PRE & POST-RETIREMENT TRAINING PROGRAMME IN NIGERIA

      PRE & POST-RETIREMENT TRAINING    

                           PROGRAMME

                                                       BY

                                     OKONGO TAMBU EBUTA

OUR MISSION:

To attain a leading role in knowledge dissemination, utilized to promote industrial harmony amongst employees and employers through human capital empowerment.

 OBJECTIVE OF TRAINING:

A)   TO EMPLOYEES:

Ø Help achieve a happy, healthy, productive and well-balanced retirement.

Ø Introduce clients to the new and stress-free lifestyle that retirement can produce.

Ø Evaporate the fears and financial worries that can be associated with retirement.

Ø Advise clients on the world of opportunities and enjoyment that can exist during retirement.

Ø Equip clients with optional plans that are in place for retirement in addition to legal matters such as wills among others.

Ø Guide clients define their visions and missions in life, and how to plan towards achieving them.

Ø Develop clients’ career and financial paths/plans towards achieving their visions and missions.

Ø Prepare rather than do everything at the last minute or lose track.

Ø At the end of the workshop, retirees should be able to see retirement as a blessing and not an end to a happy life, face the reality and inevitability of the change with optimism setup and successfully manage their business and live longer through better management of their health and relationship during retirement.

 TO THE EMPLOYERS:

Ø When employees are certain about their future in retirement and plan towards same, there would be reduced corruption in society.

Ø In training them, they are assisted to achieve personal success, thus improving on their self confidence.

Ø Training employees to better themselves is a goodwill and motivational approach to improving on their commitment to the organization and leaving with a positive sense of the belonging, which is really important to employees.

Ø In all, note that we are not financial advisers, however if required we can give clients names of local advisers.

                                                    RETIREMENT:                        

                                                   In life we are in transit either at our workplaces, or business engagements or even life itself. You must pass by, from one activity to another even unto death.

                                                   In this case, it is passing on from active service unto a less active one, which is retirement.

Retirement is therefore an exit into less active undertakings, which does not necessarily mean a fore-closure of your pursuits.

                                                   The new Webster’s dictionary defines retirement “as the giving up of active participation in a business or other occupation, especially because of advance age”.

It is when you stop living at work and start working at living.

                                                    However, most retirees, especially in Africa, dread retirement which is supposed to be a joyful expectation because it is foreseeable, except in unforeseen circumstances.

                                                    Our training is therefore focused on reversing this attitude of doubtful expectation to glorious/celebrated expectations.

This would be achieved through designed training  programme outlines meant to teach our clients how to plan for their retirements and retire joyfully

                                                   The course length is dependent on the needs of the clients. However, we will abridge it to meet the target time of organisers ,while ensuring that you achieve your required awareness with the seminar scope.

 A) Pre-retirement planning awareness

We will deal with concerns such as:

- where you are today;

Ø Assess your resources

- where you want to go;

Ø Define what retirement means to you, your vision and cost implications, social security etc

- how  do you get there;

Ø Sound financial planning including estate, and taxes

- what decisions do you face;

Ø Savings, investment, pensions, rollovers among others

- resources and contacts among others which will encompass such salient issues as your mission and vision, psychological implications of retirement/attitudes, home movement, medical, time usage, change  of jobs(paid ,or part time, or  voluntary, or running your own business),family pressures, hobbies and interest,  budget and development plans, and terminal benefits expectations and utilization

B) Retirement option plans.

 Outlay of retirement options and step by step considerations for retirement.

                                                     C) Executing the retirement plan.

Study groups to consider proposals for retirement