A few years ago I started picking up that employees are written off from the age of 50. To be honest, at first I didn’t really believe it. I thought maybe it was employees who hadn’t been able to adapt to technology; or that people were misreading signals at work. But I am now seeing … Written off at 50? Why? What a waste!
We are at an interesting point in time. Diverse workforces make for better performance. But Best Companies to Work For awards don’t look at diversity as success criteria. If you want evidence on diversity and performance, look at McKinsey’s various reports that have been tracking this over the last decade. The latest is Diversity Wins … Best Companies to Work for agenda – where is ‘age’?
Succession planning is one of those things that too often goes to the back burner, according to Ronnie Fox, partner in Fox and Partners.
In April, Next-Up will hold its first Professional Services Retirement Forum to share the latest thinking around helping partners to retire.
If you recently left full time work (I am avoiding the word retired) and are finding it tough to create the new life you want, this blog may help. For many it is so much harder than they ever imagined. And there is a danger of feeling a personal failure.
We recently ran a fantastic two-day workshop for partners coming up to retirement, in an international professional firm.
Well what an experience! Earlier this month we sent out our enewsletter and mentioned we are helping a manufacturing company to find a chairman.
Of all the challenges people face as they retire, the hardest and least expected is – who am I?
We are working with a number of professional firms, helping partners plan for their retirement. Some can be as far as ten years off, most just one or two years away.
