It’s vacation season. How do you manage clients’ expectations that you’ll be available whenever they want you? Six ideas today in my How To column at Copyediting.com.
“With Canadians taking Monday and Tuesday off and US workers taking Friday off, it hardly seems worth making the effort for Wednesday and Thursday. What say we just call it and all start our summers with a full week of relaxing. Ok? Okay.”
A final point of procedure
Clients don’t need to know what you’re up to unless you are particularly chummy or looking for that kind of relationship. You are simply “out of the office.” Unless you are going to a skill-building conference and want to show that off. Then definitely tell clients why you’re being so selfish with your time.
Photo by Nattu used under CC BY-2.0 license, with title overlay by Dawn McIlvain Stahl at Copyediting.com.
