Travel and the Future of Work ✈️ 🌎
Seeing the world has the power to raise our consciousness
Travel is making a comeback. After two years of lockdowns and restrictions, we’re all eager to start exploring the world again. At the same time, more people are changing jobs. Many people had time to think about what they really want in a career, and decided to look for something more fulfilling or more in alignment with new life goals. For some, incorporating travel and experiences into their life and work is now a bigger priority.
What if conscious leaders started making that possible for their teams?
As I’ve written about in previous newsletters, most people don’t want to wait until retirement to experience the joys we typically associate with retirement: time to reflect, travel and cultivate hobbies. Travel in particular has the power to transform how we think about ourselves, our work and our world. That’s why incorporating travel into your workplace is essential.
The late author, chef and travel guru Anthony Bourdain shared this insight about the impact of travel:
“Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind.”
It’s true, travel has the ability to raise your consciousness. It helps you see the world from different perspectives. The more we engage with different cultures and different environments, the more we grow in empathy, understanding, and creativity.
Authority Magazine recently posted an interview with Sahara Rose De Vore, Wellness Travel Coach and Founder of The Travel Coach Network, about why it’s so important for leaders to incorporate travel into their employees’ experience:
Travel has proven to spark creativity and innovative ideas by entrepreneurs, writers, and more. With the growing amount of people working from incredible places around the world, there’s no doubt that people will have a fresh, new, and open mindset to get creative and come up with beautiful work.
Sahara predicts travel will be a key element in every corporate wellness program because, “Our human needs crave exploration, discovery, human connection, and being in nature to help us maintain a happier and healthier wellbeing.”
In fact, companies like Salesforce are leasing, building, or buying wellness retreat centers where employees can go to focus on their professional development, team connection, and personal rejuvenation. Salesforce wisely recognizes that if it wants to build a corporate culture that prioritizes employee wellbeing and collaboration, it should invest in things like a corporate-culture epicenter.
No matter the size of your company, as a conscious leader you can also incorporate travel into your team’s growth. Travel has the power to elevate the overall consciousness of your team and transform each member. It’s a laudable goal, with the potential to revolutionize how we structure work while increasing the world’s consciousness one person (and trip) at a time.
"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime." – Mark Twain
Work happy. Live happy. BE happy.
Meredith
The way we work and build teams is rapidly changing. Leaders often feel unprepared to navigate the transition. As a conscious leadership coach, consultant and communicator, Meredith helps leaders and their teams create new ways of working and relating so they can prepare for the future by consciously co-creating it.
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