Retirement coaching: Is it Time to Explore your ENCORE?
Retirement is a deeply personal experience: we’re living longer and aging better, there’s no longer a blueprint for how or when people retire.
Retirement should be a liberating and exciting prospect, but endless choice can cause you to feel confused and uncertain about what to do next. Maybe the idea of an ‘encore’ is more appealing to you than traditional retirement? To help you plan your encore, Futurum Group has created the ENCORE coaching programme. It’s a series of 90-minute one-to-one sessions designed to help you reconnect with yourself after a full-on career and plan for the next exciting phase. Investing this time to plan is key to happiness and success.
As Celia Dodd author of Not Fade Away: How to Thrive in Retirement, told us during Futurum Group’s event How to Make Retirement a Positive Experience: “There’s an old fashioned idea that retirement is something passive. In fact you have to be more proactive in retirement than you ever do at any other stage in your life, to make it work. You’ve got to be self-motivated. What can help is more planning and seeing it in a positive light.”
This idea resonates with Futurum Group’s co-founder Graeme Menzies’ experience. His experience of retirement following 30 years as a lawyer in a national law firm, made him reflect on what support people need at this stage: “It’s really important to analyse what you’re going to miss and what you’ll be pleased to leave behind” explains Graeme. “Work out what you enjoy (or really don’t enjoy), so that you can balance the positive and negative aspects which will help you develop a fulfilling sense of purpose and direction in the next phase.”
Speaking from his personal experience he adds: “I didn’t really feel ready or prepared to retire. While there was plenty of coaching and training for people in their careers and leadership roles, there was a gap in coaching and training in preparation for retirement.” This ‘gap’ was the catalyst for Graeme’s own encore: the launch of Futurum Group and the ENCORE coaching programme.
Clients have found the programme extremely beneficial in preparing for the next stage, one told us recently: “I am pleased to have found Futurum’s ENCORE coaching programme extremely helpful in planning the next phase of my life. It was an interesting and challenging process. It helped me take time out from client demands to reflect on my own values and options for a new and fulfilling sense of purpose. The coaching helped me clarify my thinking and priorities. I would thoroughly recommend Futurum's ENCORE programme to anyone coming up to retirement or moving on.”
To start planning your encore, contact us to arrange a free virtual consultation. Sarah 07581148550 or email sarah@futurumgroup.co.uk Graeme 07771564520 or email graeme@futurumgroup.co.uk.
