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Stop Trying to Choose a Career. Choose Your Next Two Years
Careers for graduates entering the workforce have shifted. How can young people rethink their futures to become more adaptable in a changing world?
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Age, Purpose and the Case for a Portfolio Career
Older applicants provide experience, adaptability, and emotional stability, yet are being overlooked for roles. As retirement becomes less of an obvious goal, a new question arises: how can work change so people can keep contributing in ways that are sustainable? Designing a portfolio career may provide an answer.
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360-Degree Feedback For Individual And Team Effectiveness
Explore how 360-degree feedback can support leadership development, succession planning and team effectiveness. Learn how tailored feedback tools, personalised coaching and data-driven insights can help individuals and organisations identify strengths, address development areas and create lasting positive change.
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The Portfolio Career: Designing What Comes Next
The portfolio career provides a multidimensional model for experienced professionals to balance paid work, contribution, and personal fulfilment, whilst also providing both excitement and control over the shape of working life. This article provides examples from multiple industries to display how creating a portfolio career is not just semi-retirement, but a strategic reinvention.
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Mentoring, Women and Career Progression
External mentoring gives women independent, personalised support through key career transitions, from returning after maternity leave to stepping into leadership. Drawing on research from McKinsey, LeanIn.Org, Catalyst and the UK Government, this article explores how mentoring strengthens confidence, builds influence, supports career progression and helps organisations create a more inclusive leadership pipeline.
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Why Taking a Holiday Can Feel Like Another Workplace Deadline
For many employees, the days leading up to a holiday are filled with longer hours, mounting deadlines and the pressure to leave everything in order. Yet genuine recovery requires more than time away—it depends on clear boundaries, supportive leadership and a workplace culture that values rest as a key driver of sustainable performance. Explore why switching off matters for wellbeing and how organisations can help employees return refreshed and ready to perform.
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Mentoring: can you afford not to invest?
As competition for talent intensifies, organisations need to invest in more than recruitment. External mentoring provides employees with independent guidance, builds confidence, strengthens leadership capability, and supports long-term retention. Discover why mentoring is becoming a key part of successful talent and succession strategies.
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What Business Can Learn from World Cup Winners
Only eight countries have ever won the FIFA World Cup, despite more than 80 nations competing since 1930. While resources and talent matter, lasting success comes from something deeper: strong systems, inclusive cultures, effective development pathways, and the resilience to keep improving over time. Here’s what organisations can learn from football’s most consistently successful teams.
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What Generational Difference Can Teach Us About Work
Do organisations really need a Gen Z strategy, or is the bigger challenge helping different generations work well together? Drawing on research from King’s College London, the London School of Economics and insights from 10Eighty’s six-generation workforce, this article explores how shared values, purpose and belonging can turn generational differences into a source of stronger collaboration, innovation and performance.
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The Interview Starts Before the First Question
The interview starts long before the first question. Discover the psychology behind first impressions, body language, workplace behaviour, and the subtle signals that can influence interview success.
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Gender Equity in Leadership: Overcoming Unseen Barriers at Work
Why are women still underrepresented in leadership despite the proven business benefits of diversity? Explore the unseen workplace barriers shaping gender equity, from leadership stereotypes to unequal care expectations.
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Rethinking HR: The Rise of the Portfolio Career
Discover how portfolio careers are transforming HR, as automation, flexibility, and demand for specialist expertise reshape the future of the HR profession.
