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Inclusivity isn’t just a tick-box; it’s an attitude that makes your organisation welcoming and safe for every single person who works there. If you’re looking to build a more inclusive culture, but don’t know where to begin, L&D is the natural starting point.
Integrating inclusivity goals into your Learning and Development strategy is a great way to make sure that you’re building an inclusive culture on a day-to-day, moment-to-moment basis. This isn’t something that simply happens overnight; it’s a constant process of planning, listening, and iterating – and you can lean on technology to support you throughout.
Here’s 4 easy ways that Thrive supports your inclusivity initiatives.
The first way to build an inclusive culture is to support these initiatives with engaging, relevant resources. Luckily, Thrive has you covered.
Thrive Content (Thrive’s off-the-shelf, ready-made learning content solution) has been researched, designed and written by a team of experts and storytellers who prioritise inclusivity in all their materials. Not only is every piece of content written with inclusivity in mind, there’s also a huge array of resources on relevant topics like diversity, equal opportunities, mental health, and neurodiversity.
Just take it from Thrive customer Places for People, who implemented Thrive Content with the express purpose of supporting their DEI initiatives. As the UK’s largest social enterprise, DEI has always been one of their biggest priorities; they were simply lacking the learning content to bolster it.
Collaborating closely with the Thrive Content team, Places for People built their new learning library packed full of relevant, engaging resources. The implementation process was smooth and efficient, lasting just 12 weeks – and at the end of the process, their DEI strategy took on a whole new shape, supported by an extensive library of content.
"Absolutely, I'd recommend Thrive. The campaigns are pretty much pre-empting what is going on in the world right now, and what changes. They're always on the ball."
- Nicole Egglestone, EDI Officer
Creating an inclusive culture is a year-round endeavour, but one way you can add some extra impact to these efforts is through the use of campaigns. Thrive gives you the ability to create campaigns around specific awareness days, or your own unique initiatives.
Thrive customer Burger King UK has used Thrive’s campaign functionality to raise awareness of different causes throughout the year, staying true to the objective with which they launched Thrive: “Educate, communicate, and celebrate.”
The team at Burger King UK run monthly campaigns with Thrive, pulling together a team of content, tech and subject matter experts. Quarterly plans ensure that every campaign has clear objectives that are aligned across the entire business and different platforms, including their ‘BK hub’ comms platform. A few examples of campaigns include: Learn at Work Week, Mental Health awareness, Pride, Women's Health Week, and so much more.
Women's Health Week took place in October 2024, and covered key topics such as breast cancer awareness, menopause awareness, and baby loss awareness. Using Thrive Content, Rachel Sellars (Learning & Development Manager at Burger King UK) and the team were able to identify many key stats showing that these types of topics impact the entire workforce, regardless of gender or background.
Rachel said:
“I’m most proud of the impact of the Women's Health Month campaign. The personal feedback and the ripples that were felt across the organisation were huge, and it was both a powerful and empowering campaign across the whole business.”
One of the benefits of a digital learning strategy is the fact that it totally removes the need for clunky, inaccessible, “one-size-fits-all” training materials like handbooks. Beyond just digitising, choosing the right digital platform is also imperative to an accessible strategy.
Thrive is built with accessibility in mind, with a suite of features designed to facilitate barrier-free learning. Accessible features include a zoom function for better readability, high contrast themes and colour adjustments for light and dark modes. The platform is also compatible with screen readers like NVDA, JAWS, and VoiceOver, along with speech-to-text tools like Microsoft Voice Access.
One customer who took full advantage of Thrive’s accessibility features to support their staff was Inspired Entertainment. Previously, they’d train their customer service team with large, unwieldy manuals – which proved difficult, ineffective, and most importantly, inaccessible. Communications would often get lost in the shuffle – and for their incredibly busy 60-strong customer service team, thumbing through a handbook with a customer on the other end of the phone wasn’t an efficient way to do their jobs.
