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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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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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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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Working Parent Challenges
Director and Parental Transition Coach, Helen Ilsley, shares insights about balancing careers with parental..
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Parents Questionnaire
At ECC we’re proud to have worked with thousands of parents over the years. We’ve seen the importance of having good..
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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 - ECC
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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
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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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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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Developing a New Network: Exercise
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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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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..
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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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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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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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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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The Parental Transition: Full Toolkit
We’ve compiled some of our favourite checklists, tools and tips for you into this downloadable toolkit. Take a read..
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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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Practising Your Confidence
Karen Falcocchio, Executive Coach, gives hints and tips on how to build your confidence. These include how to recognise..
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