Category: Maternity

Employee Guide to Navigating Maternity Transitions

Delighted to be partnering with Public Affairs Ireland on this new course offering: https://www.pai.ie/pre-maternity-course-employee-guide-to-navigating-maternity-transitions/

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Managing Maternity Leave; Establishing a Workplace Strategy

Recent article published on Public Affairs Ireland:https://www.pai.ie/managing-maternity-leave-establishing-a-workplace-strategy/

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Irish Independent Feature May 2018

Playing catch up a little here as it’s been a busy few months! If you missed our feature in the Irish Independent in May you can read it here.

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Building a Gender Inclusive Workplace

Gender Diversity & Inclusion and Gender Equality are hot business topics at the moment, with an ever-increasing body of research demonstrating the significant productivity and ‘bottom-line’ benefits of having a healthy gender balance at all grades, levels and disciplines in an organisation. For example, the recent research from McKinsey and […]

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Sunday Business Post Article

Thrilled to be featured in the Sunday Business Post today. You can read the article here. Want to learn more about transition coaching and creating inclusive workplace practices? Get in touch here. #sundaybusinesspost #transitioncoach #maternitycoach #thrivethroughchange #hr #femaleleadership

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Gender Pay Gap Symposium

I was privileged to attend the Gender Pay Gap Symposium in Dublin earlier this month, here’s my summary of the event: http://herizon.ie/2018/01/16/gender-pay-gap-symposium-10-january-2018/ If you would like to learn more about inclusive workplace practices, maternity coaching and career returners, please get in touch claire@strengthwithin.ie, www.strengthwithin.ie. You can read out Gender Pay Gap consultation submission […]

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Successfully Managing Maternity Leave

Originally posted on linkedin – see article here 10 Tips for Line Managers, HR and Business Leaders In an ideal world, all expectant parents would be offered coaching and holistic supports to help them to successfully navigate the massive professional and personal transition of becoming a parent and taking a […]

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Reciprocity at Work – Disrupt HR Dublin

I was delighted to speak at Ireland’s first very DisruptHR event earlier this month. My talk was about how organisations can protect female leadership pipelines by building reciprocal relationships with their employees. Essentially, if we want our employees to thrive when they’re at work we need to support them to […]

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October News & Update

Hello there, it’s been a while! Time is flying by and I can’t believe we are well into October already. When I started this blog I committed to a new post every week, possibly every fortnight but have been MIA now for well over a month so might need to […]

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Measures to tackle the Gender Pay Gap

In August this year the Department of Justice and Equality commenced a public consultation, seeking views on measures to tackle the gender pay gap. Strength Within was delighted to be able to participate in this consultation, you can see our response here: Consultation Response – Strength Within – 4 October 2017

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