Staying On Program

Staying On® is an innovative award winning organisational development program designed to help organisations and their people adapt to the ageing of the workforce. It takes a life stage approach and is equally applicable to small, medium or large organisations.

It is a strategic whole of organisation approach aimed at creating an engaged and age friendly culture. The program addresses in an integrated manner the major challenges that many organisations face;

Workforce planning in a context of a changing labour market demographic
Recruitment and retention
Employee engagement and productivity
People risk management
Knowledge and skills retention and transfer
Health, wellbeing and safety.

Staying On® has four themes; Staying Engaged, Staying Healthy, Staying Safe and Staying Connected. The core message to staff is,

“We want you to stay on, but we want you to be engaged and contributing to the organisation, we want you to be healthy, we want you to be safe and if you do move on we want to stay connected with you.”

The Staying On Framework

“Staying On is positive, it addresses real business risks and imperatives. It ticks all my boxes.” Senior Executive

Staying On provides a framework for employee engagement, career and transition planning and for discussing issues of productivity and contribution.

Staying On means staying healthy. The link between employee wellbeing, productivity and engagement is now well established.

Workplace health and safety is a significant responsibility for employers and employees. Integrate your existing safety program and policies.

When your people move on it doesn’t mean that they and you can’t stay connected. Established an ex employee alumni program and retain them as your ambassadors.

Benefits For The Employer

Slow the loss of skilled and experienced staff
Retain staff with the skills, knowledge and experience you require
Retain of organisational, professional and community knowledge
Re-engage staff who have become disengaged or ambivalent
Build a healthier workforce with improved productivity
Become an age friendly employer of choice with enlightened polices
Reduced costs in recruitment and induction
More flexible job structuring and innovation

Benefits For The Employee

Staff can continue to do meaningful work and contribute beyond what they may have contemplated
Opportunities for employees to rethink and adjust their careers at different life stages
Staying On Conversations that enable employees to plan their futures
If employees experience a crisis point in their career or disengage, the opportunity to think about what might be needed to re-engage
Flexibility becomes a possibility rather than a dream or a tipping point to leave
Better able to balance competing life stage demands
Potentially healthier lifestyles and enhanced vitality
When people do move on they can stay connected with colleagues and with an employer who has been an important part of their lives.

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The Staying On program can be licenced to qualifying organisations.