ROC Weekly Management & Mindset Segment

How to Successfully Manage Your Rehab Center While You Travel

Working while travelling sounds great, but there are many challenges you may face when you are away. Maintaining a healthy work-life balance can help you enjoy your trip while also ensuring your business is operating smoothly in your absence.

Tips to help you manage your business while you are travelling

Here is a list of step you can take to help manage your rehab center next time you travel:

Share news of your travel as soon as possible

Informing your team of your planned absence can help them prepare. They can plan their work flow, incorporate any additional tasks as needed, and ensure they have all they need while you are gone.

Delegate tasks and have trust

Before you leave on your trip, delegate important tasks to competent employees and trust that it will get done. Be sure to assign tasks to staff who are already familiar with the work to help ease the process. You can also create a list of what needs to be completed while you are away to help clarify expectations. Consider also creating a list of goals for yourself to help ensure you accomplish necessary tasks during your time away.

Consider work styles and hierarchies

Before you leave on your trip, consider the employees that need a bit more guidance in their work, and those who are leaders in your team. Ensure that the employees that need more help have someone they can contact when needed. You can also pair up these two types of employees to help with workflow.

Keep open lines of communication

Have a list of ways that your team can contact you to help ease their mind while you are gone. You can also consider implementing set communication times where you are available to chat online or over the phone. Ensure you consider any time zone changes you might encounter and the internet connectivity available. You can also set up call forwarding so that you are able to handle your voice mail and receive any important calls while you are away.

Create a schedule

It can be easy to get caught up in what is happening around you and want to explore the new location. Having a set schedule ahead of your trip can help you remain focused and productive. It can also help you balance work and leisure time so that you feel accomplished and can relax and have fun at the same time. This will help you batch your work, catch up on communications, be available for people at home, and then free your mind of work while you sightsee.

Automate where possible

Try to automate as many of your tasks as possible before your trip. This can help ensure everything is set up to function while you are away. Then, the time you do spend on work while away will be on tasks of higher importance.

Learn to say no

You know what is important to your business and what is not. When you are planning to be away for a while, ensure you and your team are spending your efforts on what is truly important to the functioning of your business. The rest can wait until your return. Conversely, when you are travelling, there are likely to be many temptations. Be sure to prioritize the essential tasks and communications while you are away so that you can make the best of your trip and support the operations of your business at the same time.

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