‘This is not the Army:’ Why reverse mentoring can be beneficial for your business
Posted On May 10, 2018
What can we learn from millennials? The best flavor Frappuccino at Starbucks? What all the emojis mean? The appeal of a standing desk? Actually, at least one 60-something CEO believes there’s a lot more we can learn from millennials. That’s why he’s accepted one as a mentor. Mark Tibergien, CEO of Pershing Advisor Solutions, says reverse mentoring – younger employees mentoring their older peers — isn’t just a retention tool for hiring and keeping talented millennials. He and his millennial mentor, Pershing VP of Business Development Kayla Flaten, share how it has been a beneficial tool for both of them… Read More
Categories: Baby Boomers, Generation Y / Millennials, Podcast, Workplace
Defining and addressing sexual harassment: How to keep your workplace from becoming a hostile environment
Posted On May 2, 2018
They are some of the biggest names of entertainment – Today Show host Matt Lauer, Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein, former Saturday Night Live cast member/U.S. Senator Al Franken. All famous, all powerful, and all taken down by charges of sexual harassment. The advent of the #MeToo movement last year resulted in what seemed like an explosion of sexual harassment or assault allegations against famous actors, directors, politicians and others – and those were just the ones that were brought against famous people and therefore made the news. According to Melanie Miller, an expert on sexual harassment, it’s not that such… Read More
Categories: Podcast, Workplace
Climbing toward retirement: How do you know when you’re ready to attack the summit?
Posted On April 26, 2018
Many of us think of the years after 40 as all downhill. But Jeanne Thompson, head of Workplace Solutions Thought Leadership at Fidelity Investments, looks at them as an uphill climb – with retirement as the summit. Thompson, our guest for this episode of “What’s Working with Cam Marston,”sees three different phases of retirement: climbing, base camp and the summit. And she says research commissioned by Fidelity shows that the factors that drive our decisions about retirement and preparing for it and largely dictated by where we are on this expedition. Those in the climbing stage are 10 or more… Read More
Categories: Podcast, Retirement
Sticking to a succession plan and overcoming an ‘epidemic of spinelessness’
Posted On April 18, 2018
The first step to succession planning, as with so many other things, is realizing you have a problem. Succession planning expert Wayne Rivers, our guest in this week’s episode of “What’s Working with Cam Marston,”has seen it all play out many times: An aging business owner tells his son he’s going to turn the company over to him, but then can’t bring himself to let go of the reins and the company suffers in a self-inflicted limbo. With everything else in life edging out of his control – his health, his mobility, his kids’ lives, etc. – the business owner… Read More
Categories: Downloadable Media, Entrepreneurship, Generations, Podcast, Workplace
Dealing with the mid-career doldrums: Is it time for a change?
Posted On April 12, 2018
Are you tired of your job? No, I mean really tired – to the point of throwing away a career of twenty-some-odd years and starting over? You may be suffering from a fairly common phenomenon I call the mid-career doldrums. You’ve been doing the same job for a couple decades, you’re bored, and the achievements that once thrilled you don’t move the needle for you anymore. You crave something new, but stepping away from the familiar into the unknown can be scary. Can you make the leap? Should you? My guest in this episode of “What’s Working With Cam Marston”… Read More
Categories: Financial Services, Generation X, Podcast, Work
Asking the simple questions: How to get the most out of your employee benefit package
Posted On April 5, 2018
Confession time: When I was starting out in my first corporate job, I was handed a package of benefits options and told to pick out, on the spot, what I wanted. And I had no idea. So I asked my manager what he did. And that’s how I ended up with benefits tailored toward a thirty-something-year-old family man instead of something that would have been more beneficial for me at that time in my life – early twenties, unmarried and childless. I was not alone in my ignorance of the various elements of employee benefits packages, what they do, and… Read More
Categories: Podcast, Workplace
Ethics in the workplace: It’s a matter of corporate culture
Posted On March 29, 2018
How often do you think about business ethics? How do you instill them in your workplace? How do you react to an ethical lapse by an employee or a co-worker? In the new episode of “What’s Working with Cam Marston,” we explore these issues with Dr. Skip Ames of the Sorrell College of Business at Troy University. Ames has nearly 50 years of legal experience, including six in the U.S. Army’s Judge Advocate General Corps. He has taught at the University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law and currently focuses on business ethics at Troy. In order to… Read More
Categories: Podcast, Workplace