It used to be that when a business wanted to provide Baby Boomers with executive career advice, HR Managers would only think of coaching programs that were office-based and face-to-face.
Some people in HR roles erroneously assert that the only people who are comfortable with digital technology are Gen X, Gen Y, and Millennials. They also incorrectly assert that senior managers and executives should given face-to-face and office-based coaching. How would executives and senior managers feel being coached via technology, heaven forbid?
Let me give you just 2 examples of Baby Boomers openly embracing their executive coaching sessions via technology.
‘Mike’, early 50s, was an Operations Manager with a large facilities management firm. He wanted to get executive career coaching, that was easy to do around his work hours and without the hassle of commuting to an executive coach’s office in Sydney. His HR Manager gave him the option of interviewing a traditional deliverer of executive career coaching versus one that could be served conveniently and digitally. While our first meeting was conducted in person, the rest of his executive career coaching sessions were served across FaceTime and Skype. Mike happily engaged with his executive career coaching program, but without the commuting hassle characteristic of Sydney. In fact, several of his sessions were in his Lycra active wear!
Today, almost everyone has a smartphone, a tablet and a desktop computer. Almost everyone has visited YouTube or an app like ABC iView that serves episodes digitally. Almost everyone has attended webinars or a meeting online.
So the excuse that older people should experience executive career coaching in Sydney or any other large city in Australia, only when facilitated in an office, no longer holds water.
CareerSupport365 can help with career coaching of executive and manager level employees – find out how here and e-mail us via enquiries@career365.com.au.
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