Why Travel more as a Business professional?

Wherever you are a Manager, a Seller, a Marketing professional, in Public Relations or in Human Ressources, you are in the commerce of People.

• Where are you the most exposed to the People you need to listen to?
• Who are these future Customers?
• How much diversity do you need to develop commercial empathy?
• Do you need to travel very far to find different types of cultures?

• Do you have a branch in Barcelona?
• Will you open a business unit in Milan?
• Are you familiar with the Context & the Culture of Cologne?
• Have you began a Localization campaign in Tokyo?
• The next time you have a business dinner in Southern France wouldn’t it look amazing if you could order in French while you display your knowledge of Provencal traditions?

Here’s why you may want to consider travelling more for your business:

• Possible Advantages
  • Some jobs require you to travel
  • Flexible hours?
  • Better Pay?
• Get in touch with Future Technology
  • Smart cities
  • Deep Learning integration
  • Other Innovative practices
• Worldwide Networking
  • Preliminary preparations
  • New recruitment/partnerships
• Hone your skills
  • Preliminary preparations
  • Commercial empathy
  • Managing Professional Trips
• Learn new languages
  • Preliminary preparations
  • Partners & Business Divisions

Possible Advantages

Some jobs require you to travel

• Have you been into Accounting, Marketing or Finance for more than a decade?
• Then you may be interested into becoming a moving Consultant.
• You don’t really need to be in the industry for so long, but a senior financial advisor will clearly be more at ease than a beginner, and therefore enjoy the experience more.
• More jobs in Finance, PR, Healthcare, Design, Entertainment, Education & Programming become travelling jobs.
• This is becoming particularly true for jobs that allow teleworking, as it tends to soften the new employee’s integration in the company.

Flexible hours?

• Teleworking is the way to Flexible hours.
• Travel working, not always.
• If you’re a travelling writer/author or programmer it may be the case, since there’s little sense of emergency.
• What makes the difference is your diligence & your commitment.

• If you’re a travelling nurse or doctor on the other hand, or any other job that admits emergency situations, don’t count on flexible calendars too much.
• They may happen, as impromptu may.

• The same goes for any profession where you’re commissioned.
• If you are a travelling seller or agent, your hours are flexible in theory.
• In practice, you’ll want as many sales as possible.
• Expect online travel agencies to grow tremendously in the upcoming 5 to 10 years, competition will burst.

Better Pay?

• Do you have great people skills?
• Do people say about you that you’re a great manager?
• Do you like handling people?
• Do people like listening to your stories?
• Do you enjoy foreign culture?
• Are you at ease in Metropolis as well as in small towns?
• Could you spend your days in Museums, visiting landmarks & trying unusual restaurants?
• Can you handle a group of 5 to 10 people?

• Have you ever considered becoming an International Tour Guide?
• Here’s the opportunity for you to share your love for exploration & meet curious people.
• Communication skills are key since you may be leading medium to large groups through busy streets & other crowded places.
• Of course you may only be a guide through Villages.
• But diversity of settings & settlements size will allow you to meet more diverse people.

• You could double that with an International Tour Guide website & social media following (LinkedIn & TikTok 1st).
• And then you’re golden.

Get in touch with Future Technologies

Worldwide Networking

Preliminary preparations

• Can you ask your colleagues about a contact in the country you’re moving to?
• That’s the most convenient way to make connections.

• Are you on a conversation exchange platform?
• Learning a foreign language through conversation exchange is an easy way to ask about the country’s culture while acquire the most useful phrases.
• Prepare a small introduction : Name, Age, Origin(country & city), Profession, Hobbies, Wage/Salary/Annual Revenues.
  • In some countries like Japan it is an institutionalized practice, so be ready

• In some regions Service & Hospitality are key and declining an employee trying to act as they’ve been trained can be seen as rejection.
• If you need your bag on your back at all times allow the helpers to help you by answering questions or showing you around.
• Tip is not needed everywhere, as in most of Europe, although it can be appreciated.
• In some other places where Hospitality is part of the service, namely Eastern Asia, it could be seen as inappropriate or disrespectful.

• Asking about company travel policy, traveller safety & employee’s well-being during the travel would also prove essential.
• However, it may overlooked.

New recruitment/partnerships

• If your future partner/customer knows about unusual locations in town that only the locals know capitalize on it.
• There is some genuine love for the unique places people live in & frequent on a regular basis.
• If you plan to become an athletic recruiter or a construction manager you’ll soon be in charge of diverse team of foreign people.
  • That should be interesting

Hone your skills

Preliminary preparations

• Which skills do you want to learn?
  • Marketing & Selling
  • Management & Social Psychology
  • Accounting, Finances & Taxes
  • Programming & UI/UX design
• Why do you want to learn them?
  • Are you a manager willing to better understand her team members?
  • Therefore, you’ll want to learn the basics of everything
  • Are you financial professional interested by predictive bots?
  • Then, you may want to learn a bit of Python & Javascript
  • Do you want to up your skills in social Marketing?
  • You need a crash course in vertical design (LinledIn, TikTok, YouTube shorts)
• Why do I need to travel, I could learn these skills anywhere?
  • Yes, so why not somewhere else?
  • True, you can learn all of this from a Skillshare/LinkedIn course
  • But, what about learning them 1st hand from a future colleague/partner?
  • As everything in this post, it is another occasion to meet people that are different from the place you’re in
  • And that’s why you though about travelling in the 1st place

Commercial empathy

• Let’s say you intend to become the best Manager or the best CEO
• What do you need?
• Yes, Empathy.
• Empathy is the juice that will allow your customers & employees to speak to you freely.
• And if they speak to you freely you could leverage their best ideas more easily.

• How do you acquire Empathy?
• By getting into the culture of the other person.
• How do you do that?
• Getting some perspective & some context of people’s daily life may help a lot.
• How do you get that?
• T-R-A-V-E-L.
• That doesn’t have to be very far.
• You could just spend a week in Lisbon, a week in Marseilles, & a week in Cologne.
• You don’t even have to quit your country.
• But the further, the more diverse & foreign.
• And therefore the more valuable.

Managing Professional Trips

• Or how to become an amateur International Tour Guide.
• Learn the essential phrases in your target language.
• Learn about the city/country’s basic history & cultural differences.
• Learn about the best places in the country/city for the after-work.
• Mix & match under appreciated destinations & well-known spots for the best result.
• And wait for everyone to be impressed.

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