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I make the most gorgeous transition documents.
Everyone is super sad I'm leaving (I think about 20 different people begged me not to go), but I left them with a full channel of how-to videos including 6 playlists, individual documents mapping out every major process, examples and templates, a proposed Q2 plan, five whitepapers in progress with freelancers, and a giant map of where to find everything from executive bios to endorsements of last year's conference to use when they want to do another one. It's frickin' amazing, and I'm super proud of it. Oh, and put them in touch with someone who might potentially take one of the two jobs they've opened to replace me. I'm also going to call in for a couple hours next week to help with one webinar I'd planned before I knew I was leaving.
(Partially, I do still like and care about most of these people. Partially, if anyone I touched is ever looking for a marketing person five years down the line, they're going to remember me as amazing.)
It was pretty flattering, really, how many people were sad to see me go. (Should have hired me the assistant I wanted!) But at the same time, there's a bunch more developments that make me really happy with my decision to leave. And I had a couple calls with people who clearly are trying to decide how concerned they should be about various things. (Mostly my advice was that if you're ok with what you've got right now, it's ok to be ok with it. But if you're hoping something might change...well, stuff is going to change, but there's no reason to assume it will change in a way that will fix anything bothering you, and you shouldn't stay because you think things might get better. They won't.)
I am (hubristically, she said) exceptionally good at my job. I am not super great at career-ing. At least some is being bad at acting in office politics (great at reading them, terrible at doing anything effective with that information). Some is waffling on ambition. Hopefully the new place will work well enough for my goals. We'll see, I guess?
Everyone is super sad I'm leaving (I think about 20 different people begged me not to go), but I left them with a full channel of how-to videos including 6 playlists, individual documents mapping out every major process, examples and templates, a proposed Q2 plan, five whitepapers in progress with freelancers, and a giant map of where to find everything from executive bios to endorsements of last year's conference to use when they want to do another one. It's frickin' amazing, and I'm super proud of it. Oh, and put them in touch with someone who might potentially take one of the two jobs they've opened to replace me. I'm also going to call in for a couple hours next week to help with one webinar I'd planned before I knew I was leaving.
(Partially, I do still like and care about most of these people. Partially, if anyone I touched is ever looking for a marketing person five years down the line, they're going to remember me as amazing.)
It was pretty flattering, really, how many people were sad to see me go. (Should have hired me the assistant I wanted!) But at the same time, there's a bunch more developments that make me really happy with my decision to leave. And I had a couple calls with people who clearly are trying to decide how concerned they should be about various things. (Mostly my advice was that if you're ok with what you've got right now, it's ok to be ok with it. But if you're hoping something might change...well, stuff is going to change, but there's no reason to assume it will change in a way that will fix anything bothering you, and you shouldn't stay because you think things might get better. They won't.)
I am (hubristically, she said) exceptionally good at my job. I am not super great at career-ing. At least some is being bad at acting in office politics (great at reading them, terrible at doing anything effective with that information). Some is waffling on ambition. Hopefully the new place will work well enough for my goals. We'll see, I guess?
