It’s New Year’s Day and that end of the long break/going back to work cloud descends on me as it always does.
I love the Christmas break, possibly even more than the summer break and when it comes to an end it does bother me even though I love what I do – those days of doing nothing, hanging around the house and relaxing are so enjoyable but at some point you have to get back to reality.
When I started to think more about the first day back I started to look forward to seeing our crew again. While the break was great it would be good to see them all again and catch up.
During the course of a year we spend a lot of time together and it’s natural that you get to know everyone quite well and you do form special relationships, even if it is predominantly in a work context.
The more I thought about seeing the crew again I thought about greeting them after not having seen them for the best part of two weeks.
For me the natural greeting for each of them would be a hug – a genuine warm hug, which reflects how I feel about all of them.
I would hate to be heading back to work and to be meeting anyone in our team who I didn’t like, who I didn’t feel any connection with, who I preferred not to spend time with. That would be awful and in the course of my career I have been in that place more than once.
My cloud cleared and I was now actually looking forward to getting back to work.
Will your first day back at work pass the Hug test?
Greg Canty is a partner of Fuzion
Fuzion are a Marketing, PR and Graphic Design agency in Ireland with offices in Cork and Dublin
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