And Just Like That… Beyond EAP is 10 Years Old!
July 1, 2024
Forgive me for stealing Carrie Bradshaw’s iconic catchphrase, but these past 10 years really have flown by “just like that!”This time 10 years ago, I couldn’t imagine that my grain of an idea – to support employees through challenging life events – would grow int...
Mishandling Flexible Working Requests
September 4, 2023
What are the negative effects for the company and the maternity returner?
I’ve recently had a family member go through a really bad experience regarding her flexible working request with her employer. *Hearing such bad practice, I wanted to highlight how this could have been avoided and how it leaves the employee feeling on their return to work....
An alternative view on new motherhood and work
July 3, 2023
“It feels like some phases will never end... but don’t worry, they will.”
It can be difficult to speak openly about the pressures of new motherhood and work.From the moment you tell your employer that you’re expecting, it’s easy to feel as though you’re letting them down.Then, once your baby is born – and it feels as though your entire wor...
5 Things She Could Be Thinking (But Not Saying)
September 1, 2022
How to Manage Maternity Leave, So You Retain Happy and Talented EmployeesMany employers think of the words “maternity leave” as a signal for change.Change as in: who’s going to provide maternity cover, and for how long? How and when will you keep in touch with your new...
"Maternity Leave is Just a Long Holiday, Isn’t It?"
March 11, 2022
If I had a pound for every time I heard this from an employer, I’d be a millionaire by now.
Admittedly, I don’t always hear it first-hand. It’s often the pregnant employee herself who tells me, that on her last day the boss offered what seemed like “a fina...
Beyond EAP: A Year in Review
December 3, 2021
Have you heard of a ‘round-robin letter’?
Some people include these in the Christmas cards they send to their friends and family. In the letters, they describe the year’s key events for them.
While it’s easy to think of a round-robin letter as nothing more...
5 Things She Could Be Thinking (But Not Saying)...Many employers think of the words “maternity leave” as a signal for change.
Change as in: who’s going to provide maternity cover, and for how long? How and when will you keep in touch with your new mum, so th...
Why Do So Few Employees Use Their Benefits-Packed KIT Days?
August 2, 2021
I was so happy to report recently that two of the firms we support, BDB Pitmans LLP, and Winckworth Sherwood LLP, have agreed to amend their policies, now classing my planned parental coaching sessions as paid Keeping In Touch (KIT) days.
These firms will not only be better ...
As an employee maternity coaches, we have welcomed the media’s recent foray into talking about postpartum psychosis (described by the NHS as a “serious mental health illness that can affect a woman soon after she has a baby”).
That phrase “postpartum psychosis...
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