
David draws on 20 years of small-business experience to help entrepreneurs escape the office, reduce stress, and improve life and business through practical tools, techniques, and tips.
Plan to unplug by designing an out-of-office strategy that matches your work style, assigns monitors for messages, and leverages technology for call forwarding and detailed outgoing messages.
Plan your return with an early post-vacation meeting for key projects within a week. Allocate a buffer day, use written summaries, and triage with a simple priority scale.
Identify bottlenecks by stepping away from the office to reveal choke points, then reallocate duties and staffing based on data to improve how your office works.
Learn to make vacations lifelong by building a business that works for you. Start small, gradually expand the time you're away, and choose a business that fits your desired hours.
Vacations and entrepreneurs may not mix, but getting out of the office can be one of the best things for your business. That said, days out of the office won't help if you don't have a plan for the office for that time. This brief course pulls together tips and techniques for the small business owner and entrepreneur who needs to take time out of the office, but is afraid of what will happen when he or she does. The "vacation" of this course is not necessarily time on the beach, in fact, these approaches will work with any plan to focus on specific projects, not just one where there is sand between your toes.