Three Essential Holiday Planning Tasks for Leaders
How to effectively plan for the holiday break
The holiday season is fast looming, and it’s time to get organized at home and work.
At home, planning is all about buying presents, getting that pine tree up, and agreeing on who will host Christmas Day.
You have to plan for the holidays at work, too, and it’s more than what to buy Fred in accounts for Secret Santa. You have to finish this year’s work and get set up for next year.
And in the flurry of the holiday season, it’s easy to get overwhelmed.
When I managed high street stores in retail, I worked until the store closed on Christmas Eve. It was a fun workday, especially when I managed a costume jewelry shop. I was in the UK, so the weather was cold and Christmassy, sometimes with a bit of snow, but always that lovely crisp smell of winter.
By 11.00 am, the store was chock full of men, frantically throwing money at us in exchange for sparkling diamante necklaces and earrings. It was fun, fast, and festive.
After work, getting home to my family meant a 2-hour evening train journey in the dark, laden with presents. I remember being jealous of people in offices who knocked off early and who I assumed spent December in an orgy of…
