as one of the world’s top 30 business schools in the October 2016 Economist world ranking of full-time MBA programmes, achieving 27th position overall, and first place in two key categories.
Henley achieved first position in the survey’s “Potential to Network” and “Breadth of the Alumni Network” categories and third position in the “Percentage who found jobs through the careers service” category. Henley also attained fifth position in “Student Quality” and 10th position worldwide in “Personal development and educational experience”.
In the prestigious 2016 UK Financial Times annual international global survey of business school executive education programmes, Henley Business School Africa has achieved the highest ranking for any business school accredited in Africa.
The survey included all the international executive education operations of Henley in Hong Kong, Malaysia, Germany and Africa of which South Africa was the largest by far. The South African results made a significant contribution towards the raising of the total ranking. Henley was ranked 20th overall in the world, up nine places from 29th in 2015 and achieved third position in the UK.
Categories evaluated covered course design, aims achieved, teaching methods and materials, faculty quality, and new skills and learning. Henley was also in the top 20 worldwide for repeat business and growth based on its Fortune 500 clients returning year on year,
Henley Business School was the first business school to be established in Europe, in 1946, and has since built a pedigree of outstanding education for business and the public sector, recognised worldwide in international rankings, in accreditation, for its quality of students and breadth of alumni.
We build the people who build the businesses that build Africa, and our alumni work in senior positions in government, industry, media, business schools and NGOs. We are part of the University of Reading, ranked as one of the world's top 1% universities, and one of the global top 200 for research. Although steeped in science with over 17 research centres, we believe business is more than science and requires confident, engaged managers and leaders who can create and deliver outstanding value through their organisations and so build a better, prosperous Africa
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