<a target="_blank" href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/1575013/open_sms">Ask me a Q</a>Hello Bright Minds, my conversation today is with Laura Scougall, Head of ITV Academy. Knowing Laura is a chatty, confident person we decided to make it a freeform conversation without any pre-agreed questions so it’s a bit of a random episode that covers a lot of ground.We talked about:<ul><li>How to get back to sleep after being up with a baby or an 18 year old in my case.</li><li>Coping with being placed at risk of redundancy and dragged out of your maternity bubble to think about finding another job.</li><li>Not introducing yourself in meetings with an apology.</li><li>Why I walk around my garden barefoot when I first wake up.</li><li>The daily additional stress of being a working parent of a little boy with autism.</li><li>Being totally open at work about what’s going on at home.</li><li>Having the confidence to ask colleagues to reschedule a meeting that you can’t make last minute.</li><li>Being generous with positive feedback.</li></ul>Laura’s wobbly moments and tips for coming back to work after maternity leave which includes leaning into the chaos.I hope you get plenty from it and if you do, please would you leave a short review and a rating wherever you listen. Thank you so much. MORE FOR YOU <ul> <li>DM Jessica on instagram <a href='https://www.instagram.com/comebackcommuk/'>@comebackcommuk</a> </li> <li>Get <a href='https://www.subscribepage.com/comebackcommunity'>Caremail </a> (free, every other Sunday at 7am)</li> <li>Read <a href='https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1848503199?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=wwwbeyoubutbe-21&amp;link_code=as3&amp;camp=2506&amp;creative=9298&amp;creativeASIN=1848503199'>Mothers Work! How to Get a Grip on Guilt and Make a Smooth Return to Work</a> by Jessica Chivers.</li> <li> <a href='https://vimeo.com/759174786'>Watch five coachees</a> talk about working with us</li> <li> <a href='https://comebackcommunity.co.uk/introduce/'>Connect us to your HR team</a> - bring the Comeback Community™ employee experience to your workplace</li> </ul>

<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a target="_blank" href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/1575013/open_sms"&gt;Ask me a Q&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Hello Bright Minds, my conversation today is with Laura Scougall, Head of ITV Academy. Knowing Laura is a chatty, confident person we decided to make it a freeform conversation without any pre-agreed questions so it’s a bit of a random episode that covers a lot of ground.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;We talked about:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;How to get back to sleep after being up with a baby or an 18 year old in my case.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Coping with being placed at risk of redundancy and dragged out of your maternity bubble to think about finding another job.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Not introducing yourself in meetings with an apology.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Why I walk around my garden barefoot when I first wake up.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;The daily additional stress of being a working parent of a little boy with autism.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Being totally open at work about what’s going on at home.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Having the confidence to ask colleagues to reschedule a meeting that you can’t make last minute.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Being generous with positive feedback.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;Laura’s wobbly moments and tips for coming back to work after maternity leave which includes leaning into the chaos.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I hope you get plenty from it and if you do, please would you leave a short review and a rating wherever you listen. Thank you so much.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;MORE FOR YOU&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt;DM Jessica on instagram &lt;a href='https://www.instagram.com/comebackcommuk/'&gt;&lt;b&gt;@comebackcommuk&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;Get &lt;a href='https://www.subscribepage.com/comebackcommunity'&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;em&gt;Caremail &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;em&gt; &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/b&gt;(free, every other Sunday at 7am)&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;Read &lt;a href='https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1848503199?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;tag=wwwbeyoubutbe-21&amp;amp;link_code=as3&amp;amp;camp=2506&amp;amp;creative=9298&amp;amp;creativeASIN=1848503199'&gt;&lt;em&gt;Mothers Work! How to Get a Grip on Guilt and Make a Smooth Return to Work&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt; &lt;/em&gt;by Jessica Chivers.&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt; &lt;a href='https://vimeo.com/759174786'&gt;Watch five coachees&lt;/a&gt; talk about working with us&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt; &lt;a href='https://comebackcommunity.co.uk/introduce/'&gt;&lt;b&gt;Connect us to your HR team&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; - bring the Comeback Community™ employee experience to your workplace&lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt;</description>

Ask me a QHello Bright Minds, my conversation today is with Laura Scougall, Head of ITV Academy. Knowing Laura is a chatty, confident person we decided to make it a freeform conversation without any pre-agreed questions so it’s a bit of a random episode that covers a lot of ground.We talked about:How to get back to sleep after being up with a baby or an 18 year old in my case.Coping with being placed at risk of redundancy and dragged out of your maternity bubble to think about finding another...

