Cliff Notes: Preparing for a Career Break

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Maybe you're done with work completely, Maybe you just need a longer break, maybe four weeks. Maybe your company does offer a sabbatical program and you haven't taken advantage of it before filling the brain reason, I want you to prepare well. And as you're preparing well, I want you to take into consideration mindset. How can you be creative? What societal, generational or cultural norms might you need to separate from to help you make those decisions? And who

needs to support you. Deth One is to do your research. When you're thinking about taking a career break for whatever reason, do your research. Google is free or safari thing right, We don't, We're we're equal opportunity search engine folks here, right, whatever your search engine, the choices, use it. Start connecting with your network. Who are the folks in your what we call them at my company, what we call them?

Your top five or your trusted ten or your board of directors, who are the sponsors, who are the mentors, who are the folks that typically pour into you that you can use as a sounding board that you can start having these conversations with, And the conversation starts real simply, Hey, I'm thinking about stepping away from work for six weeks, and let those words hang out in the air. Get used to saying, Hey, I think I need to step away for a month. You know what my company offers,

a sabbatical. I think I'm going to take advantage of that and let those words hang out. See what comes back from your research, See what comes back with your network, and while you're doing your research, especially if you're in a more nine to five type situation, get mega familiar with your HR folks, Get mega familiar with your employe handbook.

Now prior to executive coaching, running my own business, just setting across the world, scared with my Dramamine in one hand and my Metallica playlist in the other, so I can have something super distracting on the plane. I also came from a very strict and stringent corporate environment. Again, I go back to I've been drinking stale breakroom coffee with an asset managed laptop and a badge since I was nineteen, so I know how the rules of that

road goes. Also in that corporate space, I was a humble HR practitioner, so multiple sides of the house, from training and documentation to employee relations, recruiting, onboarding, talent acquisition, benefits, administration, and wealth management. If there was a policy in our company, I knew about it. If there was a handbook to be written, I absolutely knew about it. I would like you to take that same level of inquiry, that same level of research into your prep work. Find out does

your company have a sabbatical program. I have a partner coach who did her first in person event and she brought up the topic of sabbaticals. She knew that the company that she was working with offered a sabbatical program. And in the conference room, Razi said, hey, hey, raise your hand if you know about such and such a

sabbatical program, and like two people raise their hands. But it was a company thing, like the company offered it, and the rest of the one hundred and fifty people in that room didn't know that their company offered a sabbatical program. So that's what I'm talking about when we say do your research. Step two is to really consider all of the impacts you're considering. You're letting those words hang out there. You may be doing some math on

the back of a napkin. You're not limiting yourself here, but you're thinking about all the spaces you being away from work will impact. And typically the biggest impact is the pockets. Our money is going to be the biggest driver of a career break, a sabbatical, or if it's time to step away from work. So what might that

mean for you? You may be considering your budget here as a household, you may be considering things that you may cut out of the budget for a certain period of time so you can facilitate not being at work for four weeks, six weeks.

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nails done, hang with the friends. All that goes into the impact when you're thinking about your career break and your sabbatical. Health is another one. If you decide to make a clean break, maybe post layoff, and you say, I'm actually not going to go back into the workforce. Yeah, so what does healthcare look like for you? Going back to bullet point Number one, do your research. Once you've asked all the universe the bigger questions, start to develop

your plan or strategy. It doesn't have to be perfect. It just has to work for you, right. It doesn't have to be at the income level or the income bracket of your peer, or your mom, or your sore role or your flat brother from college. It needs to work for you. And so as you're developing that plan and strategy draft, have that as a workable document. Maybe you start having those conversations what are the bullet points, what are their stops and starts in your plan? With

your network. If you're asking for a career breaker, you're going to tap into that sabbatical program that your company offers. Awesome. Maybe the ask now that you have your data, Now that you know kind of what the financial impacts are, what are the family impacts, what are those health impacts? You can start to have the conversation with your boss, your leader, your skip level, whoever that may be. Start

to engage your stakeholders. You're thinking about taking a break, quitting your job, or going on a sabbatical, who does that impact within your place of employment? I want to pause here for the entrepreneurs in the room, especially the individuals who are true and tried solopreneurs. You are the CFO, the CEO, you are the sous chef. You are the janitorial waste compliance person of your company, as well as the administrative assistant. All these steps still apply to you.

You get to divide your research considering the impacts developing your planner strategy with the multiple facets of your personality. Right when you think about your business, are you out of space to leave the startup role move into plan B or move into a session B strategy where you're ready to scale your business? Do you have to do

that before the end of the year. Are there projects within your business or are there product launches that you're thinking about that you may want a slow role, Maybe take some time off with that long money, and then come back six months, eight months, and maybe be even a more refreshed, a more gooder entrepreneur when you come back. Right, same still applies here if you're running your own business. Either way, when you're having those communications, make sure you

give enough notice. You decide to step away for a career break and you're going to be gone a month, who's doing your work? While you're gone. Who needs to take into consideration some of the productivity impacts in your place of employment? Do you run a team, do you have direct reports that typically come to you. What's going to be their what's going to be their level of authority? What permissions might they need while you're out? What privilege and access do you need to grant them before you

step aside? And lastly, keep the receipts. And what I'm saying here is get it all in writing. If you are going to your employer and you're saying, hey, can I take a career break? This is the reason why I want to take a career break, and here's the data behind it, and they say yes, absolutely. The toy you can take a career break for four weeks and we'll see you back in a month. Get it in writing,

even if the conversation is verbal. Summarize that conversation via email, and keep all of the receipts from the time that you plan and prep to the time you make the ask, moving on to the time that you take the break, and what's going to happen when you come back. If you come back, we'll get.