Leave Planner | Team Leave Plan Calendar Template
Leave Calculator - Team Leave Plan Calendar
Planning is a crucial phase in project management. Whether managing a large or small project, a project manager needs to provide an approximate estimation of the project timeline, which also takes into account the risk of the project dates being impacted if people go on planned/unplanned leaves. Leave Planner for Planning leaves on a month on month or annual basis, helps the project managers to plan things better and ensure that the project is not impacted.
The team leave plan Calendar is an excel based template with two tabs, with the first tab providing a monthly view of the planned leaves while the other tab provides an annual view.
Team Leave Plan Calendar Template
Monthly Leave Planner
- NH – National/Public Holiday – These holidays are declared at the start of the year by the Government and are usually applicable to all employees in an organization. These holidays are highlighted in red.
- AL – Annual Leave – Privilege Leave an employee is entitled to.
- SL – Sick Leave – Leave an employee is entitled to for medical reasons.
- ML – Maternity Leave – Usually a period of 6 months to 1 year, varying upon the organization.
- PL – Paternity Leave – 5 days leave entitlement to an employee who has become a new father.
- Other – includes leave instead of bereavement, adoption, etc.
As a first step, one needs to list down the team members' names in Column A. The next column (Column B) mentions a total of the Annual & Sick Leave entitlement that an employee is eligible for. The number of leaves an employee is entitled to be dependent on their tenure in the organization.
For an employee starting during the course of the year, leaves will be allocated on a pro-rata basis. The Annual and Sick Leaves numbers are an auto-calculated field, which gets updated, based on the calendar's entries for the month. The Balance Leaves column shows the remaining balance that an employee can plan for the year.
In the current example in the template, we are assuming that the first 8 resources are with the organization at the start of the year and will continue through till year-end, and hence have the same number of leaves allocated to them. The last two employees are shown to join the team a few months later, and hence the total annual and sick leaves are calculated on a pro-rata basis depending on their month of joining. Any additions to the team should be added to the list, and the number of the allocated leaves calculated accordingly.
The employee is expected to mark the days of planned vacation, as per the pre-defined legends. Please note that the details updated for a particular month do not get cleared on changing the month and year. Hence it is essential for the manager/employee to clear out the previous month's contents and refresh it with the current month’s leave details. To ensure all data is correctly cleared, a ‘Refresh’ button is provided on the left (below the month & Year) of the leave calendar, which can be clicked to clear out the data for a month.
Annual Leave Planner
The monthly and annual calendars are not interlinked, and the managers/teams may opt to choose any one or both of the templates for their teams. The annual view can enable resilience planning base on how the team members have planned their leaves.
