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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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Flexible Working: What it Could Look Like and How to Ask for It

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Communication through the transition

Communication through the transition

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Real Stories: Sharing Parental Leave From a Dad's Perspective - Max from Total Media

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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Revalidating Your Career Upon Return From Leave

Revalidating Your Career Upon Return From Leave

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Parental Transition

Communication through the transition

Have you noticed a change in communication at work since announcing you're becoming a parent? This video outlines the..

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..

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..

How to avoid being mummy tracked - ECC

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..

Top Tips to Building Confidence

Confidence is an important ingredient to career success. It’s an active mindset, an emotion that impacts our..

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..

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..

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..

Returning to Work Successfully

Practical Tips collated from 1000s of New Parents As the end of your parental leave approaches, you might find yourself..

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..

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..

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..

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..

Key Conversations to Have With Your Partner Before Becoming Parents

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..

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..

Developing a New Network: Exercise

Typically, your network will have evolved in the professional and personal spheres over the last few years and whilst..

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..

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..

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..

Can Dads Have It All?

Consciously or unconsciously, when having to prioritise between home and career, a large percentage of men (myself..

4:23 mins watch

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..

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..

3:51 mins watch

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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