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Managing
My Life: Planning My Retirement
&
Managing My Life: Making The Retirement Decision |
About Managing My Life: Planning
My Retirement
& Managing My Life: Making The Retirement
Decision |
| Managing
My Life: Planning My Retirement and Managing
My Life: Making The Retirement Decision are two comprehensive,
extremely user-friendly, cost-effective self-study programs,
which help participants consider all the lifestyle aspects related
to retirement or semi-retirement. Both programs help participants
develop a much greater awareness of what to expect in retirement,
and encourage them to consider a range of lifestyle activities
and second careers which are directly related to their strengths,
skills and interests. |
| Managing
My Life: Planning My Retirement was developed for individuals who could be retiring imminently or are a much as
ten years away from their normal retirement date. It will
help them view their retirement in a positive light and plan
accordingly. |
| Managing
My Life: Making The Retirement Decision is a program
for individuals who have been offered an early retirement option
by their company. The focus of the program is to lead
participants to consider the implications on their lives of
accepting or turning down the early retirement option, so that
they can make a more informed decision about their retirement
option. |
| It is highly recommended that
spouses also complete the program. |
| The Five key areas which
are covered in the programs are: |
| 1. |
The
Relationship between Work and Retirement - To help participants
realize that work provides them with a daily structure and satisfies
many fundamental motivations and needs. These needs must
be replaced adequately in retirement or semi-retirement, and
it is best to begin the planning process before one retires.
|
| 2. |
Self-Motivation
- To help employees understand the elements of self-motivation
and realize how important it is to understand and focus on one's
strengths, motivators and needs, when setting goals and taking
action. |
| 3. |
Lifestyle
- Areas discussed within lifestyle inlcude: living environment,
volunteer activities, relationships, hobbies and activities,
travel, exercise, nutrition and second career options. |
| 4. |
Misconceptions
about Aging and Retirement - To help participants articulate
any concerns and feelings they have and develop a more positive
view toward retirement or semi-retirement. |
| 5. |
Goal-Setting and
Taking Action - To help participants realize how important
to set goals, and to understand the process involved in setting
realistic and measurable goals followed by action plans. |
| Benefits For Users |
| Extremely time and cost effective
process to help users: |
| • |
Develop a clear understanding of their
strengths, motivators, and needs in order to select appropriate
activities in retirement or semi-retirement which take into
account these factors. |
| • |
Articulate any concerns and feeling they
have about aging and retirement and develop a more positive
view toward retirement |
| • |
Determine clear choices related to second
careers, living environment, volunteer activities, relationships,
hobbies, exercising, nutrition and travel. |
| • |
Make a faster and better informed decision
about the early retirement offer they may have received. |
| • |
Develop positive exercising and nutritional
habits. |
| • |
Learn useful goal-setting techniques and
how to break goals into action plans. |
| • |
Become calmer, more relaxed during this
transitional stage of their life. This will also help them concentrate
more effectively on their daily tasks at work and in their personal
life. |
