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Nice summary. 2 points that I think are important:

1. Use this opportunity to give a valuable experience to someone. Don’t always pick the easiest choice, maybe someone else can take it and use the chance to grow.

2. After doing all of the above, make sure to keep your manager in the loop. Things can change in your absence, and you’ll never foresee everything. Having them prepared will save a lot of headache for everyone.

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Thanks Anton. Good additions.

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Good planning and preparation sets the path to success.

Great points, Raviraj! 🎯

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You're right Raviraj, if we don't have a clear point of contact and assume that someone will "step up", that really doesn't happen. Great article!

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Yea, seen that happen way too many times now. Thanks for the support.

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Simple and easy ideas. I love that.

Usually it's annoying when someone leaves without cleaning up behind them. Or if they leave without a handover document. I like the illustrations, spot on!

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Glad you loved it. I am experimenting with shortening my message and keeping them simple now. So I appreciate the call out.

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This is good, different content and probably the first one to come up with this topic.

Good to know as I did the same last year, put a thorough document with point of contact for each item, share with all relevant groups, also share your calendar time off so they know, syncing with critical teams before might be a good idea as well.

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Love that callout! I have many other unique topics in my newsletter archive so take a look and many more to come this year.

Glad the message resonated with you.

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Great tips, Raviraj, not just before leave but all year!

Planning is super important, as well as being realistic about how much time you have left before your leave. It's important not to be overly ambitious because we might have less time remaining than we think.

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The image people have of us is created mostly by how they interact with our work when we are not in front of them.

There's no worse feeling than having to deal with other people's mess (even if they tried their best, but didn't hand it off properly).

I like especially the planning ahead part. With enough time you avoid the team depending on you and focus on mechanisms where you add value, but are not the single point of failure.

Great tips, Raviraj.

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