Leadership Lessons We Can Pull From Road Trips

It’s road trip season and we are all itching to travel to destinations we have been thinking about heading to for weeks or months! When enduring on a road trip whether long or short, it takes planning, effective execution, and adaptation to any unexpected outcomes. What you may not realize is that these simple actions are major lessons in leadership that we can incorporate into our daily work and personal lives!

CarRentals asked 26 experts in the travel and professional business industries the lessons they have pulled from adventuring on road trips, and it’s quite interesting. James Cave, a travel blogger from The Portugalist, explains to us, “travel rarely goes according to plan, and a big part of the art of travel is learning to keep a level head when those plans fall apart, work out what your options are, and decide what the best course of action is.” One of the major leadership skills a person can learn is adapting to unexpected outcomes, because they happen seemingly at the worst times! As James said, it is up to you to decide how to react to the situation at hand. Apply this lesson in your work and daily life to see your leadership skills improve.

Check out the rest of the leadership lessons in detail here or see the overview below. You most likely have completed at least one if not all these leadership skills on your last road trip. Now it’s time to put those lessons to work even after the road trip is over.

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