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Parental Transition: Practical Support

Parental Transition
These practical resources & insights will help your transition throughout parental leave. We share insights on from sharing your news, to revalidating your career on return
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Real Stories: Sharing Parental Leave From a Dad's Perspective - Max from Total Media
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Tips for Getting Childcare Right 
Tips for Getting Childcare Right 

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Communication through the transition
Have you noticed a change in communication at work since announcing you're becoming a parent? This video outlines the..
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Real Stories: Sharing Parental Leave From a Dad's Perspective - Max from Total Media
Welcome to our series of ‘Real Stories’ where we’re fortunate to have a snapshot into the personal lives of working..
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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..
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Revalidating Your Career Upon Return From Leave
Robert Simmons, a lawyer at Allen & Overy LLP, talks about the challenges of transitioning back to work after parental..
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How to avoid being mummy tracked - ECC
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How to Avoid Being Mummy Tracked
I know it’s a terrible expression, but I do think it does sum up a phenomenon that many women experience at work when..
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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..
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Real Stories: Sharing Parental Leave From a Dad's Perspective - Sietse from Edrington
Welcome to our series of ‘Real Stories’ where we’re fortunate to have a snapshot into the personal lives of working..
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Managing Change: Insights for Expectant & New Parents
We all know any life is a life of change! Transitions are a constant feature – welcome or otherwise – of our..
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Managing the workload as a Working Parent: Exercise
This is an exercise to help you think about how to manage the workload of being a working parent. It can be really..
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Returning to Work Successfully
Practical Tips collated from 1000s of New Parents As the end of your parental leave approaches, you might find yourself..
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Managing Resilience
Resilience is important for everyone, and even more so those of us under the constant pressure of juggling the..
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Building Your Confidence
In this video tailored for parents returning to the workplace from family leave, we share our thoughts about how to..
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Stepping back into your career
As you near the end of your parental leave, you are likely feeling a bit more experienced as a parent, but are yet to..
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The First 90 Days: Checklist
Congratulations! You have made it back to work. For some of you it will feel like you have never been away, and for..
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Flexible Working: What it Could Look Like and How to Ask for It
Only a few decades ago, having a career while balancing personal commitments was an enormous challenge. The options..
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How to Share The News That You’re Taking Shared Parental Leave
In this video, new father Robert Simmons, a lawyer from Allen & Overy LLP, answers questions about how he communicated..
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Laying The Path For Your Return Before You Leave
Your parental leave is suddenly coming up fast, and you’ll soon be teetering on the edge of a very different chapter to..
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Planning Your Return: Checklist
Work is just around the corner and you, like many new parents, might be looking back in surprise at how quickly your..
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Key Conversations to Have With Your Partner Before Becoming Parents
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Co-Parenting: Key Conversations to Have With Your Partner
Studies show that advanced economies today have more families with both parents working than ever before.  Dual-career..
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Real Stories: Sharing Parental Leave from a Dad’s Perspective - Steve in Investment Banking
Welcome to our series of ‘Real Stories’ where we’re fortunate to have a snapshot into the personal lives of working..
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Developing a New Network: Exercise
Typically, your network will have evolved in the professional and personal spheres over the last few years and whilst..
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What You Should Know Before Having a Family - a Dad's perspective
Welcome to our series of ‘Real Stories’ where we’re fortunate to have a snapshot into the personal lives of working..
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Real Stories: Sharing Parental Leave From a Dad’s Perspective - Sam from Thinkbox
Welcome to our series of ‘Real Stories’ where we’re fortunate to have a snapshot into the personal lives of working..
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Handover: Checklist
In the few weeks before leave, you should firm up and start a formal handover plan. If you are working close to the due..
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Can Dads Have It All?
Consciously or unconsciously, when having to prioritise between home and career, a large percentage of men (myself..
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How to Have A Conversation That You Are Expecting
Navigating how to have a conversation that you are expecting can feel like a daunting task. In this video we dive into..
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Managing a less 'Elastic' Day
Once back at work, one of the practical changes that many new parents notice is that they need to approach their..
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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..
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