Career Life Transitions offers a range of interventions to support your organisation. Below are four key areas in which we are assisting organisations develop their people, engage their people and to demonstrate their company values. The 4 case studies highlight the capability and capacity for career life transitions to support your organisation. Case Study [...]
“Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.” Viktor Frankl Viktor Frankl wrote this after enduring extreme circumstances, but the key to the quote, I believe, is that having meaning and purpose leads to a better life. With medical advances and healthier lifestyles, our lifespans are ever [...]
The answers might surprise you; many may be intending to leave sooner than you think, or that you are planning or prepared for. People are looking at world affairs and starting to think ‘now might be the time to scale down and move into the next stage of my life after work. Are you [...]
Career Life Transitions Changing Gears workshops are really gathering momentum in WA, we have now put hundreds of people through the program and I’m being asked ‘what are the benefits to the employees and the business?’ From our every growing experience, we are finding some real trends: 1. People don't really understand Super, [...]
According to Wikipedia, “a wicked problem is a problem that is difficult or impossible to solve because of incomplete, contradictory and changing requirements that are often difficult to recognize.” When we look at the challenge of the ageing workforce, there are a number of factors that immediately come into play, these factors are intertwined [...]
What is the Changing Gears program? In a nutshell Changing Gears is about celebrating our ageing workforce, transitioning them from full-time work with dignity and assisting their employer organisations with that process. It has evolved over several years and we work across the country and across all sectors. We've had around 7000 mature-age employees [...]
For such a topical subject, it is surprising how little organisations are paying attention to it. Is it because its not seen as an operation imperative? Are people oblivious to the consequences? Or is it just on the ‘too hard’ basket. Many organisations we speak to are very ‘intellectually’ interested in investigating the issue, but [...]
This year I turn 49. I’m doing work that I am really passionate about but still find myself having the inevitable thoughts that happen around every decade birthday. "Am I where I thought I would be in my career? In my life? Am I happy with what I have achieved?". Sometimes those thoughts pass briefly, [...]
One of the things I’m hearing more and more from people as they move into their 50’s is the phrase “I didn’t plan for my life to turn out like this”. In some cases this is a valid observation, bad luck or some interaction out of their control has intercepted their plans and [...]
Between 1946 and 1965, 5.5 million people were born in Australia, this is the Baby Boomer demography. That means that this year the first of that group are 72 years old and will be or are already, in a state of requiring aged care support. This represents over 20% of the current population (24 Million) [...]
Dr Susan Roberts says: