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The Mature Career and Lifestyle Audit (MCLA) single or two day workshops for older workers that WISCo developed to compliment the full MCLA programme continue to be popular. The workshops offer older people an opportunity for reflective dialogue about their current circumstances and future plans including:
Your organisation no doubt invests heavily in training and development courses for younger staff - courses which pay off by stimulating their happiness and sense of fulfilment, thereby decreasing staff turnover and improving productivity and workforce management.
However identifying appropriate staff development courses for your older workforce, at any level, can be much more difficult. For people in their fifties and sixties there may be no obvious route to further progress through the company.
The Mature Career and Lifestyle Audit is a short programme (3 days' intensive or 5 days on a modular basis) specially designed to help older people and their employers to meet changes and challenges in their working circumstances. The Audit addresses small groups and works with them on a one-to-one basis through reflective dialogue. Each participant is helped to evaluate his or her skills, attitudes and personal circumstances and to consider the options for both the pre and post retirement years.
The Audit leaders recognise that some of this information is confidential and participants will be assured that nothing of a highly personal nature will be passed back to their employers without their specific consent; this is essential to encourage honest self-assessment. However Human Resources departments will be given a summary of the group findings -- and of individual responses where agreed -- to enable them to prepare suitable employment strategies which are likely to succeed.
The Audit can be adapted to meet the needs of commissioning companies, if required. It is also very valuable for companies who are having to make older staff redundant or as part of a pre-retirement package.
Ideally, most people will undertake an MLC Audit twice in their lives - first in mid career (at about 50) and second as they near retirement. However a single Audit, taken at any age between about 45 and about 65, may be sufficient for many.
Reflecting on one's current life state in a Mid-Career review can be a meaningful activity leading to major and rewarding change. At this age there is plenty of time for a change in job, occupation, trade or profession; some of the limiting factors which may have governed one's choice when younger are no longer in force; and there are still enough years after 50 to start and complete a whole new career before one's expected retirement age.
The Late-Career review is important because life after retirement (if one opts to retire at State Pensionable Age or before) is unlikely to follow any of the models in the past. Most people will live in good health for twenty or thirty years or more after State Pensionable Age (even if extended to 68). For this reason, about five years before formal retirement is a good time at which to take stock and assess the variety of personal and financial resources available to draw on in the years to come.
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