double stress when your colleague is on vacation: keep it in mind!

The leave period! Always fun. If it's yours. From the moment your colleague closes the work door behind him, the phone is twice as glowing, his/her forwarded mailbox comes in via yours, your bin bends under the extra mail, etc. Pffffffhhhh! Solution:

No more leave!

Simple: just tell your colleague Jef, you're not allowed to go on vacation anymore!
In the unlikely event that does not work, here is an - although less attractive - alternative

Everyone is easily informed about your vacation!

When you go on vacation, make it a habit to send everyone who should know a meeting request (CTRL+SH+Q):

This way, your Outlook schedule shows at the top that it may be a somewhat busier period for others and they can already take this into account. And vice versa, of course, the same applies to you: provide buffer time when your colleagues are on vacation!

In addition, this way, leave is immediately displayed in the agenda, for those who share calendars.

Action!

• Plan your next vacations right away!
• Work immediately - meeting request - on your already approved leave for this year! Check!

You are a manager?

• What is the current schedule and period of leave in your team?
• Set a good example yourself, report on your vacation periods - great, isn't it?
- and discuss the tip in your next team meeting.
• By the way, you can also proactively schedule other hectic times with a meeting request:
  when I was still really working, the last 2 weeks of June, the first week of September and the last 3 weeks of December turned out to be challying weeks. With the meeting request, I always found this at the top of the agenda in the planning, a sign that I had best taken this into account and did not throw in too much weight. At a training, I even met an HR manager who, after this tip in her agenda, already carefully planned the classic illness period and proactively warned about it at the MT meetings.