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Saving Time with Planes, Trains and Automobiles

Travel time is an insidious influence on your time.

Saving time, or more specifically, using this time in a more productive way, can greatly enhance your productivity and effectiveness

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For many people the daily slog of commuting to work saps your energy and tests your patience.

For others, travel is a necessary component of doing business, building relationships with clients and suppliers through face-to-face contact.

If travel is essential to your business then there are a number of ways that you can add value to your time.

One way to increase the value of your travel time is to multi-task.

For example, a salesman friend of mine listens to tapes and audio books on persuasion and selling techniques. This is the way that he keeps up-to-date with the information in his area.

Be creative and find ways that you can combine your travel time with other activities.

If you are traveling for an extended trip, take enough paper work so that you can turn your travel time into productive time.

Alternatively, treat the travel time as something that managers don’t get much of, which is uninterrupted time to do those important things that keep getting put aside.

Rather than getting the first plane home, try to organize other activities in the location, such as spending time with the company’s local sales representative, or organize other meetings with important customers.





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