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Emotional intelligence (EI) is the ability to understand and manage your own emotions, and those of the people around you. Having emotional intelligence as a Leader is essential for success, especially during periods of change. Recognising your own stress when the team will be changing as a result o...

Instead of placing focus on how to support mothers who just had a baby or needs childcare, many companies tackle maternity as managing the “problem” of pregnancy, and its outcome: demanding babies, needy children, teenagers who need time and attention.

And yet we wonder why women are absent at the ...

This is the final article in a two part series on inclusive leadership (click here to read part one). In this piece we talk about systemic and cultural change: what approaches to process can one introduce to make the system more inclusive?

Firstly, we must understand that diversity is not just a ta...

This is the first article in a two part series on inclusive leadership. In this piece, we discuss the importance of helping your people become self-aware and getting curious about their talents and skills which are not immediately obvious.  

Why should employers care?

Four global mega-trends are i...

Hindsight is a wonderful gift and a particularly helpful one if you are pregnant for the first time. At Thrive we would like to share some top tips with you on how you can best prepare for Motherhood, so that the transition is as smooth as it can be, with fewer unknowns and unhelpful surprises.

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Reconciling the needs of life at home and work is a challenge for employees all over the world, and more often than not we see companies lagging behind in making the changes necessary to support employees.

However some companies are paving the way in family-oriented initiatives and they deserve rec...

Unless you have been stuck in a Swiss nuclear bunker for the last 5 years, you will have at some point during your daily social media fix, come across the term Gender Bias. Whether you’re a man who craves more family time with his children (but your boss raises an eyebrow when you want to work from ...

Inclusiveness and gender parity is fortunately a key focus for astute organisations. One strategy deployed considers how to better support professionals during the challenging transition to parenthood; so that they feel it is possible to continue with professional aspirations and successfully juggle...

Is the current state of diversity in your workplace ‘could be better but not a priority right now?’ Perhaps your HR team has acknowledged the need for change but it’s a stale subject and nothing is moving forward.

It’s widely accepted that greater diversity and inclusion has a positive impact on or...

Is this known as “having it all”? Can you even have a career and family without the burden of guilt, overwhelm and fatigue? There isn’t a text book standard response to this. Why? Because everyone’s definition of “having it all” is unique and it’s based on your own exclusive value system and aspirat...