The Well Informed

Welcome to our latest issue of the Well Informed, where we share our latest news, workplace mental health and wellbeing research, and fresh inspiration to support you and your team to live and work well.

Flexible work arrangements can be beneficial for mental wellbeing, allowing older workers to maintain a healthy work-life balance while continuing to contribute their valuable expertise."?

Case Study: Engaging Older Workers at McCain Foods

Building on successful programs already in place for early career workers, McCain Foods recently engaged Transitioning Well to assess and provide data to help them design age-friendly practices and succession plans, implement manager training and launch retirement coaching to ensure a smoother path to retirement. Read the outcomes here.?

Is Your Organisation Ready for an Ageing Workforce?

When organisations encourage later-in-career conversations and support transition planning, they ensure precious years of expertise and knowledge don’t suddenly walk out the door, while being better positioned to manage succession, develop meaningful mentoring programs, and build an engaged alumni.

Not just that, but they're also helping people to leave with grace and confidence, which is good for mental health as well as business reputation.

Take our free Maturity of Practice Quiz to check if your organisation is ready to support an ageing workforce.?

Spotlighting our Late Career and Retirement Programs

Late Career and Retirement Coaching

Spanning three phases of retirement: preparing for retirement, leaving work, and adjusting to retirement, we customise five hours of individual coaching around your specific needs.

Partner Retirement Transition Coaching

Encompassing 6.5 hours of individual coaching around specific needs, this program provides the tools and resources to maximise transition success for partners in professional service firms.?

Late Career and Retirement Management Capability Training

Comprised of a suite of modules, and complemented by e-learning and online conversation simulations, this comprehensive training will equip your managers with the tools and skills they need to manage an ageing workforce, and assist in managing the transition to retirement well.

Late Career to Retirement Seminars

Our seminars can open?up important conversations and equip you with what you need to support your people through late career and retirement, and help them navigate these transitions well.

• Designing Your Late(r) Career This session applies design thinking principles to planning our late career in a way that is flexible and adaptable and allows us to respond purposefully as things change. ?
• Retiring Well Moving beyond the traditional financial and physical health considerations, this session explores ways to maximise wellbeing in the lead up to retirement and after you stop working.

Maturity of Practice Index (MPI)

Building on our free Maturity of Practice Quiz (MPQ), our Maturity of Practice Index (MPI) benchmarks best practice through interviews, focus groups and a desktop review to help provide insight into the maturing of your organisation to be ageing workforce ready. Through this review you will gain insight into the four pillars of an ageing workforce (i.e., Roadmap, Recruitment, Retention and Retirement) and tailored practical recommendations aligned with best practice to proactively support an ageing workforce.

This Month's Thought Provoking Content

Each month we'll share with you some of the content from around the world that has got us talking. This month we look at pieces from Jean Hailes for Women's Health , The Sydney Morning Herald , NOON and 德勤 .