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Time to Retire Retirement?
Ten-years from now 80% of the native born American workforce will be over 50! When these workers start to retire there will not be nearly enough young people in the workforce to take their place.

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Negotiate a Flexible Work Schedule
Are you feeling conflicted about the demands of work and family? More companies are beginning to see the benefits of offering their employees flexible work arrangements, such as part-time work, job sharing, compressed work weeks, telecommuting, and flexible schedules.
Entrepreneurs Sometimes It Pays To Be Flexible – Sometimes It Does Not
Entrepreneurs are often told to be flexible in their approach to business, but often it is imperative that you are NOT flexible. Here’s a few examples.
Positioning Basics
There is no one-size-fits-all approach to strategy and positioning. Anyone who says there's a one-size-fits-all approach simply doesn't get it. Strategic positioning is more art than science. And each and every client is a new canvas. Great positioning is as unique as every situation. You have to be flexible, nimble. My ‘methodology' is more a way of thinking about things. I don't really have a checklist or set of step-by-step instructions.

Top tips on how to manage flexible workers
Flexible working is all the rage and many companies are using it to get round the recession. It saves on overheads, helps recruitment and retention of experienced staff and reduces absence. But what are the barriers and how do you manage flexible workers? Here are some tips on how to make flexible working work for you.
Flexi-budget - Planning for uncertain times
During these uncertain times, companies need to maintain the discipline of good planning and budgeting, but how can you plan and budget when the goalposts keep moving? Orchard Growth Partners is rolling out a flexible planning and budgeting methodology which allows companies to prepare flexible and layered budgets.

The Manager's Art and Skill of Managing Exceptions
It's vital for any manager to create a disciplined approach to the way they manage their team. And, of course, show they can be flexible too, so there's the paradox...

Any time, any place, anywhere
Flexible working is normally conceived as working part time, compressed hours or starting earlier/finishing later. But what if your work was so flexible that it meant you could move to the other side of the world with virtually no impact? That is what Lysette Parbhu has done. She set up her ethical children's clothes company, Babies in Sheep's Clothing, in the UK and has just moved to South Africa for her husband's business and is still able to work more or less as normal around her two children.

Big Bird’s Guide to Change Management - Learn your A, B, C, Ds
In the 1950s, psychologist Albert Ellis introduced Rational Therapy in which people were taught the A-B-C-D approach for dealing with uncomfortable situations. The A-B-C-D approach states that when a person is confronted with an adversity A, their beliefs B, will influence the way they respond to that adversity and lead to emotional and behavioral consequences C. If the beliefs B, are rigid, absolute, and unrealistic, the consequences C, will likely be self-defeating and destructive. If the beliefs B, are flexible and constructive, the consequences C, will likely be self-helping and constructive. People can change their lives and their consequences by D, disputing and challenging their beliefs.
Rebuilding your reward strategy
In the middle of change it can be easy to overlook the impact that restructuring has on reward strategy. We all know that having up-to-date and flexible people practices is vital to support business objectives, but many businesses forget to review their reward approach as their business grows and changes. Here's our six stage model for checking that your reward systems are still up to the job:

The Power of Deciding
I believe and have often said that we are all one quality decision away from anything we want. A quality decision is a certain state of mind. It is not the process of deciding to try, attempt, or pursue something until it becomes difficult. A quality decision means that you have firmly set your course. You are no longer flexible on your mission; however, you may be flexible on your method.

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