Welcoming Back Maternity Returners: 5 Conversation Kick-Starters
When members of your organisation are returning to work after a period of maternity leave, it can be both exciting and daunting for...
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Laura Duggal
Apr 105 min read
What are the risks of not offering coaching to new parents?
Parents, most often mothers, who take time off from paid employment to take care of their child(ren) face a variety of feelings as they...
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Laura Duggal
Apr 22 min read
After International Women’s Day – How to support female employees all year round
It’s important to celebrate the achievements and contributions of women in the workforce and beyond, but true progress requires ongoing...
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Dec 13, 20232 min read
Goal setting and career planning when returning to work after maternity leave
In this video we share a few questions and activities that we use with our clients to support them during this time in their career....
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Dec 6, 20233 min read
A guide to facilitating a conversation with a colleague as they return to work
Welcoming back a team member after maternity, shared parental or paternity leave is a pivotal moment, with the potential for uncertainty....
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Nov 29, 20233 min read
Is it possible to have a career after having a baby?
Becoming a parent is a life-altering experience, it can bring immense joy, and it can also bring a myriad of challenges. One common...
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Nov 22, 20232 min read
What does having a baby mean for my career?
In this video we talk about what having a baby means for your career. The answer to this will be completely different for everybody. To...
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Nov 15, 20233 min read
How maternity coaching differs from leadership or executive coaching
Maternity return coaching is a specialist and relatively new form of coaching. It plays an important role in supporting those...
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Nov 8, 20234 min read
Parental transition coaching – why it is unique
Parental transition coaching – coaching that takes place around the time of becoming a parent, is a particular kind of coaching. It takes...
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Oct 25, 20232 min read
Do you need to be a parent to be a maternity coach?
Usually, as a coach, it is not necessary to have a shared experience with your client because our role is not to provide advice and...
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Oct 23, 20233 min read
Coaching women in the workplace during the menopause
Menopausal women are the fastest growing workforce demographic. We are an ageing population; one in three of the workforce will soon be...
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Oct 11, 20233 min read
What can I use my maternity return coaching sessions for?
If you’ve been offered coaching by your organisation, and you’ve not worked with a coach before, you might be finding it tricky to know...
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Oct 4, 20233 min read
5 arguments for offering maternity return coaching in organisations
This video is aimed at you if you are an HR director or work in an HR team and have been tasked with putting something together to...
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Sep 27, 20233 min read
How to build an organisational business case for return-to-work coaching
In this uncertain world, organisations that thrive are those that are agile and able to adapt to their changing context. This demands a...
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Sep 13, 20233 min read
Building a proposal for return to work coaching? Here are some key statistics & benefits to include
More and more we’re being approached by those returning to work, who want access to return to work coaching and are asked by their Line...
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Sep 6, 20234 min read
3 tips for tackling the Mental Load of Motherhood, that don’t require any more thinking!
If you’re about to return to work after having a child, now, more than ever, you might be feeling the weight of the mental load. If...
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Jul 19, 20235 min read
Saying no and setting boundaries
As a working parent, managing the multiple demands that you face on a daily basis can be overwhelming and, frankly, exhausting. The sheer...
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Jul 12, 20233 min read
How to ask for help
The irony is not lost on me that as I write this blog I’m simultaneously thinking about: My daughters swimming kit for school Birthday...
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Jul 5, 20233 min read
An exercise to help you manage guilt
Guilt by definition is as “feeling of deserving blame especially for imagined offenses or from a sense of inadequacy”. Although these...
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Jun 28, 20233 min read
6 ways to stay visible and progress in your career after children
According to a 2022 survey carried out by ‘That Works for Me’, 98% of mothers want to work, and we would agree with this statistic. One...
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