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Gareth Cartman

I'm a marketer with a background in HR, two professions I think should spend a lot more time talking to each other. As an employer, I'm fascinated by talent development & management. As a Dad, it's the same, but more stressful.
Picture of Gareth Cartman

Gareth Cartman

I'm a marketer with a background in HR, two professions I think should spend a lot more time talking to each other. As an employer, I'm fascinated by talent development & management. As a Dad, it's the same, but more stressful.

Make The Most Of Employee Mentoring

OK, so you’ve decided to invest in youth, you’ve decided to train people and build up a talent pipeline. You’ve made a long-term plan. But that’s what most football clubs do, and they seem to fail all the time. Our record (in the UK) of bringing through young footballers is pretty awful — and a number of managers have pointed out that the mentoring system in Germany and Spain is more effective. Are we guilty of the same thing in the workplace? Quite possibly … so if you’re going to get into mentoring, how can you make the most of it?

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Ignore Youth, Destroy The Economy?

I hate to sound all Michael Jackson, but children, they’re the future, man. Yes, they are. The sad thing is that despite the roaring job market, we’re still not employing them at a rate that would be healthy to our economy. In the UK, 737,000 young people between the ages of 16 and 24 are classified as unemployed. That’s 16.2% — and in Europe the problem gets worse. In Spain, the figure has touched 57%. The employment market is not dissimilar from the housing market. If you don’t let people onto the bottom rung of the ladder, houses at the top

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The Link Between Technology And Retention

We do all we can to influence retention, or at least, we think we do. We measure engagement, we carry out exit interviews, we even have performance management programs. But in today’s technology-led world, are we missing a trick in the workplace? Is our talent leaving us because the competition is using better technology in-house? Is our talent leaving in frustration at our inability to keep up with the times? Quite possibly. The Link Between Home and the Workplace Talk to anyone in IT at the moment, and BYOD is more than just an acronym, it’s enough to keep them awake

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Is Technology Making HR More Innovative?

Most people don’t associate HR with innovation. They’d associate HR with the things that traditionally we have been good at — rules, policies, administration. And they they’d be wrong. The first wave of innovation centered around a more business-focused HR function, in which HR developed as a business partner. This was something of a revolution, although its application rarely worked as well as was hoped (except in larger organizations) — in theory, it aligned HR to business needs. And, eventually, business outcomes. However, it was needs that were at the heart of the discussion. What’s the business strategy? Are we looking

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