Comeback Community™ delivers confident returns for employees and managers

Empowering returners and their line mangers to create smooth, confident and productive comebacks after maternity, sick leave and other breaks.

What is it?

Comeback Community™ is an easy-to-implement and inclusive way for employers to show they care when employees take maternity, adoption, shared parental leave, sickness and sabbatical.

The Comeback Community™ employee experience programme is designed to keep colleagues feeling confident, connected and cared for at a vulnerable point in their life and career. It’s about maintaining engagement and fortifying performance.

The programme blends 1:1 coaching and a packed online library of tools, expert advice videos and ‘how to’ articles, with line manager support, group coaching and timely nudges to access the full suite of resources throughout their whole leave and return journey.

The programme is underpinned by the Nine Needs of Leave framework and our research published in The Coaching Psychologist shows the lasting effects of comeback coaching.

Investment

From £1,500 + VAT, including three hours 1-1 coaching.

How it works

Maintaining engagement and fortifying performance from before leave to up to 12 months after employees return.

When an employee starts to plan their extended leave, they simply click through to the platform and create a profile, including their planned leave and return dates. Access to the resources starts immediately and continues for up to a year after they return.

We get in touch with your colleague within 48 hours to set up a 20 minute introductory call with one of our coaches. The purpose of the call is for your employee to get a feel for the coach; to tell the coach more about themselves and their role and to ask any questions they might have about coaching. If after the call the employee likes the sound of coaching but didn’t feel a good connection with the coach they spoke with, they can request another introductory call with a different coach.

We provide a coachee pack with information about the programme, answers to FAQs and our ethical code. This can sit on your intranet, and – if you request it – we’ll provide wording to introduce the Comeback Community™ employee experience programme to your people via your intranet and other internal comms channels.

What’s in it for Employees?

Practical support before, during and after leave for increased confidence and a smoother return to work.

1:1 coaching at intervals to suit the employee.
Line managers equipped to ensure a smooth, supportive re-entry.
24/7 access to 100s of online resources; articles, tools and downloads.
Expert Q&A videos with leading thinkers and authors on key topics.
Fortnightly emails signposting relevant resources.
An uplifting Welcome Back Box to mark their return.
Fortnightly Comeback Coach podcast episodes.
Quarterly Group Coaching for career development and shared learning.
Copy of Mother’s Work! (for parental leave employees).

What’s in it for Employers

A cost effective solution for employers to retain talent, strengthen engagement, and ease the return-to-work process.

Help the business to keep and motivate employees, reducing the high-cost, and lag in productivity of recruiting replacements.
Contribute to reducing your gender pay gap and help you keep women’s careers moving to achieve your targets for X percent of women in leadership roles by X date.
External coaches who build trust and rapport quickly, meaning candid conversations that reach the heart of problems faster – your people getting back to their best, quicker.
Support line managers in having the right conversations at the right time – a community of people of people whose positive contribution is critical.

Making a difference to men

New fathers benefit from coaching for the transition to working parenthood too.

This is Greg, he’s a Partner at Kilburn & Strode LLP, a firm we have worked with since 2018. The conversations we have with coachees returning to work are far-ranging – from the very personal to tricky leadership situations and business challenges.

There’s one thing all of the people we coach have in common: appreciation for their employer.

Appreciation that their return to work was recognised as a significant transition personally and professionally. Appreciation that our client, their employer, gifted them a confidential space to think, plan and problem-solve at a pivotal career moment.

Comeback coaching and the Comeback Community™ employee experience is just-in-time support that fortifies your people for the long-term.

Would you like this for your return to work?

We work via employers and if you like what’s on offer we can help you talk to your employer about working with us. Use the contact form to drop us a line and we’ll be in touch soon.