Most businesses will have some sort of mentoring system in place, no matter the size of the company or the industry in which it operates. Even those companies which don’t have formal, structured mentoring schemes in place will probably still have staff being mentored at different levels of the business. That’s because good managers mentor naturally every day as part of the way … [Read more...]
Restarting your career after a break…where do you start?
Katherine Forster hit the headlines recently when she became an intern. But she is no ordinary intern – she is a 48 year old mother of three who had taken a 15 year career break and bagged her new role by responding to a tweet from The Spectator magazine. While this story may astound you, Forster is not alone in trying to re-enter the workplace. According to research by PwC … [Read more...]
Golf and the Gender Pay Gap – a surprisingly effective partnership
Since the BBC revelations last month when the salaries bands for male and female TV personalities they employed were published, the Gender Pay Gap has become a headline grabber for all the wrong reasons – but what does it have to do with golf? In Scotland, quite a lot it seems and for a highly positive reason too. Recently there was an interesting debate as part of the … [Read more...]