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There are a million studies out there about the benefits of traveling the world: It makes you smarter. It humbles you. It makes you more cultured and more confident. But you can glean the benefits of travel outside of your personal life, too—as it turns out, traveling even makes you a better leader. How is that possible, you ask?
It makes you more adaptable
There is one thing you have to shed entirely before you hop on a plane to a brand-new place: routine. Travel will throw a great many new challenges your way, and with each one, you'll have to craft a solution using a different strategy than you normally would. The end result? Returning home with better problem-solving skills, the ability to think on your feet and the capability to step back and approach a problem from a totally new angle.
You learn how to engage and inspire your team
One of the most difficult concepts to grasp sometimes in the everyday world…other people are not like you. They're not motivated by the same things, they don't respond to the same incentives, and they communicate what they want and how they feel differently than you would. These differences are even more dramatic when you're halfway across the globe, totally immersed in a different culture. When you're traveling, you learn to see people without the lens of your own preconceptions.
Traveling allows you to see people, places and problems in new and innovative ways. Could there be any better reason to embark on a locum tenens adventure?