Maintaining Your Productivity While On the Go

As PR pros, many of us may chuckle when students or mentees visit our offices and ask, “What’s a typical day look like for you?” With a fast-moving landscape of client work, news, social media and more, there really isn’t a “normal” day. That said, when expected interruptions such as offsite meetings and interviews morph into increased travel or extended projects, they might begin to have a long-term effect on your work.

I work in a place-focused business — my clients are cities, states and countries around the globe. Naturally, travel is a large component of the work. Whether or not your clients are widespread, you may find yourself accruing frequent flier miles for business trips to industry trade shows, for marketing missions or desk-side meetings with media.

Traveling early in my career has afforded me the opportunity to figure out what works and what doesn’t when replying to emails…