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Sustaining Self-balance Work-Life balance for all ages

Explore balancing work and life at all ages in an international conference at the 13th Personal Hungary Exhibition for Human Resource Management. Discover changing career dynamics and family structures over the years. Embrace the importance of self-balance in the later stages of a professional career and post-retirement. Challenge stereotypes and engage in intergenerational knowledge transfer. Uncover examples and options for sustaining balance and fulfilling personal growth. Join the movement towards a new balance in society.

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Sustaining Self-balance Work-Life balance for all ages

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  1. SustainingSelf-balanceWork-Lifebalanceforallages International Conferenceatthe 13th PersonalHungary Exhibitionfor Human Resource Management Katalin Hajós 17 November, 2016

  2. Seekingfornewbalance In reality there is no constant balance, we just continuously strive to achieve it • Different blueprints 10-20-30-40 years ago • 40 years ago we became parents while young and fresh out of the university, worked hard to escape our parents homes and to establish our own, but our career path afterwards was straight • 20 years ago people started to form families at later and later ages and the supporting childcare institutions started to decline • Nowadays the average age of parents is much older and parenthood is often considered as a breaking point in the career • Different career paths • 40 years ago the retirement age was much lower, the professional career often ended at the age of 55- 60 • 20 years ago the labor market practically closed for senior people • Today the picture is different and the lack and need of experienced workforce opens new opportunities in all age groups. Presentfinancialregulationsareformany a stumblingblock.

  3. Changingdefinition of career and family Advancement in the course of the professional path, quick rise in the personal position. • Objective career goals can be described with characteristics obvious for others (increase of income, higher position, managerial roles) • Subjective career goal means own assessment of the professional path and the interpretation of its content. New definitions and new type of relationships • The families are determined by their actual life-period, by the major tasks the families are taking care of • The families are continuously renewing themselves as major changes and events form and shape the links and emotional ties among the family members career Family Raising 8 children and help them to university degree is a career?

  4. career or balance? career & Balance! As we get older, sustaining balance is getting more important than a new step on the career ladder • How to sustain balance at the end of a professionalcareer and by society’s highly acknowledged life? Does retirement mean an end of everything? • What happens to the human, professional and managerial experiences gained during decades? 25 60

  5. Embrace change! • Retirement is one of the major „role reduction” in life. • Different daily routine, weaker financial position, less power, and less authority, limited responsibility, changes in social connections • Women and men get on with it differently Knowledge, experience, and professional networks do not seize to exist with a date, there is need for continuity!

  6. Towards a New Balance • Decision and activity: • We have to confront stereotypes, and question all old feelings: why should I not do this or that in my age, why should I not change old habits, why should I not learn something, why should I not find new love, why should I not do what I really care for? • There are no meaningful roles in the societyforseniors (or difficult to recognize and find them) • Our society does not realize enough what an asset the senior people are, what theyare capable of. • The intergenerational knowledge transfer is an unexploited merit. • What AWCDH can do? : • Show best practices (Best workplace for women, conferences), • Share experiences, awards for exemplary personalities • Help to implement successful international examples

  7. Examples & Options • Professional • Support of trade organization • Knowledge transfer • Civil organizations • Voluntary actions • Individual • Old but not practiced hobby • Senior courses • Language • Blogs and info service • Examples from real life • Former CEO of a major company opened an art gallery in an inherited big flat for young artist to use with 2 weeks rotations • Owner of a communication agency became office manager at a small company • Language club run by former native speaker of that language • Voluntary work at an online radio – an entire radio station is run by well known radio personalities

  8. Interest & Responsibility • Tomaintain activity is important for the society and individuals alike • EU Be the change: new project, within the framework of Erasmus + • Knowledge transfer of senior entrepreneurs to a special group of young people (NEETs): • Joint project of 5 countries • Goal: to elaborate methodology to engage senior entrepreneurs to help young people to become entrepreneurs themselves.

  9. Age? What is it? For a period of time we are too young and then suddenly we become too old. It is not certain at all that society draws the line of aging where our body and soul does. One should fight prejudice not age. (2016, Einspach-Tisza Kata ELTE)

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