94. COMEBACK – Laura Scougall – ITV – redundancy risk on maternity leave – being open at work about demands at home (autistic son) – how to get back to sleep

<a target="_blank" href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/1575013/open_sms">Ask me a Q</a>Hello Bright Minds, my guest today is Sarah Banks from Arcadis, the global design and engineering company.  Sarah has two little children and was promoted after both of her maternity leaves.  We have a wide-ranging conversation including:  <ul><li>Challenges and benefits of after work socialising.</li><li>KIT days.</li><li>Being the main earner in her family.</li><li>Being surprised by feeling a drop in confidence.</li><li>Worrying about not being able to do her job when she came back. </li><li>The shadow board that Arcadis has put in place in the Places part of the business to bridge the generational gap between employees and the leadership team and avoid groupthink.</li></ul> MORE FOR YOU <ul> <li>DM Jessica on instagram <a href='https://www.instagram.com/comebackcommuk/'>@comebackcommuk</a> </li> <li>Get <a href='https://www.subscribepage.com/comebackcommunity'>Caremail </a> (free, every other Sunday at 7am)</li> <li>Read <a href='https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1848503199?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=wwwbeyoubutbe-21&amp;link_code=as3&amp;camp=2506&amp;creative=9298&amp;creativeASIN=1848503199'>Mothers Work! How to Get a Grip on Guilt and Make a Smooth Return to Work</a> by Jessica Chivers.</li> <li> <a href='https://vimeo.com/759174786'>Watch five coachees</a> talk about working with us</li> <li> <a href='https://comebackcommunity.co.uk/introduce/'>Connect us to your HR team</a> - bring the Comeback Community™ employee experience to your workplace</li> </ul>

<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a target="_blank" href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/1575013/open_sms"&gt;Ask me a Q&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Hello Bright Minds, my guest today is Sarah Banks from Arcadis, the global design and engineering company. &lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Sarah has two little children and was promoted after both of her maternity leaves. &lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;We have a wide-ranging conversation including: &lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Challenges and benefits of after work socialising.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;KIT days.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Being the main earner in her family.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Being surprised by feeling a drop in confidence.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Worrying about not being able to do her job when she came back. &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;The shadow board that Arcadis has put in place in the Places part of the business to bridge the generational gap between employees and the leadership team and avoid groupthink.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;MORE FOR YOU&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt;DM Jessica on instagram &lt;a href='https://www.instagram.com/comebackcommuk/'&gt;&lt;b&gt;@comebackcommuk&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;Get &lt;a href='https://www.subscribepage.com/comebackcommunity'&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;em&gt;Caremail &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;em&gt; &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/b&gt;(free, every other Sunday at 7am)&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;Read &lt;a href='https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1848503199?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;tag=wwwbeyoubutbe-21&amp;amp;link_code=as3&amp;amp;camp=2506&amp;amp;creative=9298&amp;amp;creativeASIN=1848503199'&gt;&lt;em&gt;Mothers Work! How to Get a Grip on Guilt and Make a Smooth Return to Work&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt; &lt;/em&gt;by Jessica Chivers.&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt; &lt;a href='https://vimeo.com/759174786'&gt;Watch five coachees&lt;/a&gt; talk about working with us&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt; &lt;a href='https://comebackcommunity.co.uk/introduce/'&gt;&lt;b&gt;Connect us to your HR team&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; - bring the Comeback Community™ employee experience to your workplace&lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt;</description>

Ask me a QHello Bright Minds, my guest today is Sarah Banks from Arcadis, the global design and engineering company. Sarah has two little children and was promoted after both of her maternity leaves. We have a wide-ranging conversation including: Challenges and benefits of after work socialising.KIT days.Being the main earner in her family.Being surprised by feeling a drop in confidence.Worrying about not being able to do her job when she came back. The shadow board that A...

93. COMEBACK - Sarah Banks - Arcadis - Adjusting to big changes at work after maternity leave – benefits of being main earner - what is a company shadow board?

