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Returning to work after a prolonged absence? We can provide the right support and expertise to make your return work for you.

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Supporting you to support your people

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With our input, your people programme will be a real internal and external head-turner…

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You play a vital role in helping career-breakers in your team make a smooth, effective and happy return to work. Here’s how we can support you.

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🙃 Whilst Boris Johnson is barely surviving “B

🙃 Whilst Boris Johnson is barely surviving “Boris on the brink”, Jessica’s writing about thriving for a client workshop on how to get the professional/personal life balance right when you become a Partner.⁣
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🙋‍♀️ Your tips for making family life happy and calm when you make a big step up at work?⁣
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#workingparenthood #careerdevelopment #accountant #careerprogression

🤕⁉️ Did you know we coach people coming bac

🤕⁉️ Did you know we coach people coming back from sick leave? Bea is one of them.⁣
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👉 Jessica coached Bea during the time she was phasing back into work after a car accident in Silicon Valley that caused an aneurysm, six mini strokes, severe concussion, internal injuries, loss of short-term memory and various cognitive impairments.⁣
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💪She was out of the business for about a year and despite all predictions she made a full recovery which was twice as fast as those with similar injuries.⁣
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🎙 Bea talks about her experience of returning to work from sick leave on episode 34 of our podcast COMEBACK COACH.⁣
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🙏This is seriously inspiring stuff! Big thanks to Rayden Solicitors @rayden_solicitors for sponsoring this third season (and every episode up to this point 😊)⁣
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👉BTW free event 👉 if you’ve got colleagues who are on sick leave, our next Comeback ⁣
Conversation Q&A is HOW TO GO GENTLY AND MAKE A SUSTAINABLE RETURN TO WORK AFTER SICK ⁣
LEAVE. ⁣
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We have two guests with lived experience of returning from breast cancer (Amanda Newman from Accenture) and very severe ⁣mental ill health (HR Director, Lucy Dodd). TUESDAY 28TH JUNE 8-8.45pm BST.⁣
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#comebackcoach #returntowork #podcast #illhealth #returningtowork #femaleleader ⁣⁣
#comebackcoaching #employeeexperience

👨‍👧Here at The Talent Keeper Specialists w

👨‍👧Here at The Talent Keeper Specialists we've been coaching men making a comeback from shared parental leave (SPL) for five years. ⁣
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👍Our clients are also increasingly recognising the transition to working fatherhood as one that benefits from coaching support, irrespective of whether individuals have been away (on SPL) for an ⁣
extended period. ⁣
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⚖️ One such is Kilburn & Strode LLP and you can listen to Partner Gregory St Clair Jones on the value of his coaching time with my colleague Ian in a 2 minute film over at www.talentkeepers.co.uk > Who ⁣We Support > Returning Colleague.⁣
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🎙Coming up on the podcast this week is father of four, Chris Ashton-Holt, a Director on EY on making his return to work from Shared Parental Leave. Episode 36 with Chris is out Wednesday 22nd June. ⁣
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🎧 Listen on Spotify, Apple, Google and our website.⁣
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#happyfathersday #sharedparentalleave #fatherhood #newdaddy #newfather

🥂📒 And so our 10th birthday celebration plan

🥂📒 And so our 10th birthday celebration planning begins…inauspiciously! Our founder Jessica Chivers @jhchivers takes to a park bench with her notebook, a cup of tea and a pain au raisin. We can’t wait to bring clients, coachees, podcast guests, our partners and the team together to mark our first decade this autumn. Invitations to follow. #celebration #femaleentrepreneur #executivecoaching

