Late career and retirement
What we do
As the population ages, many older workers look forward to their late career and retirement.
Organisations that understand the importance of providing support through this life phase may see a range of benefits, including higher staff engagement, better knowledge management, fewer injuries and strong reputation post-exit.
About Late Career and Retirement Coaching
Late Career Coaching
Designed to support people who are wanting to take a proactive approach during the later stages of their career, our late career coaches help workers build definition around late career, evaluate goals for the future, and start building the foundations to plan for retirement.
Retirement Coaching
Spanning three phases of retirement: preparing for retirement, leaving work, and adjusting to retirement, our retirement coaching is delivered over five hours of individual coaching tailored to the unique needs of your workers.
Partner Retirement Transition Coaching
Whether you are retiring completely, switching to contract consultancy work, or wanting to ramp down sooner than later – you need a plan. Encompassing 6.5 hours of individual coaching around specific needs, our Partner Retirement Transitioning Coaching program provides the tools and resources to maximise transition success for partners in professional service firms.
Workshops to support late career and retirement
Late career is the life-stage from around 50 years where people set goals and make decisions that influence their personal, social, economic and employment situation in preparation for retirement. It is an important stage of life as we make work-related choices that carry us through to a fulfilling retirement.
Late Career and Retirement Management Capability Training (for Managers and HR)
Comprised of a suite of modules, and complemented by e-learning and online conversation simulations, this comprehensive training will equip your managers with the tools and skills they need to manage an ageing workforce, and assist in managing the transition to retirement.
Thinking Ahead to Late Career: Laying the Groundwork
This 1 to 1.5-hour session unpacks the common challenges or concerns that can come during the late career stage, and looks at the tools and resources we can use to navigate these, so that we can plan our late career in a way that is sustainable, and adaptable for our future selves.
Retiring Well: Building a Bridge to Retirement
Moving beyond the traditional financial and physical health considerations, this 1 to 1.5-hour session explores ways to maximise wellbeing in the lead up to retirement and after you stop working by considering TW’s pillars of ‘Work, Wealth, Home and Health’.
Thriving in Retirement
In this 1 to 1.5-hour post-retirement workshop we unpack four phases of retirement (vacation, loss, trial and error; and reinvention and rewiring) and offer supportive strategies to both maintain connection and build on strategies for thriving in retirement.
Retirement Action Planning
Building on the key factors of a healthy retirement, this 1 to 1.5-hour workshop supports individuals to build high levels of hope, self-efficacy, resilience and optimism. Participants are guided through a robust process of creating multiple pathways to their retirement goal, considering the resources available to them, identifying barriers to success and tackling any thinking traps that may hinder success.
Maturity of Practice Index (MPI)
Transitioning Well’s MPI offers a unique mix of psychological, legal and business-focused perspectives to help build effective policies and procedures that support ageing and age-diverse workforces.
During our expert review process we partner collaboratively with organisations to identify the most significant points of leverage so that they can invest in the most valuable areas from an ageing workforce ready perspective.
Through our approach employers gain insight into the four pillars of an ageing workforce (i.e. Roadmap, Recruitment, Retention and Retirement). Using this framework we bring together information from a review of internal policies and procedure documents, focus groups and interviews with key stakeholders, and tailored insights form the research literature. The resulting report will include recommendations that allow you to proactively support an ageing workforce.
The MPI process includes:
- Desktop document review.
- Interviews and focus groups.
- Tailored report.
- Presentation of findings to stakeholders.
Thought leadership and resources
We have a variety of digital resources that further support retirement pathways and an ageing workforce – from late career to unretirement.
Our white papers explore topics in more depth, and are designed for HR, Senior Leaders, Managers and Employees to increase awareness and guide change.
- The Age Difference:
How to foster performance and wellbeing in older workers. - Late Career Navigation:
How to make the most of living and working for longer. - Unretirement:
Transition pathways in retirement.
The resources were developed through funding from WorkSafe Victoria’s WorkWell Mental Health Improvement Fund.
Career Transition Series
Many of us will experience career transitions in our lifetime - whether it is having a baby or a career change, managing a personal crisis, or retiring from the workforce altogether. As an employer or manager, it can be hard to know how best to support someone during these times of career transition.
The Career Transition Series provides workplaces with research-led and practical approaches. It shares the stories of organisations supporting their people through eight key transitions, highlights what has worked and relays lessons for others.
As the population ages, many older workers look forward to their late career and retirement, however each experience can be different and there are a range of mental health risk that employers need to be aware of, and consider in their practices. The Late Career & Retirement transition guide provides valuable guidance for employers of ageing workers.
Developed in partnership with National Mental Health Commission, the series was produced through the National Workplace Initiative after research and consultation highlighted the need for guidance on supporting career transitions.
Team Dynamics Training (PsyCap)
Empower your leaders to best support people through the late career and retirement transitions with team dynamics training.
Together, you can unpack the challenges that present in this life-changing time of transition, and build positive thinking patterns that can challenge and replace deep-seated assumptions and beliefs, and ultimately build team cohesion to ensure sustainable practices across this important life-work transition.
