On the 1st October the default retirement age of 65 was abolished. Regardless of whether you regard this as a positive or negative move, what it means for all of us with working lives of c 50 years is that individual skills have to be kept up-to-date across the decades. This will be the only way of ensuring that we maintain our employability with relevant skills and performance capabilities.
The common attitude of "self write-off" reflected in statements such as "there's no point me learning anything new at my age" or "self-smugness" reflected in "you can't teach me anything new, I've worked here for 30 years" will have to go and quickly.
Employers have a key part to play in this workplace cultural change by putting in place support to enable all workers to update there skills.
For the full version of this article see www.maturetimes.co.uk/mindset-makeover