Learning Areas
Teaching Standards
General Description
Retirement Planning will make the transition from work to the next phase of your life more purposeful and satisfying.
Retirement Coaching with us helps you to map out the financial and lifestyle implications of your current situation, and help you align your aims and ambitions for future change. With individuals tending to live longer, post-employment, Retirement Coaching will assist you to develop new skills, understand your finances better, and receive support to research your options with consciousness.
We will explain the Six Stages of Retirement, provide general advice on Pensions, Superannuation and Investments, and highlight the kinds of challenges you may face in retirement.
Are you thinking about retirement? Plan it properly with us – before you go ahead and do it!
Audience
• Individuals who are planning retirement
• Individuals who are retired
Available Delivery Formats
Format Description
24/7 lifetime course access
IMPORTANT INFORMATION:
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6.1.2 Proficient Level – Identify and plan professional learning needs
7.4.2 Proficient Level – Engage with professional teaching networks and broader communities
Are you in NSW? If so, this is relevant for you
Completing this course will contribute 6 hours of NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA) Registered PD addressing 6.1.2 & 7.4.2 from the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers towards maintaining Proficient Teacher Accreditation in NSW.
This course contributes to 6.0 professional development hours.
Occurrences
Sessions
Module 1A - Thoughts on retirement – how do you view retirement?
30 minutes
• Thoughts on retirement – how do you view retirement?
• Recognising the myths, facts, and life lessons
Module 1B - Your retirement readiness
1 hour and 30 minutes
• Your retirement readiness
• Work re-orientation to retirement
• Transition model into retirement
• The six stages of retirement – Robert Atchley model
Module 2 - Flourishing in retirement
1 hour
• Flourishing in retirement
• Reasons why many flounder in retirement
Module 3,4 & 5 - How to plan for retirement: personal, lifestyle, financial
3 hours
• Challenges to retirement
• Eleven steps to a happy retirement
• Checklist for a happy retirement
• Action plan
• Additional resources
User Rating
4.7Latest Reviews
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Retirement planning: Flourishing in retirement - Leah Shmerling
05/12/2019
Quite good. Too many American examples and terms.....some Australian, but should be 100% Australian
Retirement planning: Flourishing in retirement - Leah Shmerling
05/12/2019
Excellent, thank you!
Retirement planning: Flourishing in retirement - Leah Shmerling
25/07/2019
high quality, interesting topics and information
About the team
Leah Shmerling
Creator
Leah Shmerling is the Director and Principal Consultant of Career Coaching and Training, and is a Certified Retirement Coach. She is passionate about education, training and career development. With numerous higher level and vocational qualifications, and over thirty years’ experience in career development, education and training, she brings professionalism and depth of understanding to mentoring and professional development, career counselling and coaching, job seeking and retirement coaching.
Since commencing employment, Leah has undertaken work in complementary areas that includes: corporate training, teaching in the tertiary sector and vocational training, and career counselling/coaching clients from a range of backgrounds and levels.
Leah is a Workshop Leader for Small Business Victoria, facilitating programs across Victoria. For many years, she has facilitated training programs for professional associations that include: the Victorian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VECCI), CPA, the Australian Retailers Association of Victoria, and the Australian Institute of Management (AIM).
Leah is the developer, writer and producer of two online short courses: Mentoring and Development, and Foundations in Career Development Practice (incorporating CHCSS00005 Career Development Practice Skill Set).
Mentoring and development supports the professional practice of those who are seeking to unlock their potential for higher level performance. The process enhances professional learning and insight to reach a higher level of understanding to integrate into your work, as a process of continuous improvement.
The Foundations in Career Development (incorporating CHCSS00005 Career Development Practice Skill Set) course. The course provides individuals with a career development framework and ethical standards, designed to complement the professional practice of those who work or seek to work in careers, employment, education and training services, human resources, or industry specialist services.
With a strong writing background, Leah is a published author with Macmillan Education Australia of two books titled: Job Applications: The Winning Edge 1993, which sold nationally and overseas, with a second edition published in 1998, and Communication In The Workplace, 1996, using a competency based approach for the TAFE and professional market.
For many years, Leah has worked as a freelance journalist and has written for The Age – Education, Employment and Business, and is a former columnist and freelance writer with the Herald Sun – Learn. Leah has also written professional and business publications. Currently, Leah is a Published Writer on LinkedIn, and online professional publications.
Leah holds a Master in Professional Education and Training, Graduate Diploma in Career Development, a number of Diploma qualifications in Vocational Educational Training, and Certificates in Life Coaching, Mediation Skills, and Psychodrama.
Leah is a professional member of the Career Development Association Australia (CDAA). She has international accreditation and is Board Certified as a Career Management Fellow with the Institute of Career Certification. Leah is a Certified Retirement Coach with Retirement Options.