Ep. 64 — How to Take a Vacation Without Everything Falling Apart
In this episode, Amy kicks off the fifth annual summer series by tackling the real reasons vacations feel impossible for museum professionals. When all the knowledge lives in your head, it feels impossible to step away. Amy introduces a simple, practical fix and shows you how to create your very first standard operating procedure (SOP) in the time it takes to do the task itself.
Key Takeaways:
The real reason vacations feel impossible: Most museum professionals can't step away because nothing is set up to run without them.
The fix is simpler than you think: A standard operating procedure (SOP) is not a corporate binder. It's just a document that says, “Here's how we do this one thing.”
Start with just one task: You don't need to document everything before your trip. Pick the single task that would fall apart first if you were gone, and write down the steps the next time you do it. That's your first SOP.
