Return to Work Coaching
Supporting you to return to your career with confidence.
- Are you feeling low in confidence when you consider your return to work options?
- Are you lacking clarity and focus on where to start?
- Are you feeling nervous and unprepared for your return to a new role?
Returning to work after a career break is never easy. Whatever your reason for taking time off, whether it’s due to redundancy, long-term illness, caring for someone, starting a family, or you've taken time off to go travelling, it can be hard to feel confident about picking up where you left off. It’s easy to underestimate the value of hard-earned experience and to ignore the skills we gain from our responsibilities beyond work, and you may feel like you need some support to rediscover your working self.
Return to Work Coaching with Work4Wellness is a confidential, collaborative process that empowers coachee's to talk openly and honestly about where they are now and where they would like to be, challenge their fears and unconscious bias, develop confidence, find clarity and solutions, and develop actional steps to achieve their goals.
Six Session Coaching Roadmap
In the first session we will establish the coaching foundation, including confidentiality and expectations. We will assess where you are now, review your career break, acknowledge your professional identity, and define your overarching goal and a clear vision of what a "successful" return looks like for you.
The second sessions focuses on the "pre-work" of returning to the workplace, organizing your practical arrangements, planning your first few weeks, identifying what support systems you need in place, and developing a realistic checklist of practical action steps.
The third session focuses on identifying your core strengths, mapping transferable skills, reframing negative thoughts or guilt about returning, and developing a "strengths profile".
In the fourth session you will explore how to manage your new routine without burnout; setting clear working hours, having effective return-to-work conversations, and learning how to say 'no' to non-urgent tasks.
The fifth session focuses on reconnecting with workplace culture, rebuilding relationships with line managers, and finding your voice in meetings, developing strategies for making your value visible.
In the final session we will review and consolidate your progress and build a framework for the future, creating a 6-12 month actionable development plan.