The Handover period came faster than I could have imagined! Before Jennifer, my replacement, started at Panasonic, I had to create a Handover Book for her, which came to be known as 'The PR Bible'! It was very odd to write down all of my day-to-day tasks, as everything had become second nature to me! I did stress to Jennifer that the book was only there for reference and that she didn't have to go home and learn everything by heart, as it was an extremely chunky bit of reading!
Jennifer started working at Panasonic on the 27th June and the handover was to last two weeks. In the first week, I showed Jen the ropes and went through a lot of the daily tasks with her and in the second week, it was all over to her! Everything happened so quickly, I'm sure it was a surreal experience for the both of us. As I had been extremely busy, in a way I hadn't yet had the time to process that in a short while, it would be my last day at Panasonic and I would be leaving the company! It didn't really hit me that I'd be going until my last day, when I was out with the PR Team for lunch - it was really sad!
More on the lovely PR Team a bit later, but for now - the rest of the handover! It was really weird showing someone else how to do the job and, at the beginning of the first week, I could see Jen becoming a little overwhelmed with all of the new information she had to process - I was exactly the same though, when I started! I reassured her that it was absolutely fine to feel that way, the team would be there to support her once I'd gone and that everything would eventually click into place. She asked me how long I thought it might be before everything started to calm down and feel 'normal' to her and I told her that I'd asked the PR student before me (Dawn) the very same question. Dawn said it would be exactly three months - and it was! So who knows, perhaps it will be the same for Jen, too!
Though it was bizarre to be handing over all of my responsibilities to somebody else, I know we've hired a corker for the PR role - Jen will have an amazing year!
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