Empower Employees
Encourage employees' agency in both team and individual contexts
1. Adopt age-inclusive practices
An employee's daily experience working in a mixed age team can depend on whether their colleagues adopt practices that enable all of their peers to thrive regardless of age. Encourage employees to learn about and use best practices.
Actions To Consider
Share AARP's resources on age inclusive best workplace practices with all employees on International Age Diversity Day or Ageism Awareness Day.
This action guide is packed with readings, videos and worksheets your team can use to build successful multigenerational teams.
2. Plan for career longevity
Employees of any age need to approach their career planning with career longevity in mind. Many don't know how. Share resources to help them get started.
Actions To Consider
Share AARP resources with your employees to help them begin to create a plan for upskilling and cross-training for their career longevity.
Boost your career and income by learning new skills. These steps can help you.
This Harvard Business Review article proposes what you can focus on instead of "purpose" and why.
3. Navigate family caregiving
73% of employees in the US care for a child, an adult or both. When employers offer resources and programs to support family caregivers, everyone benefits. AARP’s caregiving program series helps your employees prepare and navigate caregiving and raises awareness about how to create a more caregiver inclusive workplace.
Actions To Consider
Host an employee workshop on a topic that supports working family caregivers. Choose among 15 topics in AARP's Caregiving Program Series.
All employees
AARP guest expert
Free
1 hr to plan, 1 hr to host session
Steps and Resources
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01DRAFT EMAIL
If you need to secure approval or gather support to host a caregiver workshop, use this draft email.
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02LIST
Choose the topic(s) that you’d like to host for your employees from the list at https://employerportal.aarp.org/caregiving
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03EMAIL
Email your requested topic(s) with preferred dates to AskCaregiving@aarp.org. An AARP team member will work with you to confirm your workshop details.
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04INVITE
Use the marketing resources provided by AARP’s Family Caregiving team to invite your employees
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05HOST
Host the AARP guest expert to join your employees on your own virtual meeting platform. The AARP expert will present and facilitate Q&A and discussion.
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06DRAFT EMAIL
Follow up with participants after the workshop using this draft email.
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07DRAFT EMAIL
Update the leader(s) who approved the workshop using this draft email to highlight wins and learnings from the completed workshop.
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Resources
1. Adopt age-inclusive practices
This action guide is packed with readings, videos and worksheets your team can use to build successful multigenerational teams.
2. Plan for career longevity
Boost your career and income by learning new skills. These steps can help you.
This Harvard Business Review article proposes what you can focus on instead of "purpose" and why.
3. Navigate family caregiving
If you need to secure approval or gather support to host a caregiver workshop, use this draft email to start the conversation.
Follow up with participants after a Caregiver Program Series workshop using this draft email.
Update the leaders who approved hosting the Caregiving Program Series, using this draft email to highlight wins and learnings.
