Returning to Work and Career Focus

Designed to give mothers increased levels of confidence and skill in their ability to negotiate and manage their return to work transition, after maternity leave. Tools to help mothers prepare to go back to work both practically and emotionally. We will explore the common challenges faced by many women around self-confidence, which includes holding difficult conversations and clarity around what the balance is that they are striving for.

Includes four coaching sessions and an individualised coaching plan. It also includes e-mail support between sessions. 

Coaching Outcomes: 

• Coaching and support that will help to integrate you back into a working environment.

• Strategies and tips that will help you create a balance between your work and home life.

• Setting boundaries between work and personal space/time.

• Improved skills in your ability to negotiate workload, position, and work expectations with your team and line manager.

• The development of an individualised, detailed coaching plan that specifies and monitors your objectives and ambitions.

 Takeaways

• The development of a detailed, individualised coaching plan that’s yours, and yours only.

• One-on-one coaching that supports you to achieve your career objectives in the lead up to maternity leave.

• Increased confidence in your ability to negotiate the best terms and conditions of your maternity leave.

• Improved ability to meet your work obligations now as a working parent. 

• An increased level of self-awareness and empowerment as you prepare for one of the most important transitions in your life.

• Strategies and tips on how to manage issues commonly associated with taking maternity leave eg exclusion and unconscious bias, returning to work after maternity leave.

*Can be availed of as individual sessions or delivered as an entire coaching programme.