Through switching to Thrive, they were able to digitise all their training and upskill their workforce from the comfort of their desktop. They used Thrive to launch a “Skill of the Month” club in order to regularly introduce the entire business to new skills they may need to develop. This has resulted in 120,000 content views since launch and 80% active monthly users.
Thrive helps you facilitate employee support groups and networks, connecting people across the business with social-first features.
One customer who used Thrive to support employees was Specsavers. They’ve always been serious about their commitment to diversity and inclusion, having rolled out a series of employee networks to support their diverse team’s needs and interests. Everything from LGBTQIA+ advocacy to menopause awareness is explored within the various networks, giving each employee the chance to voice their opinions and feel a sense of belonging at Specsavers.
The fact that Thrive covers so many subjects relevant to these colleague networks made the partnership even more of a no-brainer: resources on neurodiversity, LGBTQIA+ issues, Black History Month, mental health and more slot perfectly into Specsavers’ campaign calendar.
Colleagues are supported throughout the year, with access to campaigns at the time when they’re the most relevant. And, as a company on a mission to become more sustainable, Thrive’s climate change resources proved incredibly useful and popular.
In the words of Charlotte Richfield-Betteridge, Design Manager within Retail L&D at Specsavers:
“We absolutely love working with Thrive. It’s like having an extra designer in our team, which means we can easily access the content we need, when we need it. We know it’s going to be suitable for our learners, fun, and engaging.”
Engagement has been brilliant - with one particular piece of content garnering over 13,000 hits, and consistent five star reviews across Thrive Content.
As we mentioned at the beginning, an inclusive culture isn’t something that happens overnight. It’s a slow and gradual shift that requires consistency and patience. It requires you to put in the work – but you also need the right tools with which to do that work.
Thrive not only supports your DEI initiatives, but also helps create a supportive, engaging and diverse learning environment. If you’d like to see how we’d help your organisation do just that, book a Thrive demo today.
Explore what impact Thrive could make for your team and your learners today.
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Inclusivity isn’t just a tick-box; it’s an attitude that makes your organisation welcoming and safe for every single person who works there. If you’re looking to build a more inclusive culture, but don’t know where to begin, L&D is the natural starting point.
Integrating inclusivity goals into your Learning and Development strategy is a great way to make sure that you’re building an inclusive culture on a day-to-day, moment-to-moment basis. This isn’t something that simply happens overnight; it’s a constant process of planning, listening, and iterating – and you can lean on technology to support you throughout.
Here’s 4 easy ways that Thrive supports your inclusivity initiatives.
The first way to build an inclusive culture is to support these initiatives with engaging, relevant resources. Luckily, Thrive has you covered.
Thrive Content (Thrive’s off-the-shelf, ready-made learning content solution) has been researched, designed and written by a team of experts and storytellers who prioritise inclusivity in all their materials. Not only is every piece of content written with inclusivity in mind, there’s also a huge array of resources on relevant topics like diversity, equal opportunities, mental health, and neurodiversity.
Just take it from Thrive customer Places for People, who implemented Thrive Content with the express purpose of supporting their DEI initiatives. As the UK’s largest social enterprise, DEI has always been one of their biggest priorities; they were simply lacking the learning content to bolster it.
Collaborating closely with the Thrive Content team, Places for People built their new learning library packed full of relevant, engaging resources. The implementation process was smooth and efficient, lasting just 12 weeks – and at the end of the process, their DEI strategy took on a whole new shape, supported by an extensive library of content.
"Absolutely, I'd recommend Thrive. The campaigns are pretty much pre-empting what is going on in the world right now, and what changes. They're always on the ball."
- Nicole Egglestone, EDI Officer
Creating an inclusive culture is a year-round endeavour, but one way you can add some extra impact to these efforts is through the use of campaigns. Thrive gives you the ability to create campaigns around specific awareness days, or your own unique initiatives.
