Personal Leadership in Later Life

“Inside every 70 year old is a 30 year old asking: ‘What happened?’”

Successful ageing is intimately associated with a productive working life. Employers have a key role in supporting a confidently ageing society. Successful ageing, workforce sustainability and successful business are all linked.

As the working population ages, employers will increasingly find themselves relying on older workers. In our youth-oriented society, both employers and employees are ill-equipped to enter into fruitful and constructive later-life relationships. Many employers don’t understand older workers’ needs; and workers themselves tend not to anticipate these. Most of us deny the ageing process, and then are surprised when it catches up with us.

Many employers provide pre-retirement courses for employees who are nearing retirement age. Typically, these courses try to prepare them for retirement. However, this particular experience differs in that it gives employees the opportunity to look at what choices and options they have in gaining meaning from their work and life now, and in the future.

Most of all it aims to develop employee’s adaptability, perspective and sense of contribution within the organisation.

The Experience . . .

 An internally customised and engaging three day residential experience which enables older workers to develop a sense of direction, connection and contribution within business and society.

Objectives

To provide a safe environment within which to explore what work and life mean to you, as you are ageing, and how to best use this knowledge and experience.

Participant profile

Employees over the age of 55 who want to ensure that their remaining working lives are meaningful, fulfilling, balanced and take account the personal, work and domestic changes that come with maturity.

During the three days you will discover

• The implications of being part of an ageing working population in your organisation
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• The research based keys to successful ageing and how to integrate these into your working life
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• How to successfully manage ambiguity and uncertainty.
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• How to embody self-respect, self-trust and self-empowerment.
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• What’s important to you, bolstered by the knowledge and perception that comes with age and experience.
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• What you may wish to do, so that what you have achieved will be left as a professional contribution for future generations.
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• Your options, choices, and best routes forward.