Making the Retirement Decision

Key Features

Managing My Life: Making The Retirement Decision is a program for employees 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.

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 is usually offered to employees 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 employees 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.

What Is Included In The Programs

Both programs include:
1. Comprehensive self-study workbooks in Acrobat Reader format, which can be downloaded and printed from your organization’s server or our server.  The workbooks can also be e-mailed to your staff members.
2. "Deep Relaxation" and "Relaxation and Sleep" audio-tracks with music, which can be downloaded or e-mailed. These relaxation audio-tracks will really help users feel more rested and calmer during this period of transition in their life and them complete their daily tasks, with more concentration and focus.  They will also help users experience more consistent sleep, allowing them to be more energetic during the day.
3. A guide on how the program can be effectively launched in your organization.
4. The possibility of customizing the program materials to meet specific needs you may have.
5. The availability of one-on-one coaching, teleclasses, web-cast programs and on-site workshops through a network of Professional Coaches and Trainers who are licensed to use the materials in their practice.  This allows our network to handle and deliver simultaneous assignments to clients with locations across North America and world-wide, no matter how large or small the client organization is.

Multiple Pricing and Training Delivery Options:

We license your organization to post the program on your Intranet for downloading and use by all your employees during the period of the license.  Pricing varies by number of employees and by program within the Managing My Life series.  Pricing of this delivery model could be as low as $750 per year.

Employees can also access the Program from our server. Pricing varies by number of employees and by program within the Managing My Life series.  After initial set-up fee, pricing of this delivery model could be as low as $0.75 per employee.

ADDITIONAL OPTION:

The program materials can also be offered to a select number of employees within your organization.   Under the circumstances we would e-mail the licensed individuals the program materials and mail them the accompanying Deep Relaxation Exercises CD for their personal, sole use.

BUNDLING OPTION:

This program can also be bundled with other Managing My Life programs, leading to further savings to your organization.  For more information please contact Walt Richardson by e-mail at WaltRichardson@rctm.com or by telephone at -800-488-0319 or (253) 582-2911

Benefits For Your Organization

• Extremely cost effective method to inject wellness and healthy thinking to the heart of your organization: IT'S PEOPLE.
• Increases your perception by your remaining staff and the community that you are a responsible, caring employer.  This will definitely help staff retention.
• Helps reduce absenteesim, burnout on the job and long-term disability claims.
• Requires very little administrative time, to deliver the program. The only requirement is to arrange for the posting of the program on your site, the e-mailing of an announcement to staff, and e-mailing reminders from time to time.   Alternatively if you do not wish to post the program, you could e-mail the program materials to affected employees or give them access to download the materials directly from our server.
• Many employees who have completed the program are likely to realize the positive impact of retirement or semi-retirement on their lives, and will be therefore more inclined to accept the early retirement option which may have been offered to them.  Others will also be more apt to retire by age 65 even though retirement at age 65 may no longer be mandatory in their state, province, or country.
• The possibility of becoming more involved in the delivery of the program by providing support services around the program materials.
• The possibility of providing external support in the implementation of the program by retaining Professional Coaches and Trainers from our Network of Licensed Professionals, to deliver-one-on-one coaching sessions, teleclasses, web-cast programs, and/or on-site workshops, around the materials.
• The possibility of customizing the program materials to meet your specific needs.

 

Benefits For Your Staff

Extremely time and cost effective process to help your staff:

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.

To view more information about the Managing My Life Programs,and other programs in the series, click here:  Managing My Life Programs

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