in my prime is a specialist consultancy offering advice, strategic guidance and practical input to employers, marketing organizations and policy makers on issues relating to the employment and management of older workers, age diversity and the needs of the mature market.
Our aim is to assist employers to benefit from the strengths and opportunities inherent in their older workforce, helping them to devise, implement and evaluate new ways of managing and developing what can often be a much under-utilised and under-valued resource. We also help policy makers and marketers to understand the aspirations, values and drivers of the generation branded "baby boomers".
Our focus is much wider than age discrimination or pre-retirement planning; we believe that successful recruitment, retention and engagement of older workers comes from matching the unique needs of each business with the particular requirements and aspirations of older employees themselves, thereby creating new policies and practices that will benefit both. For more see www.inmyprime.co.uk
15/02/2012 - 15:27 - 192 reads
A recent joint report by the National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF) and the Pensions Institute (PI) at Cass Business School has found that half a million people retiring each year are being dramatically short-changed in terms of their total future pension income because of overwhelming obstacles that prevent them getting the best deal.
07/02/2012 - 13:04 - 269 reads
A recent report in Scientific American leads one to conclude that older people might be better going for speed rather than accuracy in workplace decision making in order to refute ageist stereotypes about declining performance.
20/01/2012 - 14:19 - 219 reads
This year sees the launch of the NEST (National Employment Savings Trust) pension scheme providing a route into pension saving that to date has been denied to many or not pursued by many. We wish it well and hope that individuals do really see the benefit of saving for their later life whether that will truly be retirement or will be some mixture of work and supplementary income provided by a pension.
01/07/2011 - 09:32 - 229 reads
Back in 1992 an academic article* was published examining differences in the rates of career progression between male and female managers. It took the approach of examining the importance for female managers of “doing all the right stuff” in terms of the behaviours that their male counterparts demonstrated that got them promoted (e.g. getting a similar education as the men, maintaining similar family responsibilities, working in similar industries, not moving in and out of the work force, not removing their names from consideration for transfers).
25/05/2010 - 08:30 - 262 reads
Following on from my previous blog relating to the general need for a vastly improved level of financial literacy across the nation as a whole, it is reasonable to ask why any such initiative should be linked to the workplace rather than through some other mechanism, particularly for smaller businesses already drowning in “add-ons” to the basic notions of trying to trade and make a surplus at the end of the week.