<a target="_blank" href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/1575013/open_sms">Ask me a Q</a>Hello Bright Minds. My guest today is  someone who wanted a platform to talk about her experience of continuing to work on and off during breast cancer treatment with the single goal of helping others find their way through this really difficult time.  Tara Ferguson is an Associate Director within the People team of a medium sized bio-tech business. She’s worked in a number of different sectors and types of business, in roles ranging from People Business Partner to Lead Coach to Employee Wellbeing Manager, in a career spanning over 20 years. She lives in Scotland with her husband Andy and teenage daughter Charlotte - enjoying cold water swimming, CrossFit, reading and time with family in her spare time.We talk about:<ul><li>Deciding not to walk away from work completely for the duration of her treatment.</li><li>Coming back on a phased return at the end of last period of chemotherapy.</li><li>What best in class line manager support looks and sounds like.</li><li>The impact of a medically induced menopause.</li><li>How businesses can hang onto women and turn the tide of the numbers of women walking away when they hit menopause.</li></ul> MORE FOR YOU <ul> <li>DM Jessica on instagram <a href='https://www.instagram.com/comebackcommuk/'>@comebackcommuk</a> </li> <li>Get <a href='https://www.subscribepage.com/comebackcommunity'>Caremail </a> (free, every other Sunday at 7am)</li> <li>Read <a href='https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1848503199?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=wwwbeyoubutbe-21&amp;link_code=as3&amp;camp=2506&amp;creative=9298&amp;creativeASIN=1848503199'>Mothers Work! How to Get a Grip on Guilt and Make a Smooth Return to Work</a> by Jessica Chivers.</li> <li> <a href='https://vimeo.com/759174786'>Watch five coachees</a> talk about working with us</li> <li> <a href='https://comebackcommunity.co.uk/introduce/'>Connect us to your HR team</a> - bring the Comeback Community™ employee experience to your workplace</li> </ul>

<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a target="_blank" href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/1575013/open_sms"&gt;Ask me a Q&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Hello Bright Minds. My guest today is  someone who wanted a platform to talk about her experience of continuing to work on and off during breast cancer treatment with the single goal of helping others find their way through this really difficult time. &lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Tara Ferguson is an Associate Director within the People team of a medium sized bio-tech business. She’s worked in a number of different sectors and types of business, in roles ranging from People Business Partner to Lead Coach to Employee Wellbeing Manager, in a career spanning over 20 years. She lives in Scotland with her husband Andy and teenage daughter Charlotte - enjoying cold water swimming, CrossFit, reading and time with family in her spare time.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;We talk about:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Deciding not to walk away from work completely for the duration of her treatment.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Coming back on a phased return at the end of last period of chemotherapy.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;What best in class line manager support looks and sounds like.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;The impact of a medically induced menopause.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;How businesses can hang onto women and turn the tide of the numbers of women walking away when they hit menopause.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;MORE FOR YOU&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt;DM Jessica on instagram &lt;a href='https://www.instagram.com/comebackcommuk/'&gt;&lt;b&gt;@comebackcommuk&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;Get &lt;a href='https://www.subscribepage.com/comebackcommunity'&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;em&gt;Caremail &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;em&gt; &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/b&gt;(free, every other Sunday at 7am)&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;Read &lt;a href='https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1848503199?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;tag=wwwbeyoubutbe-21&amp;amp;link_code=as3&amp;amp;camp=2506&amp;amp;creative=9298&amp;amp;creativeASIN=1848503199'&gt;&lt;em&gt;Mothers Work! How to Get a Grip on Guilt and Make a Smooth Return to Work&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt; &lt;/em&gt;by Jessica Chivers.&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt; &lt;a href='https://vimeo.com/759174786'&gt;Watch five coachees&lt;/a&gt; talk about working with us&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt; &lt;a href='https://comebackcommunity.co.uk/introduce/'&gt;&lt;b&gt;Connect us to your HR team&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; - bring the Comeback Community™ employee experience to your workplace&lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt;</description>

Ask me a QHello Bright Minds. My guest today is  someone who wanted a platform to talk about her experience of continuing to work on and off during breast cancer treatment with the single goal of helping others find their way through this really difficult time. Tara Ferguson is an Associate Director within the People team of a medium sized bio-tech business. She’s worked in a number of different sectors and types of business, in roles ranging from People Business Partner to Lead Coa...

92. COMEBACK - Tara Ferguson - breast cancer - working through treatment - medically-induced menopause - how to stop women leaving in their 40s + 50s?

