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📣 NEW CLIENT SING OUT: Our CEO Jessica is ‘bl

📣 NEW CLIENT SING OUT: Our CEO Jessica is ‘blinking’ her way through the washing up. “Blinking?” you ask. “Blink” - the verb to shut one’s eyes and also to learn the key ideas from fascinating non-fiction reads.⁣
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❤️🙏❤️ We are DELIGHTED we are going to be working with BLINKIST @blinkist people preparing for/returning from an extended period of leave.⁣⁣
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🙋‍♀️ Have you heard of Blinkist? Please tell us in the comments⁣…⁣
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⁉️ What is it?⁣⁣
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📚 Non-fiction books digested into very small chunks (or ‘blinks’) that you can either listen to or read.⁣⁣
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⏰ The time optimiser in Jessica is squealing with delight at this new find.⁣⁣
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She started at the sink with Jim Collins’ seminal book, “Good to Great” and has since blinked her way through:⁣⁣
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- 👍📚 How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollen.⁣
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- 👍 📚13 Things Mentally Strong People Don’t Do by Amy Morin.⁣⁣
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- 👍 📚Wherever You Go, There You Are by Jon Kabat-Zin.⁣⁣
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- 👍 📚 Meditations on First Philosophy by Rene Descartes.⁣⁣
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👉 N.B. We are not being paid to promote Blinkist. Nor did we get a free subscription. You know us, everything we rave about comes from a place of honest passion. ⁣⁣
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#returningtowork #selfdevelopment #CPD #schoolholidays #blinkist #timeoptimiser #hr #employeeexperience

🌟🎧 We’ve recommended this episode a lot!⁣
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🙋‍♂️ Chris is a Director in EY’s Consulting business, leading the Project Development offering within their Sustainable Infrastructure team.⁣
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💪 He’s also a fab father of four who REALLY DOES SHARE THE MENTAL LOAD with his wife. Huzzah for Chris and other daddies like him! ⁣
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👉 You’re going to want to share this episode with your partner and male colleagues.⁣
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🎧 Listen to Jessica’s chat with Chris that covers: ⁣
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- Genuinely sharing the mental load at home⁣
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- Working 80% FTE⁣
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- Benefits of taking Shared Parental Leave⁣
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- Making a comeback after SPL⁣
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- Whether he'd ask for PT if a role was advertised as FT⁣
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🙏 Big thanks to Times Top 200 family law firm, Rayden Solicitors, for sponsoring all 36 episodes of the podcast – we know you know about families ⁣
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#comebackcoach #sharedparentalleave #daddy #fatherhood #newdaddy ⁣
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❤️ BIG LOVE for Shiobhaun, the first coach to

❤️ BIG LOVE for Shiobhaun, the first coach to join our team back in 2016. ⁣
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😁 Shiobhaun delighted an accountancy firm client this week with her delivery of a session for accountants preparing to become Partners in 2023.⁣
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🧠 Best wishes to the participants Shiobhaun worked with for their onward career journey.⁣
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#makingpartner #accountancy #lifebalance #careerprogression #coaching

🎙⚠️ When PEOPLE MANAGEMENT magazine asked m

🎙⚠️ When PEOPLE MANAGEMENT magazine asked me for comment on this seemingly positive news story about record number of mothers being in work I had to speak out. I'm seeing far too many women burning out because they are doing TOO MUCH.⁣⁣
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👉🎧 (For a brilliant example of a family with two parents with big jobs where the mental and physical load is shared check out episode 36 of our podcast COMEBACK COACH with father of four and EY Director, Chris Ashton-Holt).⁣⁣
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✍️ Dan Cave’s piece for PEOPLE MANAGEMENT:⁣⁣
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👉 Data showed that more than three-quarters (75.6 per cent) of mothers with dependent children were currently in work, while the overall 16-64 female employment rate has hit 72.5 per cent, closer to the early 2019 record rate of 72.7 per cent.⁣⁣
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👉 With a third of working mothers also accessing special working arrangements, such as flexible or term-time hours – a higher level than compared to fathers (23.6 per cent) – it is clear many employers are re-imagining work to allow better access to those with care responsibilities.⁣⁣
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⚠️ However, Jessica Chivers, coaching psychologist, author and host of the Comeback Coach podcast, explained that more still needed to be done to level the playing field between men and women, ⁣⁣
both at work and in the home.⁣⁣
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⚠️ “Without men taking on their fair share at home, women are at risk of burning out as they progress their careers, or not progressing because of the cost to family relationships and health,” she said.⁣⁣
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⚠️ With employed women spending more time on unpaid childcare and housework than employed men (85 and 167 minutes per day compared to 56 and 102 minutes per day), according to ONS data from March 2022, Chivers suggested that employers can take a central role in addressing the ⁣⁣
imbalance.⁣⁣
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👉 She added: “This means employers encouraging men to take shared parental leave and proactively talking to them about how they’d like to alter their schedule to be active at home (eg. going to 0.8 FTE) when they become a father.”⁣⁣
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SEE COMMENTS FOR FINAL THOUGHTS.
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#workingparents

🙋‍♀️ TRUE or FALSE: Returning to work aft

🙋‍♀️ TRUE or FALSE: Returning to work after maternity leave is a big life event?*⁣
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💪 Here at The Talent Keeper Specialists we think it's FALSE. We think returning from any type of extended leave is a BIG TRANSITION, not an 'EVENT'. ⁣
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⚠️ More important than what we think though, is how line managers behave. That's why we educate line managers through our online resources, coaching programmes and workshops. Check out the website 👆👆⁣
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🎙 In the latest episode of our podcast, COMEBACK COACH, Jessica coaches the bright and ambitious Learning & Development leader, Jo Byrne, who's re-joining the world of work in a new job and new sector after her first baby.⁣
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Episode LIVE Wednesday 20th July (Apple, Spotify, Google and our website 👆👆)⁣
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#returningtowork #maternityleave #comebackcoach #employeeexperience ⁣
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*It's easy for minds to get muddled in the heat, so there's no judgement if you said "TRUE".🥵😁⁣
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👶❤️‍🩹 Google senior recruiter, Emily W

👶❤️‍🩹 Google senior recruiter, Emily Wheen, was diagnosed with post-natal depression and anxiety when she returned from maternity leave. ⁣
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She took an extra 2.5 months of leave and a serious knock to her confidence. ⁣⁣
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🙂 She speaks so honestly on the podcast: ⁣⁣
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✍️“I got to the point where my husband actually had to write the e-mail to my boss because I couldn't do it. He was constantly telling me I needed to take time off and to speak to my manager but I was in denial. Eventually he wrote the e-mail and then I had a conversation with my manager and luckily she was incredibly supportive. I decided to take leave to get better because at that point it just wasn't getting better at work and I clearly need to take the time out to do some work on myself, to ground myself.”⁣⁣
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💪💪 She returned to work for the second time in October 2021 and says she finally feels like herself again. ⁣⁣
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🙏 BIG THANKS TO OUR SEASON 3 SPONSOR @rayden_solicitors and listen on our website, Apple, Spotify & Google. 👆⁣⁣
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#returningtowork #maternityleave #pnd #postnatal #postnataldepression #maternalmentalhealth #comebackcoach #backtowork #anxiety #anxietysupport #podcastersofinstagram

🙃 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

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