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- Alternative Work Arrangements
Time has become a highly prized commodity. Boomers, in particular, look for more flexibility as they extend their working lives. Managing with alternative work arrangements can help employers demystify the alternative work arrangements that are typically available as well as others that employees could request.
- Available at a Premium
Read this article and get a better understanding of currently proposed healthcare plans and how they could impact all of us.
- Business Environment Pulse Check
For a detailed sense of how the impending transition of 78 million Baby Boomers into retirement will impact your organization, take a few moments to complete this check.
- Do you Know Where Your Boomers, Gen Xers, and Millenials Are?
Today, companies are not able to depend on the external market to fill all of their talent gaps. Consequently, internal employees have taken on an even greater value. A leader’s understanding of how their workforce is composed and how, therefore, it can be leveraged is becoming a competitive advantage. Learn the fundamentals of conducting a Talent Review that can give an employer an eye-opening picture of the composition of their workforce.
- Encore Survey - The 2008 MetLife Foundation/Civic Ventures Encore Career Survey
Encore Survey - The 2008 MetLife Foundation/Civic Ventures Encore Career Survey is the first national study to reveal that the encore career is more than an appealing idea. Read more about the encore career and view the entire survey here.
- Executive Summary of the 2008 MetLife Foundation/Civic Ventures Encore
Executive Summary – Read the executive summary of the 2008 MetLife Foundation/Civic Ventures Encore Career Survey and discover why so many boomers are choosing a new stage of work for the greater good – the “encore career.”
- From Radicals to Retirees
This article, published in the June edition of Winning Workplaces, will help you discover proactive ways to address the impact of the loss of boomer employees and ways to meet the needs of workers over 50.
- From the Age of Aquarius to the Age of Responsibility
As they advance toward the threshold of old age, the nation’s 75 million baby boomers are in an extended “sandwich” phase of their family life cycle, with many either raising minor children or providing financial and other forms of support to adult children or to aging parents.
- Guiding Employees to Live Authentically Through Work
Learn what qualities are common to self-actualizing people and how you can adapt your leadership style to create a work environment that enhances talent and passion in your employees.
- Healthcare for the United States in the Twenty-First Century
What will health care in the United States look like, and as a nation what sort of health care system do we want? Give us your input!
- How My Plan After 50 can Help Management get a Good Night's Sleep
Over the career of an employee, companies have already invested a great deal in their Baby Boomers; consider how you can continue to get a return on your investment.
- I Don't Want to be a Scrooge
How can I manage this year to actually enjoy the holidays without feeling stressed and just wishing that January and routine would return to my life? How can I create holiday joy for my spouse, my grandchildren, my children, my parents and myself without depleting my own emotional well. What is really important for me this holiday season?
- If the Shoe Fits
Hermania Ibarra, author of Working Identity, suggests that people really find their careers by acting their way into them rather than thinking their way into work. Our My Plan After 50 Consultant takes that concept a step further by offering ways that individuals can “try-on” other jobs and even other careers before making a full-time commitment to the change. She also offers employers ways they can create that same experience within their companies.
- Making Wise Talent Decisions
If you were unsure if or how you should continue to invest in recruiting and retaining your wisdom workers, this article makes a compelling business case for further investment as well as outlining potential impacts to the individual Boomers, their employers, communities and the global economy if we suddenly lost this key segment of the workforce.
- Managing in Tough Economic Times: A Guide for Employers
Times are undoubtedly challenging and uncertain, and if you or your employees are experiencing stress or distress, you are absolutely not alone. As a manager, you know the importance of leveraging all the expert resources available to you for both yourself and your employees. This includes the employee assistance program (EAP).
- Managing Your Healthcare Benefits
This article focuses on strategies for individuals and employers to maximize their healthcare benefits.
- Media Mirror
Do the media and advertisers shape or reflect our culture? Read this article and let us know what you think!
- Parenting the Next Employees
Learn about Generation Z, tips on parenting them and what we can learn from them in this article.
- Put Me In Coach; I'm Ready to Play
We often believe that our friends or family can be our best advisors or that we’ll figure out our destiny simply by living life. Consider, though, that good athlete who becomes a star on the field with the inspired direction of a professional coach. Put Me in Coach; I’m Ready to Play offers a perspective on the value of having a life coach who can enhance our transformation from who we are today to who we have the potential to become.
- Security: What Americans want from a job
We know that state and local governments are facing a massive exodus of knowledge workers, one-third of whom will be eligible to retire in the next five to ten years.
- Silver Economy Summit 2008 Agenda
Silver Economy Summit 2008 Agenda
- Silver Economy Summit 2008 Executive Report
Silver Economy Summit 2008 Executive Report
- The Incredible Common Sense of Us
Americans are exhibiting a quiet resolution to return to the fundamentals of sound fiscal management and reclaim our voice in determining our future. This level of individual engagement represents a welcome opportunity for employers to collaborate with their employees to create win-win outcomes in these wildly fluctuating times.
- The Spirit of Giving
The state of the economy is probably having an impact on how we choose to live out the spirit of giving. Read this article and let us help you rethink how you give.
- The Unquestionable Value of Marketability
Given the realities of the workplace today, the last generation to enjoy the full benefits of long-term employment with one organization may be the Silent generation. Today, both employers and employees alike face a different employment value proposition. Employees are clear that their value to any employer is their ability to apply cutting-edge skills to ever-evolving work while producing profitable outcomes. Learn how we can remain marketable, especially in these tough times.
- Which came first
This article focuses on the factual evidence that dispels the perception that mature workers are a deterrent in the workplace.
- Work Arrangement Inventory
For those employers who have been working with alternative work arrangements but would like to reflect on their use and design, this tool will provide a summary of the types of arrangements, their benefits and the issues employers should consider when they implement alternatives to a traditional work arrangement.
- Work as an Afterthought
Boomers will be the first generation to enjoy an extended life longevity bonus that could extend well beyond a traditional retirement age, as much as 20-40 years. Clouded by the vision of their parents’ retirement, many Boomers haven’t fully faced the implications of long life without all the accoutrements of work. As with so much of their lives, Boomers are poised to pioneer a new vision of the well-lived life that could reshape the barely-established standard set by previous retirees.
- Workforce Transition Pulse Check
Take this quick check to measure your level of awareness of the potential impacts of the impending Baby Boomer transition into retirement on your organization.
- WWS Services Combined Product Sheet
In this article you'll find an overview of the Consulting Services available through My Plan After 50.
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