Return to work programme: Sometimes you have to abandon other people’s programmes and implement your own. One of the benefits of entrepreneurship is that I can design my own schedule. One of the dis-benefits is that I can still be at the mercy of others agenda. Therefore today’s programme involved the rewrite of Ten, TEN (!) […]
Did you give yourself some return to work credit? It’s so easy to discount the sheer level of adjustment that returning to work requires of us. Having been too unwell to engage in paid employment for a couple of years in my thirties, in my mid-forties I find myself in a polar opposite situation. “My world is […]
During a return to work interview, I made an unexpected discovery about where my fear actually lay regarding this transition. Whilst I had heard others voice their fears about ‘failure’ or ‘letting others down’ or ‘getting it wrong’, I discovered that I was fearful of success!!! That. Sounded. So. Arrogant….. but the words were out […]
In the HSE Return To work Form there is this guidance: “If staff take time off work because of work related stress, getting them back to work as quickly as possible is important………. In general, people find it more difficult to return to work after a long-term absence.” In general, I have to concur because […]
Return To work Definition: For each of us, a return to work will have a different definition. What they will all have in common is the impact of a routine foisted upon us from the outside. I don’t know about you, but when I have been out of routine and I regain one, I am usually […]
Managing your return to work, be it post summer holidays, returning to academia, post illness or maternity leave, can be conflicted and feel tumultuous. There can be equal amounts of excitement and fear, because, whatever type of return to work this is for you, things will have changed in your absence. Don’t forget that you […]