HR Management & Compliance

Do You Train Your Employees on How to … Take Vacations?

Vacations are very important for a wellness lifestyle. All work and no play can not only lead to exhausted employees; it can also be dangerous to their health. That being the case, here are some ideas you can give your employees for stress-free vacation preparation.

Note that not all of these suggestions fit all kinds of jobs; instruct employees to choose the ones that fit their situation.

  • Plan vacation dates for slow times at work.
  • Put in for vacation well ahead, so your supervisor can plan for the absence. Work with your supervisor to arrange your workload around your time off.
  • Start the process of getting ahead several weeks before your vacation—rather than cramming in the week before.
  • Talk with coworkers about helping each other out for your respective vacations.
  • Set up a vacation e-mail notifying coworkers and customers of your absence and return date, and directing them to another source for their needs.
  • Set up a vacation voicemail with the same information. These steps are common courtesy and may help lessen your workload upon return as people get what they need from the source you list.

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Also help employees not to get stressed preparing their home for vacation either. Recommend that they make a To-Do List a week or so before they leave and check off one item a day. Here’s a suggested prep list:

  • Let trusted neighbors know you’ll be away. If you’ll be gone for a week or more, ask someone you trust to check your house every few days.
  • Arrange pet care.
  • Stop mail delivery. You can do this at www.usps.gov.
  • Stop newspaper delivery.
  • Set a light on a timer to turn on every evening and off by morning.
  • Unplug TVs and other electronic equipment.
  • Turn down the thermostat.

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This brief training about taking vacations can be accomplished fairly quickly. But what about other training topics, such as legal matters, leadership, or ethics? Can these issues be covered just as quickly?

Believe it or not, the answer is “yes,” and BLR has just the tool to accomplish it: 10-Minute HR Trainer.

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As its name implies, this product trains managers and supervisors in critical HR skills in as little as 10 minutes for each topic.

With this training resource, we’ve provided an easy-to-manage program that lets you train in discrete, 10-minute chunks. It’s a program that’s easy for you to deliver and that requires little time from busy schedules. And it’s remarkably affordable.

As its name implies, this product trains managers and supervisors in critical HR skills in as little as 10 minutes for each topic. 10-Minute HR Trainer offers these features:

Trains in 50 key HR topics, including manager and supervisor responsibilities, under all major employment laws and how to legally carry out managerial actions from hiring to termination. (See a complete list of topics below.)

Uses the same teaching sequence master teachers use. Every training unit includes an overview, bullet points on key lessons, a quiz, and a handout to later reinforce the lesson.

Completely prewritten and self-contained. Each unit comes as a set of reproducible documents. Just make copies or turn them into overheads and you’re done. (Take a look at a sample lesson below.)

Updated continually. As laws change, your training must as well. 10-Minute HR Trainer provides new lessons and updated information every 90 days, along with a monthly Training Forum newsletter, for as long as you are in the program.

Works fast. Each session is so focused that there’s not a second’s waste of time. Your managers are in and out almost before they can look at the clock, yet they remember small details even months later.

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