What is End-of-Career / Retirement Coaching and How can it Help My Agency? – Menzies
Abstract:
Many federal agencies have 30%, 40%, or even more retirement eligible staff. With many retirement-eligible employees eligible to leave at any given moment, leaving organizations, programs, and projects at risk of being able to offer ongoing capable services.
Being able to provide a program that supports your retirement-eligible employees to prepare for this major life transition can help maintain continuity within your federal agency. When employees have a chance to explore their current role and identity, they can better support succession planning and be mentally and emotionally ready to retire.
In 2024, Menzies Coach & Consulting performed an End-of-Career / Retirement Coaching pilot program within a federal agency. The pilot program focused on preparing employees for the emotional, psychological, and social readiness to leave their professional career as they prepared themselves personally for their next chapter of life.
The End-of-Career / Retirement Coaching pilot program consisted of five one-hour individual coaching sessions that covered the following topic areas:
- Session 1: Setting the stage and envisioning your future
- Session 2: Your professional journey
- Session 3: Your personal transformation
- Session 4: Develop a professional succession plan or explore more into how you will show up in your personal life
- Session 5: Next steps
In this presentation, we will review the coaching program, identify short-term benefits to the organization and the employees, and discuss long-term benefits that are currently monitored.
Learning Objective
- Be able to define End-of-career/ Retirement Coaching
- Understand how coaching programs tailored to retirement eligible can enhance your organizations readiness for ongoing continuity and improve employee morale.
PMI Talent Triangle: Ways of Working
PDUs: 0.75
