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EVOLVE: Supporting confident returns after parental leave

One of the key challenges faced by working parents, is achieving a healthy balance between the demands of work and family life.

Whether you are returning after your first child or have been balancing work and family life for some time, our EVOLVE programme will give you renewed confidence as well as practical tools and targeted support to help you focus on specific areas of your work and home life, enabling you to thrive in your professional, personal and family life.

Who is it for?

  • Employees who are currently on parental leave and are preparing to return to work
  • Employees who have returned to work within the last six months who feel they need further support to adjust to life as a working parent.

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Participants will be supported to:

  • Re-establish a strong and confident professional identity.
  • Clarify personal motivations and goals for returning to work.
  • Recognise and manage guilt and other challenging emotions effectively.
  • Adjust practically and emotionally to the demands of working parenthood.
  • Build confidence, self-belief, and professional resilience.
  • Reassess values and priorities while strengthening time and energy management skills.
  • Learn practical techniques to set boundaries and prepare for potentially difficult workplace conversations.
  • Identify the right work/life fit through a structured gap analysis.
  • Build and maintain effective support networks both at work and at home.
  • Understand and enhance organisational and professional visibility to support long-term career progression.

Delivery

This is a seven module, online course which should take approximately eight hours to complete (including self-study tasks and personalised one-to-one coaching)

Upon enrolling, delegates are introduced to a dedicated coach and access to high-quality online learning materials Your coach will support you through the materials and at the end of the course, you will have a one-to-one coaching session to review learning and ensure you have the skills and confidence to take ownership of your successful return to work

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