When I first moved from Nebraska (2003), we moved near Atlanta, GA. There was a flight pattern above our home - the standard path followed by an aircraft when taking off or landing. I have long been a frequent airline traveler, yet had never thought about how well organized and structured air travel is, let alone given any thought to how consistently and frequently planes took off and landed.

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Two decades and many moves later, we lived in Florida over the past two years, and once again found ourselves very near an airport (a small one this time). On any given day, small private airplanes flew directly overhead - all on orchestrated paths, fully planned out. Most of us take airline travel for granted, in part, because there are regulations, an order to the industry, and rules that everyone must follow. We also don’t often take the time to draw connections to the patterns that are present in our life. We don’t normalize situations or moments that we can’t see or experience.

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*we're now living outside of Atlanta, the busiest airport in the world! Seems I cannot escape airplanes in my environment.

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Over the past few years, my consulting and interim leadership work has taken me on many, many flights, sometimes repeated multiple flights week after week. Through my work, I spend a lot of time inviting others to consider small, but powerful, mindset shifts that are required in order to step into the accountability that is necessary with the reality that People Leave.
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Workplace transitions are constant and consistent, yet we continue to fail each other when it comes to organizing around doing it better.

Because we don’t yet see healthy and positive examples of workplace transitions, we aren’t naturally inclined to normalize consistently doing better by each other.
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Just as planes fly overhead all around the world - whether we see them or not, people are leaving jobs, roles, projects, and their titles.

We are all actively in transition, and it’s time to normalize the leaving so we can plan and orchestrate, so we can honor the natural reality of change and transition. So we can re-route our “flight paths” to navigate workplace transitions. Imagine what our workplaces can be as we normalize patterns to take better care of each other as we exit our jobs and roles.

Want to learn more about others who have navigated their own workplace transitions and the lessons they’ve learned? Check out Season One of the Leaving Well Podcast.

If you'd like to hear more of my solo take on the topic of Leaving Well and workplace transitions, listen to Season Two.

You can also watch the corresponding video on this topic (and while you're there, will you give it a like and consider subscribing? I'm trying to reach 100 subscribers as a business goal before the end of the year and you can help!).

If you're ready to do better at your organization when it comes to workplace transitions, let's talk! Hit reply or fill out the contact form on my website and I'll be in touch.