Achieved Career Clarity and Legacy Planning for Retirement Transition in Higher Education

Dr. Linda Latham (00:00) The main reason that I would strongly recommend working with Beth to others the helpful support that I felt that I got at this point in my career. I would really have benefited from working with a coach like Coach Beth or specifically Coach Beth some years ago in my career. I think that the skills were developed that she helped to bring out in me were able to help me to clarify the real issues. whether it was personal things that were impacting my work or people around me at work. Barriers within myself. The thoughts and feelings that I might be having whether it's regarding personal situations or professional situations at work. Now I have the tools to be able to pause in real time, and to be able to manage those feelings, and to be able to move forward in positive ways when I'm around other people. Hi, my name is Dr. Linda Latham, and I'm a nurse educator. Before working with Coach Beth, well, I've been a nurse for years, and approaching, you know, probably the last final years of my career. And so what's been really super helpful for me was to think about to change my perspective on in my career, and things I want to accomplish because I've been able to do a lot of that already. I felt like I needed clarity on how to proceed toward planning for retirement, and, kind of, the wind down of my career. What kind of legacy and things that I wanted to do in my final years of my career. Working with Coach Beth in the initial phases when I was a little more hesitant, I began to work with her, and the way she communicates is very encouraging, it's very accepting. I think that was a big piece of it. That I could be myself. And that's a little hard for me sometimes, again, in the professional space, in the workspace. Not to always have those guards up, and that sort of thing. that was all very helpful to me. Before working with Coach Beth, I have had over 25 years in higher education in the health sciences and nursing education, and have achieved a doctoral degree, a couple of master's degrees. So I have had a lot of experience - administrative roles that were very significant in my career. And so my coaching was not so much to achieve the next higher administrative role or something like that, but rather mine was more to obtain clarity in what's next. And so through this program and through working with Beth, I feel that I was really able define, and really feel that clarity come through very confidently. She gives you some internal tools and ways to view yourself as well as the things and situations around you. Ways, for example, of managing anxious feelings related to work situations or personal situations. I feel more confident in setting professional direction, in being able to navigate through some of those moments in life - in personal life and in career. What surprised the most about working with Coach Beth, I believe, was the to what we talked about, what I learned through working with Coach Beth. to my personal life, to my personal relationships, to relationships with my coworkers. Even the way to view the larger institution where I work, and its impact on me. To really have a way of framing that, and how it affects me and how it doesn't affect me, honestly. And so all of those ways were surprising and really satisfying after working with Coach Beth. Some of the changes that I have observed in our team's collaboration and our communication style with each other, we and we reflect briefly before engaging in responses or opinions, those kind of things. And we have a very dynamic team as anyone in higher education, particularly in the health sciences, know that we are strong teams. And sometimes that's a challenge with communication, with making decisions, with collaborating, innovating, being on the same page. I just feel a sense of more respect with, you know, seeing each other for what we're bringing to the table. I would highly recommend Coach Beth for those who are seeking leadership support and development. I have experienced lots of leadership development programs, but this one was very, very personal, and very impactful, and I would highly recommend working with Coach Beth.