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Concurrent Session
Surfing the Silver Tsunami: Addressing Boomer Retirements & Aging in the Workplace
Lonestar DE
In-Person and Virtual Tuesday 10/26/2021 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM   Add to calendar
Competencies: Business (Behavioral), Workplace (Technical)
Workplace Application:
Attendees will learn how HR can manage an aging workforce - using proactive techniques - to ensure the generational shift happens smoothly with Baby Boomers and Gen Xers leaving organizations and Millennials and Gen Z filling those roles.  

A ‘Generational Shift’ is happening right now in the workforce, ushering HR into the post-Baby Boomer Era. Though this transition has been anticipated for decades, many aspects about it have been overlooked, such as how the underlying norms and values are shifting with it. 

To understand the shift, we must first explore the generational spectrum at hand. At the older end, we have Baby Boomers - people born between 1946 and 1964, making them somewhere between 51-69 years old in 2015 - and at the other end we have Millennials - people born between 1981 and 1995 and Gen Z between 1995-2005. In between are the Gen Xers, born between 1965 and 1980. These age ranges vary slightly between who you ask.

For many years, the Boomers have made up most of the workforce. Since many of them are older now, a wave of retirees - known as The Silver Tsunami - have started exiting the workforce.

Since the pandemic, Baby Boomers have dramatically begun leaving the workforce prompting HR leaders to scramble to figure out transition plans.

Learning Objectives:

  • Learn how reverse mentoring can develop an aging workforce to the ever-changing trends of technology and globalization.
  • Help employees within all generations build a well-lived, joyful career that will increase engagement and retention.
  • Learn how “Phased Retirement” can be implemented to help individual’s transition into retirement by gradually reducing their appointment over time.
  • Properly offboard retired employees, giving them the ‘red carpet treatment’.
  • Develop retirement alumni networks to engage your alumni retired employees in being brand ambassador.
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Presenter:
Raymond Lee, Founder and CEO,
Careerminds