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Recent age discrimination legislation need only be a worry if ignored or badly handled. For many employers and employees it offers a hugely positive opportunity to re-think current working practices and find ways of planning how best to benefit from the undoubted strengths and commitment of older workers.

We believe that in the future, the most successful companies will be those that view mature working as a period of transition which may last for several decades as older workers jointly design, with their employers, the best ways of working to suit their mutual needs at particular times.

We maintain that increasingly, successful mature working will depend on:

• The employing organisation taking a long-term strategic view about the role of mature workers within its workforce and society as a whole.
  
  
• The emergence of evolutionary flexible working conditions which will enable all workers to engage in appropriate contracts that reflect their individual needs for work/life balance at any point in their working life (the creation of a 'transitional' workforce).
  
  
• Mature workers and employers jointly sharing responsibility for changing behaviours, attitudes, and thereby cultural perceptions, about the abilities, rights and responsibilities of older workers.
  
  
• Employers investing in ongoing support and training in order to assist their employees in planning for longer working lives through financial planning, skills maintenance and individual one-to-one support.

As specialists in an extensive range of HR and management issues concerning the role of older workers we can offer consultancy and development support (group and individual) in the following areas:

• Pre-retirement and pensions planning
• Return-to-work training
• Whole life financial planning
• Transitional working strategies and planning
• Flexible working options for the older worker
• Managing attitude and behavioural change
• Mentoring and coaching for mature employees
• Performance managing the mature employee
• Risk assessment and workforce demographics
  
  

We work with leaders, managers and employees at both strategic and operational levels and can offer a wide range of options in terms of input - from group training, through facilitated workshops discussion groups and planning sessions, to one-to-one coaching and mentoring.

We are also available to speak at conferences, networking events and seminars on a range of in my prime topics. Please contact us for further information.