🤕 🧠 In 2019 mental health conditions in the

🤕 🧠 In 2019 mental health conditions in the UK accounted for 7% of all ill health (research by David McDaid and A-la Park from the London School of Economics Care Policy and Evaluation Centre @lse.economics). This amounts to 5% of GDP mainly due to lost productivity and the costs of unpaid informal carers.⁣
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Please join us and two very special guests for a Q&A on HOW TO HELP EMPLOYEES HAVE A GENTLE AND SUSTAINABLE RETURN TO WORK FROM SICK LEAVE on Tuesday 28th June 8-8.45pm BST.⁣
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👉 DM US FOR FREE TICKETS or search for “Comeback Conversations” on Eventbrite.⁣
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The session is a 45 live Q&A (you submit your Qs when you book a FREE ticket) for:⁣
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👍 People on sick leave⁣
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👍 People who have recently returned from sick leave⁣
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👍 HR professionals⁣
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👍 Line managers of team members on sick leave⁣
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👍 Compassionate colleagues of team-mates with ill health⁣
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⭐️ ❤️‍🩹 Lucy Dodd is an experienced, compassionate HR Director who suffered a mental breakdown in 2017 after years of relentlessly pushing herself up the career ladder as a single parent. ⁣
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Following the culmination of long hours, regularly being away from home and lack of line manager support resulted in self-harm being a coping mechanism. Spiralling downwards she spent a period of time at ⁣
The Priory before slowly recovering over a number of months. Lucy recognises the difficulties of being forced to take 'time out' and also what it means to return to the workplace as a new person.⁣
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⭐️ ❤️‍🩹 Amanda Newman is an amazing advocate of women in technology and a year ago last month, was shocked to discover she had breast cancer. After having a mastectomy and reconstruction, then adjusting to medication to prevent the cancer from returning, Amanda has gone back to work. She will share her story of how that’s been as a senior woman in Tech.⁣
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Amanda @amanda_the_career_mum is a mum of four, including six year old twins and you might have heard her on our podcast, COMEBACK COACH episode 21. She’s worked full time for most of her 25 year career that spanned Shell, Microsoft and now Accenture.⁣
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#returningtowork #employeeexperience #sickleave #compassionateleaders #hr #illhealth #breastcancer #cancer

🤰Christina is a senior civil servant in HM Trea

🤰Christina is a senior civil servant in HM Treasury who’s preparing for her third maternity leave.⁣
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💬 She had a coaching session with Jessica Chivers to help her prepare for leave and you can listen in on episode 33 of our podcast, COMEBACK COACH.⁣
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👉 THREE TIPS FOR PREPARING FOR LEAVE:⁣
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👍 - Nourish your network before you go on leave. Have conversations with people you think will be important to you when you return to work, before you go.⁣
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👍 - If you want to make a change of direction when you return to work, think what you can do before you go to set yourself up for an easier ride later on.⁣
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👍 - Need to grow your network in a particular area of your organisation where you have few ⁣
connections? Ask your peers who they know and make it easy for them to introduce you by drafting the e-mail they can send on to make that intro’.⁣
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🙏 BIG THANKS to out season three sponsor, the award-winning family law firm, Rayden Solicitors. We are so pleased to have you with us.⁣
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#comebackcoach #maternityleave #comebackcoaching #careerdevelopment #femaleleader ⁣
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👊👊 CLIENT SPOTLIGHT: All credit to the brill

👊👊 CLIENT SPOTLIGHT: All credit to the brilliant People team @barton_willmore for the terrific ‘nurturing female talent’ day they put on last week at the most awesome (secret) venue. Our founder Jessica Chivers, was delighted to MC the day. Top job everyone! #employeeengagement #employeeexperience #offsite #awayday #femaletalent #leadership #hr

🎥 ITN reporter Sally Williams @sallyweather is

🎥 ITN reporter Sally Williams @sallyweather is blooming honest about her return to work from a 5 year career break in the latest episode of COMEBACK COACH. ⁣
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🎧 It’s episode 32 and you’ll find it on Apple, Spotify, Google and our websites (www.comebackcommunity.co.uk and www.talentkeepers.co.uk).⁣⁣
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Jessica talks to Sally about:⁣⁣
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- ⭐️ Not beating yourself up when you mess up⁣⁣
- ⭐️ Doing more of what you love⁣⁣
- ⭐️ Playing to your strengths⁣⁣
- ⭐️ Sunday night dread⁣⁣
- ⭐️ Great bosses⁣⁣
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HUGE THANKS to Rayden Solicitors @rayden_solicitors for sponsoring this third season ❤️🙏❤️⁣⁣
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#comebackcoach #careerbreak #returningtowork #workingmummy #workingmama #workingmum ⁣⁣
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