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Why does a coaching psychologist open coaching sessions with the question "what's gone well since the last time we worked together?" There's more thought behind it than you might realise...listen to episode 83 of COMEBACK COACH (12 mins): https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/comeback-coach/id1547105158
Working Parents of Neurodivergent Children
Hello, I’m so pleased you’re here. I’m Jessica Chivers, a coaching psychologist, founder of The Talent Keeper Specialists and author of “Mothers Work! How to Get a Grip on Guilt and Make a Smooth Return to Work”. I’m also mother of two neurodivergent teenagers and I’d really like to know your experience of being a working parent to one […]
1+2 focussed coaching for success
1+2 Short & impactful coaching If you’ve had or are used to commissioning executive coaching that takes place over 6-12 months, I invite you to consider an alternative: our 1+2 coaching approach over 6-8 weeks. Now bookable via online payment, should skirting around POs and supplier set-up admin be helpful to you. 2+1 coaching is […]
Why strengths coaching when employees return to work from maternity, sick leave and other breaks?
Whilst I was peeling carrots last Sunday my daughter reflected on how happy she is that she’s been allowed to drop GCSE Spanish. She’d fallen behind in Y9 after three months medical leave and I mused that it was a shame because she’d always seemed to enjoy it. “No,” came the reply. “I was good […]
Boreout
What happens when we’re chronically bored at work? There was so much I wanted to pick up on at the end of my conversation with fire fighter Emma Young (COMEBACK COACH episode 86) about her experience of being taken off frontline duties when she was pregnant and returning to the fire service after maternity leave. […]
Managing rumination + keeping healthy habits when you’re consumed with problems at work
This is the transcript of episode 83 of COMEBACK COACH, the podcast for people returning to work after a break. Hello Bright Minds, I’m Jessica Chivers a coaching psychologist, the author of “Mothers Work! How to Get a Grip on Guilt and Make a Smooth Return to Work” and founder of The Talent Keeper Specialists. […]
Psychology of, and coaching through, redundancy
Redundancy and how our sense of psychological safety is affected be being ‘at risk’ of redundancy is top of mind this week. The Protection from Redundancy (Pregnancy and Family Leave) Act 2023 comes into effect on Friday 6th April. My thanks to for the following people for their contributions in this piece: Dr Maddy Stevens, Reader in Organisation […]
Why Don’t Men Take Shared Parental Leave in our Business?
For International Men’s Day we asked Ian Dinwiddy, specialist fatherhood coach in our executive coach team, for his reflections on why men don’t take Shared Parental Leave. We also spoke to new father Phil Bush from Euromonitor who took a sabbatical to help support his partner’s return to work from maternity leave, instead of taking […]
Comeback Coaching Research
This research request has been e-mailed to past coachees who meet certain criteria. Please only REGISTER HERE if you have received an e-mail inviting you to be part of this research. Summary of Research Qualitative research methods will be employed to follow-up with, and understand the experiences of, women who had ‘comeback coaching’* to support […]
Caring For Employees With Neurodivergent Children – Responses to 7 Qs
Caring for employees with neurodivergent children is close to my heart, writes Jessica Chivers, coaching psychologist and founder of The Talent Keeper Specialists. “Last year my son was permanently excluded from school four months ahead of his GCSEs for ‘persistent disruptive behaviour’ and six weeks later my daughter was diagnosed with anorexia. My son was […]
How Working From Home Could Close Your Gender Pay Gap (And Why Male Leaders Should Talk About Housework)
Stanford University economics professor Nicholas Bloom thinks remote working is so relevant to today’s knowledge workers he’s co-organising a two-day remote work conference this autumn. He’s the researcher who found working from home led to a 13% uplift in performance among call centre staff at the 16,000-employee, NASDAQ-listed Chinese travel agency, CTrip1. Working from home is of […]