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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^^ totally agree with this. Have a great plan, write it out, and make sure it is understood well in advance of your due date.

I actually gained respect on my five month leave because my direct reports finally understood what my job entails. [/quote]

The advice here is what I did and speaking just for me it worked out very well. I created a memo, I outlined each and every duty and where it would go. Because all duties did not go to one person, I think it made everyone (certainly my boss!) relieved to have me back and made it almost impossible to imagine someone taking over the position. Of course there's a mindblowing amount of work that I do; I'm very fortunate that I am extremely fast and productive so it's a lot of duties I had to distribute to the team. I also made myself available to my boss once a week for a telephone call to go over any items that could not be resolved, which I think earned me a lot of goodwill and, to be frank, made coming back a lot easier. He did not use those phone calls often (I can only think of 3 times).

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