How to Plan The Summer If You are a Business Owner
Do not take your summer vacation as a waste of time. Rest is your resource. You should recharge, it will allow you to return to work with full energy and to achieve more significant goals than you can do in an exhausted condition.
An owner of a business sometimes needs more rest than an employee. Business owners have a huge responsibility for the destiny of their projects and services. They work without days off or with minimal rest time, they often feel too exhausted and tired, and this condition affects the quality of their work and the success of their product or service.
So, how to plan your vacation and time off in the summer and not to decrease your company's efficiency?
When to plan it?
Summer is usually a slow down time for many small businesses, except the season ones. People spend money on their vacations, they buy less goods and use less services, they are relaxed and don't want to take efforts and to work more. That's why a lot of small and even middle-size businesses have less customers and less income in the summer. This is not bad – this is normal. Use this time to plan your own vacation too – it is reasonable to have a rest while your customers are having a rest, too.
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Inform your co-workers and customers
In advance, inform your employees and subordinates, your customers and business partners, suppliers and other related people about when and for how long you plan to go on vacation. Close all questions related to your work for this time, or delegate - if necessary - your duties to those employees who stay in the office for the time of your absence. Make a newsletter and publish on your official website the dates of your vacation, write down the message to the work answering machine, if your secretary also goes on vacation or the whole company plan to have a time off. Determine in advance whether you will be available - and to what extent. It is desirable to disconnect from work issues, but sometimes it's just impossible. Tell your employees how and when you can be found. Inform them about the limitations of such contacts.
Make an additional plan for the summer
In the summer, most employees and business partners leave on vacation, even if some of them plan to have a rest for a very short time. Contact in advance all the people with whom your work is related, ask them about the time they plan to have a time off. Make a schedule and enter their vacation dates into this plan. Basing on the achieved picture, create a new plan for the summer to make your work most effective in the absence of certain employees or business partners in the workplace and even on the phone. Make a list of tasks for those who remain in your place. The tasks that you want to do yourself it is better to postpone for a while after the vacation.
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Make yourself to have a rest
Give up any ideas about working tasks during your vacation. Do not check your email every two hours, do not take any work tasks with you, leave your office mobile phone at home. You do not go on vacation in order to work there. Your brain and body need a full recharge and a complete and absolute distraction from the work tasks, otherwise there is no point to start all this up and waste your time - just in a different place, not in the office. If you plan and delegate everything correctly, nothing bad will happen to your business. Make yourself to have a full and good rest, no matter what happens. You must do this to be more effective after your vacation.
When you return to work
Give yourself about three days to recover and return to the normal and comfortable working flow. Assign the simplest tasks for this time. Psychologically and physically you are still resting - and the very forced return can become a serious stress that will reduce the effect of your rest. Appoint meetings with colleagues, ask how they coped with tasks during your absence, make plans for the next weeks or months.
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You can make a few interesting brainstormings or play business games with your employees - remember that your way back into the working rhythm should be gradual and comfortable.
Have a nice rest!
© Assiomatica SA
How to Plan The Summer If You are a Business Owner
An owner of a business sometimes needs more rest than an employee. Business owners have a huge responsibility for the destiny of their projects and services. They work without days off or with minimal rest time, they often feel too exhausted and tired, and this condition affects the quality of their work and the success of their product or service.
So, how to plan your vacation and time off in the summer and not to decrease your company's efficiency?
When to plan it?
Summer is usually a slow down time for many small businesses, except the season ones. People spend money on their vacations, they buy less goods and use less services, they are relaxed and don't want to take efforts and to work more. That's why a lot of small and even middle-size businesses have less customers and less income in the summer. This is not bad – this is normal. Use this time to plan your own vacation too – it is reasonable to have a rest while your customers are having a rest, too.
Work & Weekend: How to Find a Balance for Success
Inform your co-workers and customers
In advance, inform your employees and subordinates, your customers and business partners, suppliers and other related people about when and for how long you plan to go on vacation. Close all questions related to your work for this time, or delegate - if necessary - your duties to those employees who stay in the office for the time of your absence. Make a newsletter and publish on your official website the dates of your vacation, write down the message to the work answering machine, if your secretary also goes on vacation or the whole company plan to have a time off. Determine in advance whether you will be available - and to what extent. It is desirable to disconnect from work issues, but sometimes it's just impossible. Tell your employees how and when you can be found. Inform them about the limitations of such contacts.
Make an additional plan for the summer
In the summer, most employees and business partners leave on vacation, even if some of them plan to have a rest for a very short time. Contact in advance all the people with whom your work is related, ask them about the time they plan to have a time off. Make a schedule and enter their vacation dates into this plan. Basing on the achieved picture, create a new plan for the summer to make your work most effective in the absence of certain employees or business partners in the workplace and even on the phone. Make a list of tasks for those who remain in your place. The tasks that you want to do yourself it is better to postpone for a while after the vacation.
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Make yourself to have a rest
Give up any ideas about working tasks during your vacation. Do not check your email every two hours, do not take any work tasks with you, leave your office mobile phone at home. You do not go on vacation in order to work there. Your brain and body need a full recharge and a complete and absolute distraction from the work tasks, otherwise there is no point to start all this up and waste your time - just in a different place, not in the office. If you plan and delegate everything correctly, nothing bad will happen to your business. Make yourself to have a full and good rest, no matter what happens. You must do this to be more effective after your vacation.
When you return to work
Give yourself about three days to recover and return to the normal and comfortable working flow. Assign the simplest tasks for this time. Psychologically and physically you are still resting - and the very forced return can become a serious stress that will reduce the effect of your rest. Appoint meetings with colleagues, ask how they coped with tasks during your absence, make plans for the next weeks or months.
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You can make a few interesting brainstormings or play business games with your employees - remember that your way back into the working rhythm should be gradual and comfortable.
Have a nice rest!
© Assiomatica SA
