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How to keep momentum in your mentoring scheme

Mentoring schemes are proving to be an increasingly valuable tool in the workplace, helping organisations to engage, retain and develop employees. But they also provide valuable learning opportunities...

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Teams, tweeting and Generation Y: why business should welcome ways of working from a new generation

Generation Y – those born between the early 1980s and the late 1990s – have been described as the iPod generation, Generation Me, ‘boomerang’ kids and the Peter Pan generation. Graduating from...

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Mind the generation gap: how managers can engage with Gen Y

Just as you can’t choose your family, so you can’t always choose your colleagues – and the generation gap can cause problems in both cases. Recent research carried out by career management company,...

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Businesses that support older workers will be rewarded with a ‘full house’ of experience, dedication and energy

As lifespans lengthen, portfolio careers become more popular, and households feel the squeeze of a double-dip recession, many people are feeling the attraction – or necessity – of working through...

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Staff will put up with a lot at work - if they know why

We have been talking about work-life balance and building business cases for organisations to embrace it against a backdrop of economic, technological and social/ demographic change for well over a...

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