<a target="_blank" href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/1575013/open_sms">Ask me a Q</a>Hello Bright Minds, I hope you’re on good form and thank you for choosing to listen to this episode of Comeback Coach. Dan Hewitt is the Head of Talent Management and Development at Ocado, the UK online-only supermarket HQ-ed in Hertfordshire just down the road from me.When Dan came back from a few months of paternity leave he thought he was going to stay in a comfortable place professionally, not striving for the next job. This was so he could focus on family, but that was not to be and Dan moved into a bigger, stretch role. REFERENCES FROM THE EPISODE <ul><li>Summary paper of <a href='http://www.erikdehaan.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Erik-de-Haan_BC486-Coaching-Today-October-2023_proofing_V7_.pdf'>Erik De Haan’s meta-analysis of coaching</a> using only randomised controlled trials. </li><li><a href='https://journals.aom.org/doi/10.5465/amle.2022.0107 '>What Can We Know about the Effectiveness of Coaching? A Meta-Analysis Based Only on Randomized Controlled Trials </a></li></ul> MORE FOR YOU <ul> <li>DM Jessica on instagram <a href='https://www.instagram.com/comebackcommuk/'>@comebackcommuk</a> </li> <li>Get <a href='https://www.subscribepage.com/comebackcommunity'>Caremail </a> (free, every other Sunday at 7am)</li> <li>Read <a href='https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1848503199?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=wwwbeyoubutbe-21&amp;link_code=as3&amp;camp=2506&amp;creative=9298&amp;creativeASIN=1848503199'>Mothers Work! How to Get a Grip on Guilt and Make a Smooth Return to Work</a> by Jessica Chivers.</li> <li> <a href='https://vimeo.com/759174786'>Watch five coachees</a> talk about working with us</li> <li> <a href='https://comebackcommunity.co.uk/introduce/'>Connect us to your HR team</a> - bring the Comeback Community™ employee experience to your workplace</li> </ul>

<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a target="_blank" href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/1575013/open_sms"&gt;Ask me a Q&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Hello Bright Minds, &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I hope you’re on good form and thank you for choosing to listen to this episode of Comeback Coach. Dan Hewitt is the Head of Talent Management and Development at Ocado, the UK online-only supermarket HQ-ed in Hertfordshire just down the road from me.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;When Dan came back from a few months of paternity leave he thought he was going to stay in a comfortable place professionally, not striving for the next job. This was so he could focus on family, but that was not to be and Dan moved into a bigger, stretch role.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;REFERENCES FROM THE EPISODE&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Summary paper of &lt;a href='http://www.erikdehaan.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Erik-de-Haan_BC486-Coaching-Today-October-2023_proofing_V7_.pdf'&gt;Erik De Haan’s meta-analysis of coaching&lt;/a&gt; using only randomised controlled trials.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href='https://journals.aom.org/doi/10.5465/amle.2022.0107 '&gt;What Can We Know about the Effectiveness of Coaching? A Meta-Analysis Based Only on Randomized Controlled Trials &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;MORE FOR YOU&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt;DM Jessica on instagram &lt;a href='https://www.instagram.com/comebackcommuk/'&gt;&lt;b&gt;@comebackcommuk&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;Get &lt;a href='https://www.subscribepage.com/comebackcommunity'&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;em&gt;Caremail &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;em&gt; &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/b&gt;(free, every other Sunday at 7am)&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;Read &lt;a href='https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1848503199?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;tag=wwwbeyoubutbe-21&amp;amp;link_code=as3&amp;amp;camp=2506&amp;amp;creative=9298&amp;amp;creativeASIN=1848503199'&gt;&lt;em&gt;Mothers Work! How to Get a Grip on Guilt and Make a Smooth Return to Work&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt; &lt;/em&gt;by Jessica Chivers.&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt; &lt;a href='https://vimeo.com/759174786'&gt;Watch five coachees&lt;/a&gt; talk about working with us&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt; &lt;a href='https://comebackcommunity.co.uk/introduce/'&gt;&lt;b&gt;Connect us to your HR team&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; - bring the Comeback Community™ employee experience to your workplace&lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt;</description>

Ask me a QHello Bright Minds, I hope you’re on good form and thank you for choosing to listen to this episode of Comeback Coach. Dan Hewitt is the Head of Talent Management and Development at Ocado, the UK online-only supermarket HQ-ed in Hertfordshire just down the road from me.When Dan came back from a few months of paternity leave he thought he was going to stay in a comfortable place professionally, not striving for the next job. This was so he could focus on family, but that was not...

