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Don't leave us! How to engage and retain working parents - LinkedIn Live replay caring and career managing working parents parental leave working parents Jul 28, 2023

At Thriving Talent, we understand that juggling a career and caregiving responsibilities can be challenging. Despite progress in parental leave policies, many organizations still grapple with retaining and developing their talented pool of parents. The "caring and career crash" phenomenon...

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How employers can easily foster a culture of caring & career advancing women caring and career fatherhood managing working parents maternity leave parental leave return to work working parents Jul 01, 2022

Organisations who demonstrate that they value caring are a magnet for attracting and retaining talent.

Yet, what does “caring” mean?

Historically, caring has often been a role associated largely with women and is often reinforced with gender stereotypes reinforced in society, culture...

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Are you meeting your employees' expectations? caring and career fatherhood managing working parents maternity leave parental leave return to work working parents Jul 01, 2022

There is no denying that the impact of COVD-19 brought many challenges to both individuals and businesses, large and small. However, it has also driven new working practices and mindsets that offer an incredible opportunity for organisations to foster inclusive cultures and equality at...

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How To Pretend You Care About Women At Work d&i strategies gender diversity inclusive leadership managing working parents motherhood working parents Feb 02, 2022

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...

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Juggling Fatherhood and Professional Aspiration career development d&i strategies fatherhood work life harmony working parents Nov 08, 2021

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...

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Five Misconceptions That Make Work-Life Balance Unattainable For Working Parents d&i strategies work life harmony working parents Aug 02, 2021

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...

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Why it's important to remain visible in a hybrid working model - now more than ever! career development confidence building work life harmony working parents Jul 06, 2021

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...

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The New Balance Of Work And Fatherhood Post Covid fatherhood flexible working remote working working parents Jun 10, 2021
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...

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What will the World Economic Forum 2021 Gender Gap Report tell us this year? advancing women diversity and inclusion working parents Feb 19, 2021

...and how can enabling Caring and Career accelerate progress?

At Davos 2021 in January, there was much focus on the projects and initiatives of the World Economic Forum: Hardwiring Gender Parity in the Future of Work and Closing the Gender Gap Accelerators. 

Last year in...

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My Purpose & How It Supports My Leadership diversity and inclusion inclusive leadership working parents Nov 02, 2020

By Deborah Croft

I recently tuned into one of the excellent sessions at the LEAD Conference on the subject of Inclusive Leadership by Tim Munden who echoed our philosophy at Thriving Talent that in 21st Century Leadership, having a clear purpose which you can stand by...

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