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Managing Your Career Whilst Caring For Others

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When The Going Gets Tough, Don't Get Going

You might feel as though you’re at a crossroads in your career, where choices seem limited and the options unattractive. If you feel at this crossroads, wondering if the only..

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Inclusive Leadership - Future Proofing Your Management Style

Highlighted below are several statements that I have heard multiple times from managers when I ask about their management style. They’re widely held beliefs and might strike you..

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A Window into the Boundaried Worker

‘Setting boundaries’ often features in advice columns for managing romantic relationships. Delineating what you’re willing to compromise on can be a valuable activity to protect..

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Build a Strategy to Support & Retain Your Working Parents

The rise of the dual-earner household in which both parents work full or part-time is so widespread today that families where only one parent works are now the exception and not..

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Creating the Work/Life Balance That You Want

The increasingly challenging environment we live in of elevated expectations, the ‘always-on’ culture and more recently, the global pandemic, have blurred the lines between work..

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Revalidating Your Career Upon Return From Leave

Antoinette Willcocks, from a magic circle law firm, talks about her transition back to work after parental leave and the importance of being vocal about what you want from your..

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Dual-Career Management

Managing Your Career as a Dual-Career Couple Pedro Martins, Chief Growth Officer at Total Media, talks to Geraldine, founder and CEO of ECC, on how he and his wife, Fiona, made..

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How to Have Sensitive Conversations

Executive Coach, Shalini Sequeira, covers some common conversations you may encounter as a manager. She gives some advice on how to handle colleagues announcing they are expecting..

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Re-Engaging Your Network

Emma Spitz, Executive Coach and Director at ECC, shares her advice on how to proactively reconnect with colleagues after leave from work. She also shares tips on how to identify..

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Advancing Gender Equity

How to Make Progress in Gender Equity Like many of the DEI, talent and HR people we work with, we spend much of our time on the ground with managers and their teams. This..

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The 5 Myths of Gender Equity

With almost half (47%) of Brits thinking gender equality will be reached in their lifetime, up from 40% in 2018, the outlook seems quite positive. But with the World Economic..

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Toolkit for a Working Parent

Working Life as a Parent: Full Toolkit We’ve compiled some of our favourite checklists, tools and tips for you into this downloadable toolkit. Take a read through and note down..

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Top Tips to Building Confidence

Confidence is an important ingredient to career success. It’s an active mindset, an emotion that impacts our motivation, our ability to communicate and ultimately, our results. If..

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Revealing your Brilliance & Redefining your Success

Dick Fosbury In 1963 the record for high jump stood at 2.28m by Brumel, a Russian athlete. About the same time, an upcoming athlete from Oregon State University claimed to surpass..

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Working Life as a Parent: Full Toolkit

We’ve compiled some of our favourite checklists, tools and tips for you into this downloadable toolkit. Take a read through and note down the actions you’d like to take as a..

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Am I Being Mummy Tracked? Spot The Signs and 4 Tips for Tackling It

As a parent, particularly of young children, you may feel very time poor. More than anything else, what you need is a manager who just “gets it” with respect to your need for..

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Balancing Care Responsibilities With a Career

Eldercare often starts with a sudden, unexpected event, such as a fall. So we leap in to handle the crisis, which we can feel very unprepared for. Once started these events often..

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How to Spot the Signs When Someone is Struggling

I Know My Team Well, They’ll Tell Me If Anything’s Wrong. In recent years, we’ve made great strides in overcoming some of the taboos in talking about our mental health at work,..

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How to Have A Conversation That You Are Expecting

Antoinette Willcocks, from a magic circle law firm, talks about her experience of sharing the news that she was expecting. She gives her insights about what she wishes she had..

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Where are all our Female Leaders?

We’re passionate about what we do here at ECC and our solutions are rooted in decades of coaching experience and informed by the most expert research in the field. Our mission is..

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Surrogacy

Jim Ford, a Law Firm Partner, tells his story and gives his advice to others thinking about surrogacy. He also shares some helpful pointers for managers and colleagues on how they..

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Revalidating Your Career Upon Return

Robert Simmons, a lawyer at Allen & Overy LLP, talks about the challenges of transitioning back to work after parental leave. He explains what helped him find a balance between..

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Why we need to Rethink Leadership Development of Executive Women

Welcome to Episode 5 of Shifting the Needle, our DE&I podcast presented by CEO & Master Executive Coach Geraldine Gallacher.

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Building Your Confidence

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Tips for Getting Childcare Right

Becoming a parent for the first time is a rollercoaster of changes, and you may be surprised to hear that figuring out the problem of childcare and subsequently handing over your..

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Deloitte on Mental Health & Employers

External Perspectives: Deloitte – Mental Health and Employers According to Deloitte, a sixth of workers experience a mental health problem at any one time and stress, anxiety and..

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Managing Your Career as a Dual-Career Couple

Pedro Martins, Chief Growth Officer at Total Media, talks to Geraldine, founder and CEO of ECC, on how he and his wife, Fiona, made decisions as a couple about home and work. He..

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Shifting the Needle: Episode 3 – Inclusion Nudges

Welcome to Episode 3 of Shifting the Needle, our new podcast presented by CEO & Master Executive Coach Geraldine Gallacher aimed at D&I professionals who are working towards a..

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Concerned About How Parenthood Could Impact Your Career?

If you are working and have plans to have children one day, you have probably already looked around your organisation at other parents and drawn some conclusions about how..

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How to Have Courageous Conversations With Your Manager

Emma Spitz, Executive Coach and Director, talks about how to approach those tough conversations. She gives some practical steps to take in preparation, during the conversation and..

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Keeping Your Career on Track - a Model for Career success

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Tips for Getting it Right When Managing Working Parents

One of the best ways I’ve seen this play out is during a meeting I was having with a global legal firm leader and her boss before going on parental leave.

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Real Stories: Dads & Working From Home

Welcome to our series of ‘Real Stories’ where we’re fortunate to have a snapshot into the personal lives of working parents in the hope that their experiences can help others who..

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5 Myths of Gender Equity

With almost half (47%) of Brits thinking gender equality will be reached in their lifetime, up from 40% in 2018, the outlook seems quite positive. But with the World Economic..

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How to Make Progress in Gender Equity

Like many of the DEI, talent and HR people we work with, we spend much of our time on the ground with managers and their teams. This familiarity with organisations means that we..

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The Top 5 Things You Shouldn’t Say to Someone Grieving (and What to Say or Do Instead)

As a human being and leader, you may well have your own experiences of loss and grief and know that as individuals we can respond very differently.

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Balancing Career & Family

When The Going Gets Tough, Don’t Get Going You might feel as though you’re at a crossroads in your career, where choices seem limited and the options unattractive. If you feel at..

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Strategies for Working Caregivers

Mallika Kripalani, ECC Executive Coach based in Singapore, has written this article with working carers in Asia in mind. Caring in Asia In many Asian societies, the expectation is..

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Thinking Ahead

Parental Transition

Working Life As A Parent

Managing Your Career Whilst Caring For Others

Managing Working Parents

Working Carers