91. COMEBACK – Dan Hewitt – Ocado – navigating the pull between career and family – having coaching – am I having impact at work?

<a target="_blank" href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/1575013/open_sms">Ask me a Q</a>Hello Bright Minds, this episode is inspired by the previous where my guest, Ramona Aning from Ketchum, talked about how her CEO is open about family time and downtime.    I&apos;m geeking out on &quot;psychological job control&quot; and &quot;segmentation norms&quot; which are talked about in a new paper in the Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology titled The competing influence of psychological job control on family-to-work conflict.   As ever, there are practical takeaways from the episode which include the five questions bosses can ask in team meetings and 1:1s to ensure their people are getting the downtime they need.    The paper I refer to was published in 2023 and can be found here: <a href='https://bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/joop.12426'>https://bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/joop.12426</a> MORE FOR YOU <ul> <li>DM Jessica on instagram <a href='https://www.instagram.com/comebackcommuk/'>@comebackcommuk</a> </li> <li>Get <a href='https://www.subscribepage.com/comebackcommunity'>Caremail </a> (free, every other Sunday at 7am)</li> <li>Read <a href='https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1848503199?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=wwwbeyoubutbe-21&amp;link_code=as3&amp;camp=2506&amp;creative=9298&amp;creativeASIN=1848503199'>Mothers Work! How to Get a Grip on Guilt and Make a Smooth Return to Work</a> by Jessica Chivers.</li> <li> <a href='https://vimeo.com/759174786'>Watch five coachees</a> talk about working with us</li> <li> <a href='https://comebackcommunity.co.uk/introduce/'>Connect us to your HR team</a> - bring the Comeback Community™ employee experience to your workplace</li> </ul>

<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a target="_blank" href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/1575013/open_sms"&gt;Ask me a Q&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Hello Bright Minds, this episode is inspired by the previous where my guest, Ramona Aning from Ketchum, talked about how her CEO is open about family time and downtime.&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt; I&amp;apos;m geeking out on &amp;quot;psychological job control&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;segmentation norms&amp;quot; which are talked about in a new paper in the Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology titled &lt;b&gt;&lt;em&gt;The competing influence of psychological job control on family-to-work conflict.&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/b&gt;As ever, there are practical takeaways from the episode which include the five questions bosses can ask in team meetings and 1:1s to ensure their people are getting the downtime they need.&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt; The paper I refer to was published in 2023 and can be found here: &lt;a href='https://bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/joop.12426'&gt;https://bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/joop.12426&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;MORE FOR YOU&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt;DM Jessica on instagram &lt;a href='https://www.instagram.com/comebackcommuk/'&gt;&lt;b&gt;@comebackcommuk&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;Get &lt;a href='https://www.subscribepage.com/comebackcommunity'&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;em&gt;Caremail &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;em&gt; &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/b&gt;(free, every other Sunday at 7am)&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;Read &lt;a href='https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1848503199?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;tag=wwwbeyoubutbe-21&amp;amp;link_code=as3&amp;amp;camp=2506&amp;amp;creative=9298&amp;amp;creativeASIN=1848503199'&gt;&lt;em&gt;Mothers Work! How to Get a Grip on Guilt and Make a Smooth Return to Work&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt; &lt;/em&gt;by Jessica Chivers.&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt; &lt;a href='https://vimeo.com/759174786'&gt;Watch five coachees&lt;/a&gt; talk about working with us&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt; &lt;a href='https://comebackcommunity.co.uk/introduce/'&gt;&lt;b&gt;Connect us to your HR team&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; - bring the Comeback Community™ employee experience to your workplace&lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt;</description>

Ask me a QHello Bright Minds, this episode is inspired by the previous where my guest, Ramona Aning from Ketchum, talked about how her CEO is open about family time and downtime.  I'm geeking out on "psychological job control" and "segmentation norms" which are talked about in a new paper in the Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology titled The competing influence of psychological job control on family-to-work conflict. As ever, there are practical takeaways from...

90. JUST JESSICA - Boundaries - psychological job control - why bosses need to talk about downtime (but not tell us not to work weekends and evenings)

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