I’m on vacation in Madrid. I was here once before for a short visit
earlier this year to lead a workshop for a couple of friends I knew in
Buenos Aires who have opened a coaching school here. This time I am
able to just relax and take some time to get to know the country a bit
better. It always amazes me how the first few days of every holiday are
spent ‘shifting gears’ and adjusting to another context and pace than
we have in our ‘normal’ work life. It dawned on me yesterday that this
is a mini-experience of what we encounter when we retire. We move from
a fairly intense, externally stimulated, action-filled environment to
one that is wide open. If there is any action at all, we have to
generate it ourselves.
There is a lot of concern these days
about the wave of Boomer retirements. A couple of my clients are
becoming more than a little concerned that they may lose as much as a
third of their managerial workforce in the next 3 to 5 years. It isn’t
surprising and the demographic data has been predicting a kind of mass
exodus for some time. Now people are waking up to the fact that we have
a small window of time in which to prepare the next generation of
leaders to take the helm.[
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Crabby Old Lady took a swipe at life coaches
yesterday. I commented to her that the same might be said of lawyers,
heath care providers and financial counselors. The fact is there are
many opportunistic and unqualified people calling themselves coaches.
While I can agree with her concern, I cannot let her sweeping
generalization impune the work of thousands of committed and competent
individuals.[
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