Guide to managing vacations in the team
In this blog, I will provide a few steps managers can use to effectively manage team vacations and ensure no delays in team goals.
Many managers get scared when a team member wants to apply for vacation for a week or more.
Due to a lack of proper planning and expectation setting, team members randomly ask for vacations. This creates pressure on the Manager to balance the vacation approvals and ensure the deliverables from the team are on time.
All managers know vacation is one of the crucial parts of ensuring team members rejuvenate themselves. But also, it is equally important for the managers to make sure the team members do not abuse the system to go on vacation as they like.
In this blog, I will provide a few steps the managers can take to ensure no impacts due to team member vacations.
Steps that can help
Below are the steps that will help managers plan the vacations for the team in a way that does not impact team goals.
▸ Step#1: Expectation setting
Many managers make the mistake of not setting expectations on the process for requesting vacation time.
