Having a long holiday or a vacation is blessing; it's even more so if we can make it 'joyful and productive'. How so? Dorie Clark argues that 'a productive vacation' is more desirable. Read her article and find out how and why.
"How to Take
a Productive Yet Refreshing Vacation"
Dorie Clark, JUNE 04, 2015




YOU AND YOUR TEAM
Vacation: Make the most of your time away.
Make time to rekindle old
connections. It’s impossible to cordon off “work” and “life.” We
experience the downside of these blurred lines every day, as coworkers
and clients assume we’re reachable 24/7 thanks to our smartphones. We might as
well leverage the upside by building real, meaningful, gratifying
relationships with our business contacts while we’re away from the office. I
just spent the last 3 ½ weeks traveling the country, giving talks at bookstores
and corporations to launch my new book. But in between, I made sure to load up
my schedule with dinners and coffees with friends — and by “friends,” I often
mean current or potential business contacts whom I enjoy spending time with. In
the past week alone, I’ve dined with a podcaster who’s had me on his
show, a former boss from 15 years ago who now runs a large nonprofit, a woman I
profiled in Stand Out, and a business owner who hosted the San Francisco launch
party for my first book. I had a blast, and reignited dormant ties,
which is one strategy for maximizing the value of your vacation.
Vacation time is meant to be refreshing,
so you can arrive back at work with renewed vigor. But that doesn’t mean
you can’t also be productive, cementing important connections,
meeting people in strategic new locations, and achieving the goals that are
most important to you.
Dorie Clark is a marketing
strategist and professional speaker who teaches at Duke University’s Fuqua
School of Business. She is the author of Reinventing You and Stand Out.
Source: https://hbr.org/2015/06/how-to-take-a-productive-yet-refreshing-vacation
Questions
1.
According to Dorie Clark, is it possible to be
productive when you are on vacation?
2.
What are some of the things we can do when we
have a vacation?
3.
What is the first thing we should do to make our
vacation ‘productive’?
4.
Why did the author (Dorie Clark) choose Paris
instead of Hawaii for her vacation?
What does
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