30 May 2019 By Victoria Tomlinson
Unretirement Purpose Retirement pre-retirement
There is a (very small) sea change happening among employers as to their roles and responsibilities towards a retiring employee. Here I want to look at what that change is, some leaders in the field such as the construction industry – and the areas where employers may want to start rethinking the opportunities of retiring employees.
20 May 2019 By Victoria Tomlinson
Unretirement Networking Non-Executive Roles Retirement Planning
Someone in our network recommended this book, Executive Freedom – he is a part-time IT director for smaller businesses and part of the Liberti Group behind this book.
16 May 2019 By Victoria Tomlinson
Blog Skills Trustees Retirement Jobboard
We are increasingly being asked if we know good people to recommend for various roles. Below are the current roles – and ones coming up. Please do share with anyone who might be interested
29 April 2019 By Victoria Tomlinson
After 30+ years working in PR – in-house and then setting up and running Northern Lights – we launched Next-Up last year, a business to help people use their skills and find opportunities in unretirement.
15 April 2019 By Victoria Tomlinson
I have never been interested in people’s ages. Until we started Next-Up. Now I am intrigued when someone says, ‘I am 57’ and I have to stop myself gasping – I had them at nearly 70; or the reverse of that, someone says they are late 60s and I thought they were a decade younger.
11 February 2019 By Victoria Tomlinson
Blog Retirement partners pre-retirement professional firms
Should we help partners who are retiring – and if so what and how?
This is one of the hot topics in professional firms at the moment – and here I want to share some of the issues if you don’t help them and the opportunities that are being overlooked in the process.
6 February 2019 By Guest writer Andie Lawson
Blog Unretirement Small Business Consultancy Boredom in Retirement Retirement Planning
Six months ago, I was in my dream job at Prudential, a company I loved. Over nearly two decades, I had the privilege of working with hundreds of Financial Planners, helping them to grow and develop their own skills and their business models.
17 January 2019 By Guest writer Jim Currie
Unretirement Purpose Retirement Retirement Planning Third Age
Recently I gave a talk to an audience comprising people 55 years and older who were thinking about retirement or who had actually made the step. The talk was about my personal retirement "transition" story and I pulled out three key areas which I hope will help others.
18 December 2018 By Guest writer Philippa Mooney
I recently read an article, written by Victoria Tomlinson CEO of Next-Up, talking about shaping the future after work. I was immediately caught up and interested in sharing in the discussion about what comes after an established work life, and to offer my own perspectives on how people experience this period of life, aka retirement.
