How to PRETEND you care about women at work

Provide training opportunities out of hours

Offering additional training and networking opportunities shows that you care about supporting and developing your female employees. However offering these opportunities outside of working hours can potentially...

Thriving Talent Diversity & Inclusion Experts share their insights about 2021…

It’s been another year of epic highs and chasmic lows as the effects of the Pandemic continue to ripple through all aspects of our lives. 

At Thriving Talent, it has been a year of inclusion. A year of striving for and ...

Accompanying the transition to parenthood requires a change in assumptions, beliefs, behaviour, and motivations for the parents concerned.

It is probably one of the most challenging and exciting transitions for a woman, amplified by many mental and physical changes and unknowns, with associated fea...

It’s the moment you’ve spent years preparing for. All eyes are on you, waiting to see if you succeed or fail. The pressure is immense. Everything is riding on your performance. 

How would you fare in this situation? The answer has a lot to do with mental fitness. 

Defined as how quickly you can sh...

Some time ago I was talking to an old friend who has recently retired from his role as Chief Operating Officer in a global organisation and the subject of gender parity at all levels of leadership came up. 

He shared how his company had invested millions in training over the years and yet the reali...

By Simon Lunt

I was sitting with a CEO in a meeting a few weeks ago and notwithstanding the novelty of it being face to face (at a distance of course), something other than the stinging sensation of the hand sanitiser in reception struck me...

We were discussing their sales and marketing team memb...

Even pre-pandemic, most working parents would have said that attempting to achieve a healthy work-life balance is challenging. Now it's even harder. 

Working from home during 2020 blurred the lines between our personal and professional lives. As we transition back to the office and a new form of 'h...

We all know that networking and being visible at work is a key enabler for advancing and expanding your career. We also know that eating healthy foods, exercising, practicing mindfulness is also critical for a long and healthy life….but how often do we make this a priority?!

Having worked with many...

Written by Ian Dinwiddy, Partner at Thriving Talent

As we recently celebrated Father’s Day across Europe, now is a perfect time to shine a light on how Covid has fundamentally changed dads' attitudes and expectations about how to balance work and fatherhood.

The pandemic led to Dads doing more at ...

Written by Caroline Dykes, Operations Manager at Thriving Talent and a qualified Sophrologist

With the global pandemic, we are finding ourselves living in the midst of an incredibly challenging period of time. People around the world are feeling more stressed than ever before, which is where the ho...