Thrive customer Burger King UK has used Thrive’s campaign functionality to raise awareness of different causes throughout the year, staying true to the objective with which they launched Thrive: “Educate, communicate, and celebrate.”
The team at Burger King UK run monthly campaigns with Thrive, pulling together a team of content, tech and subject matter experts. Quarterly plans ensure that every campaign has clear objectives that are aligned across the entire business and different platforms, including their ‘BK hub’ comms platform. A few examples of campaigns include: Learn at Work Week, Mental Health awareness, Pride, Women's Health Week, and so much more.
Women's Health Week took place in October 2024, and covered key topics such as breast cancer awareness, menopause awareness, and baby loss awareness. Using Thrive Content, Rachel Sellars (Learning & Development Manager at Burger King UK) and the team were able to identify many key stats showing that these types of topics impact the entire workforce, regardless of gender or background.
Rachel said:
“I’m most proud of the impact of the Women's Health Month campaign. The personal feedback and the ripples that were felt across the organisation were huge, and it was both a powerful and empowering campaign across the whole business.”
One of the benefits of a digital learning strategy is the fact that it totally removes the need for clunky, inaccessible, “one-size-fits-all” training materials like handbooks. Beyond just digitising, choosing the right digital platform is also imperative to an accessible strategy.
Thrive is built with accessibility in mind, with a suite of features designed to facilitate barrier-free learning. Accessible features include a zoom function for better readability, high contrast themes and colour adjustments for light and dark modes. The platform is also compatible with screen readers like NVDA, JAWS, and VoiceOver, along with speech-to-text tools like Microsoft Voice Access.
One customer who took full advantage of Thrive’s accessibility features to support their staff was Inspired Entertainment. Previously, they’d train their customer service team with large, unwieldy manuals – which proved difficult, ineffective, and most importantly, inaccessible. Communications would often get lost in the shuffle – and for their incredibly busy 60-strong customer service team, thumbing through a handbook with a customer on the other end of the phone wasn’t an efficient way to do their jobs.
Through switching to Thrive, they were able to digitise all their training and upskill their workforce from the comfort of their desktop. They used Thrive to launch a “Skill of the Month” club in order to regularly introduce the entire business to new skills they may need to develop. This has resulted in 120,000 content views since launch and 80% active monthly users.
Thrive helps you facilitate employee support groups and networks, connecting people across the business with social-first features.
One customer who used Thrive to support employees was Specsavers. They’ve always been serious about their commitment to diversity and inclusion, having rolled out a series of employee networks to support their diverse team’s needs and interests. Everything from LGBTQIA+ advocacy to menopause awareness is explored within the various networks, giving each employee the chance to voice their opinions and feel a sense of belonging at Specsavers.
The fact that Thrive covers so many subjects relevant to these colleague networks made the partnership even more of a no-brainer: resources on neurodiversity, LGBTQIA+ issues, Black History Month, mental health and more slot perfectly into Specsavers’ campaign calendar.
Colleagues are supported throughout the year, with access to campaigns at the time when they’re the most relevant. And, as a company on a mission to become more sustainable, Thrive’s climate change resources proved incredibly useful and popular.
In the words of Charlotte Richfield-Betteridge, Design Manager within Retail L&D at Specsavers:
“We absolutely love working with Thrive. It’s like having an extra designer in our team, which means we can easily access the content we need, when we need it. We know it’s going to be suitable for our learners, fun, and engaging.”
Engagement has been brilliant - with one particular piece of content garnering over 13,000 hits, and consistent five star reviews across Thrive Content.
As we mentioned at the beginning, an inclusive culture isn’t something that happens overnight. It’s a slow and gradual shift that requires consistency and patience. It requires you to put in the work – but you also need the right tools with which to do that work.
Thrive not only supports your DEI initiatives, but also helps create a supportive, engaging and diverse learning environment. If you’d like to see how we’d help your organisation do just that, book a Thrive demo today.
Explore what impact Thrive could make for your team and your learners today.
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