It’s often difficult to get back into the swing of things after a holiday or a long Bank Holiday weekend.

A Bank Holiday Monday seems like a Sunday.
Tuesday back at work feels like a Monday.
Your normal weekly routine feels out of sync by a day.

To avoid this having an impact on your meetings and appointments in the week:

• Check out your diary the week before, so you know where you need to be and what you’re doing on your first day back at work.
• Don’t overload your first day back.
• Move appointments, if you need to, so you have space and time to catch up after a few days break.
• Refresh your memory by checking your calendar the night before.  Frequent review, reinforces it in your own mind.
• Double check again the first morning and set reminders if you’re likely to be in ‘Monday’ mode so that you don’t miss an important meeting or call.
• Scan through your emails quickly to make sure you don’t miss anything important.  Either deal with them there and then – if they only require a couple of minutes, or flag them to work on later.