One way an organization can engage, and retain, their employees is by offering them career management opportunties. This can come in several forms but the overall goal is to provide them opportunities that will help them fulfill career needs, while providing the organization more productivity and loyalty. All employees have some type of career aspirations or […]
Career Management and Organizations
October 6th, 2008 · No Comments
Posted in Careers | Tags: ·assessment·career aspirations·career fairs·career management·career needs·career path·developmental phases·job rotation·job shadowing·mentoring·organizations·productivity
Organizational Responsibility to Older Workers
September 22nd, 2008 · No Comments
With a large number of boomers who will be retiring in mass exodus in a few years, it seems imperative that organizations assist with this transition out of the workforce. However, few organizations truly have any type of retirement transitional program in place to start to prepare older workers in this transition. It is more than just […]
Posted in Aging and the Workforce· Baby Boomers | Tags: ·boomers·career coaching·impact on family and personal life·keeping employees loyal and engaged·mentoring·retirement transitional program·the world of retirement·training.education·transition our of the workforce·volunteer opportunities
Five Ways to Motivate Boomers
July 20th, 2008 · No Comments
The boomers are coming and boy, are they coming in big numbers - 76 million to be exact. It is predicted that 70% of them will remain in the workforce, some because they don’t want to live off a mandated wage through social security or pensions, and others because they want to remain productive and to […]
Posted in Aging and the Workforce· Baby Boomers· Multigenerational Issues | Tags: ·boomers·coaching·collaboration·loyalty and dedication·mentoring·opportunties for advancement·participation in decision making·ways to motivate boomers
Old Dogs Can Learn New Tricks!
July 7th, 2008 · 1 Comment
An old client of mine, Bob, called me a few weeks ago to say that he had decided to return to the workforce. Bob is 70 years old and had been retired for over 5 years. He let me know that he had enough of the so-called “good life” and found he missed contributing and using his […]
Posted in Aging and the Workforce· Multigenerational Issues | Tags: expertise·knowledge·mentoring·old dogs can learn new tricks. engaged employees·retirement
Why Older Workers Make Great Mentors
May 19th, 2008 · No Comments
In the coming years, the baby boom explosion will be in full force, with 10,000 boomers reaching retirement a day. It is predicted that 70% of them will remain in the workforce, some for financial reasons but a large majority are going to remain out of two needs: the need to remain productve and the […]
Posted in Aging and the Workforce· Baby Boomers | Tags: cohesive work teams·demonstrate competencies·generativity·intrinsic motivation·job satisfaction·knowledge sharer·mentoring·mentoring role·muse·older workers make great mentors·rewards·sage
Keeping the Knowledge Within Your Organization
April 27th, 2008 · No Comments
One area that orgnizations don’t usually think of when turnover exists is in the area of knowledge mangement, or capturing information from workers about how they do their job. This means job information that a worker keeps in their head about the way they do their job. There may be job descriptions that spell out […]
Posted in Aging and the Workforce | Tags: documentation·employee engagement·informational nterviewing·job shadowing·keeping the knowledge within your organization·knowledgement management·mentoring·story telling·turnover
Finding Happiness As We Get Older
April 21st, 2008 · No Comments
According to a recent study by a University of Chicago professor, Yang Yang, people do become happier as they get older, as “they have learned to be more content with what they have….they have learned to lower their expectations.” It seems that this disputes earlier findings that older people feel more depressed with aging and […]
Posted in Baby Boomers | Tags: ·finding happiness as we get older·giving back·mentoring·the aging population·volunteering·Yang Yang