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WHAT OUR CLIENTS SAY ABOUT US
“I went into coaching sceptical about what I would get out. It was brilliant!”
Louise, MD, BlackRock
“…the feedback has been amazing, from both returners and line managers.”
Kirsty, Head of Development & Wellbeing, ITV
“Comeback coaching has given returning colleagues the confidence to have more open conversations with their line managers about their career aspirations. We’ve started to see a shift in the number of women in senior positions and TTKS have certainly helped with that journey.”
Nicola, L&D Partner, Federated Hermes
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
Returning to work from maternity, sick, shared parental or another break? We’ve got your comeback covered on COMEBACK COACH, the free podcast for people returning to work, recommended by HR leaders. 75 episodes waiting for you with @jesschivers https://www.talentkeepers.co.uk/comeback-coach-podcast/ 😊🎧🧠
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 […]
Are compressed hours fair?
By Jessica Chivers, founder of The Talent Keeper Specialists How to make full time work, work How to make full time work work is explored in episode 62 of our podcast, COMEBACK COACH. It’s the podcast recommended by HR leaders to employees preparing to return to work after a break. Compressed hours are one of […]
The Equal Parent
What can two gay dads teach fathers about being a parent? Quite a lot actually. That was the headline in The Times on Saturday 25/2/23 about Paul & Robin Morgan-Bentley, a husband and husband duo who had their son Solly via surrogacy. Paul is the author of a new book The Equal Parent (digested below) […]
Start your new job by considering your quit criteria
“What if I leave this job and hate the next one?” This is a fear many of us have experienced in our careers when we’re in a job we don’t like. It’s one we work on with coachees. Most of us would rather stay and keep hating our current job than risk moving to a […]
Don’t Fix Women
Our founder Jessica Chivers was delighted to contribute* to “Don’t Fix Women” and join Joy Burnford at the launch at the London Stock Exchange. When JC reads non-fiction she’s in the habit of marking up key page references in the front cover for ease of reference when she returns to it weeks/months/years down the line). […]