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You arrive in Chicago at 8am, meetings at 9 and noon, then are headed to LA for a dinner meeting with the West Coast division. You juggle flight delays, put out fires via your “crackberry”, reconfigure the PowerPoint when the data changes just before show time, and email clients from 10pm to midnight. Ahh, the life of a road warrior.

How do you maintain peak performance of a virtual team, deal with staff issues in the office, then relax and be fully present to deliver a dynamic PowerPoint slide show to Corporate after 3  fourteen hour days?

As an Executive Coach, I have witnessed clients doing all the work to cover team limitations rather than develop the abilities of their under-managed staff, and then explode when a miscommunication happens and things get botched. They, in essence, set themselves and others up for failure.  So what could you do differently to be more productive on the road?

The truth is, it’s easy to say and hard to do on your own, but here are 4 tips to work smarter and not harder while on the road:

1. Create a great team below you.  Your measure of success is your ability to develop leaders to work in your absence. Spend the time and reap the rewards!
2. Develop the team replace you!
3. Delegate to your admin and team. Challenge them to take on more. If everyone does 5% more, you’ve got 20-30% more being done by others.
4. Find a coach to hold you accountable and create a more effective system. The $ you spend comes back to you and the company 6x over. (Fortune magazine statistic )

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