Try this
- Name the steps you need to finish work and become available, including any practical reset.
- Tell the other person the approximate shape of the transition. Avoid promising an exact minute if work does not reliably end that way.
A worked example
“I’ll close the laptop, change clothes, then come say hello.”
An invented example to adapt, not a real exchange or a script you have to follow.
Before you leave it here
Make the transition an estimate, not a countdown the other person has to monitor.