Talking about Generations

By Carol Phillips* Millennials are the first generation to be educated at a time when knowledge is both plentiful and accessible. Educators are struggling to make the shift from a model that was intent on helping students acquire knowledge through a prescribed path (a path that had been tried and tested over centuries), to one [...]

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By Carol Phillips* Ask a teen how they are doing and they will nearly always answer ‘busy‘. For most teens, this is a true statement.  High school teens and college students alike are chronically tired and complain of stress. How much of this round the clock activity and pressure is avoidable is different debate, one [...]

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By Sarah Newton We have long been fed the line that Millennials are disloyal employees who expect to work when they want and how they want, but new research could be knocking these long held myths on their head. The Price Waterhouse Coopers ‘Millennials at work’ research looks at the opinions and expectations of over [...]

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By Carol Phillips* Financial services are waking up to the potential of Gen Y consumers. Millennials may not have a lot of money now, but they are determined to pay down their debt and conserve resources for the future.  Coming of age in an era of massive financial uncertainty, they may even come to be [...]

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By Sarah Newton This is a post that I have wanted to write for so long and no, I haven’t been procrastinating, I just needed to get an inside ticket, so to speak. In the UK there are a few amazing companies that have been started by Gen X ( of Gen Jones for those [...]

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By Sarah Newton There has been little talk up to now about Gen Z, but I can see a few things coming up through the ranks. A recent post has claimed that they are more like Gen Y than Gen Y. Saying that, they are more connected and more comfortable with technology – well of [...]

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By Sarah Newton OK, I can hold my containment no longer and I have to shout from the rooftops. I am so excited about the coalition agreement made in UK politics between the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats, mostly because I am so excited to have Nick Clegg in a senior position. While I did [...]

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By Sarah Newton As you may or may not know, as I write this the UK is going through a political stalemate, with no stable government and all the parties trying to decide if and how they will form a government. The UK look on in disbelief, not quite knowing what to do. (We now [...]

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By Sarah Newton* I recently saw this post and it really got me thinking about how we can manage Gen Y better by taking lessons from video games. And while, in my experience, I am not sure that Gen Y in the UK keeps score (as stated in the article), so to speak, I do [...]

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By Carol Phillips* One of the biggest myths about Millennials is that they are all digital natives, blogging and tweeting their way through life. The truth is a bit more nuanced. True, Millennials are some of the most avid USERS of mobile and Internet technology. The age of first cell phone is dropping rapidly and [...]

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