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Before Breakfast

The New Corner Office: Call a colleague to say goodbye

Before Breakfast

iHeartPodcasts

Education, Self-improvement

4.51.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2021

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

End the day with connection and accountability

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0:07.6

lives by following their instinct from guests like TycoYTT. Stick to your vision of what you're

0:14.5

trying to do. It's just more pure. The failure is more pure and the success is more pure.

0:18.7

This season delivers behind-the-scenes conversations about the many roads to success.

0:23.9

Listen to the Unimaginable on the iHeart Radio app Apple Podcast or wherever you get your

0:29.0

podcast.

0:35.9

Good morning. This is Laura. Welcome to the new corner office, the podcast where we share

0:42.6

strategies for thriving in the new world of work, where location and hours are more flexible than in

0:48.9

the past. Today's tip is to call a colleague to say goodbye. We all need a way to tell ourselves

0:57.7

that the workday is done. In the absence of a commute, calling a colleague to recap the day and

1:04.2

say goodbye is a great substitute. As millions of people have been working from home for the first

1:11.5

time in the wake of COVID-19, one of the toughest adjustments has been figuring out how to, well,

1:18.8

relax. When you can see your workspace from the rest of the house, it's easy to feel guilty

1:25.2

about not working all night long. And so, plenty of people do have work and have not work

1:31.8

into the wee hours. Commutes provide a natural transition between work and home.

1:38.6

Without a commute, you need some sort of other shutdown ritual. We've discussed different options

1:44.9

on this podcast before, but today I want to suggest one that you might not be doing.

1:50.4

Calling a colleague to say goodbye. In the office before you left, you probably circled

1:56.9

around saying your goodbyes to your immediate team. And this offered a nice way to catch up on

2:02.8

what was going on, to check in on anything still outstanding, and to set the norm of it being

2:09.3

okay to leave. You can recreate some aspects of this from your home office. You probably won't

2:16.6

call everyone, though, perhaps you could. Here's my rule. Any office that has a morning check-in

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