Ideas, insights, and inside looks at how modern teams collaborate, manage work, and scale smarter – with a dash of product updates and stories from the trenches
You have probably uttered the phrase “greater than the sum of its parts” so many times in your life without giving it much thought. But as cliched as it might sound, that is the exact philosophy behind every great team. Research shows that 97% of workers and employers believe that a lack of team ...
Your list of project requirements is endless. The time frame, tight. The budget, minimal (there’s a shocker). And your resources, scarce. Even with the most optimistic, go-getter attitude and mindset, you know meeting the deadline with the full list of priorities delivered is an impossible feat. Whenever ...
Just because you’re working long hours doesn’t mean you’re being productive. In fact, according to Business News Daily, research has found that overtime is the one thing that’s likely to lead to lower levels of productivity. So, what increases productivity, then? We did a bit of reading, and ...
What’s the very first thing you do at the start of your working day? Do you ease into it with some cruisy email responses, or do you jump straight into the hard tasks? The ones you’d like to ignore, but know you can’t because they’ll keep coming back to stare you down. The ones that seem to evolve ...
Your average workplace has changed a lot. And we do mean a lot, especially over the course of the last five years. Of course, a lot of it has to do with the pandemic, but also with companies seeing that remote workers can be just as productive as those who commute to work every day. According to stats ...
How many times have you found yourself in the middle of a trivial task only to realize half your day is gone, and you haven’t even started working on that big client proposal? Most people usually start their workdays by checking emails, following up on previous discussions, and catching up on updates ...
Do you believe in hacks? Maybe you’re one of those people who’ll try anything that promises to free up time in their busy schedule and let them do more with less. If that’s the case, then you’re onto something. According to an IBM report, executives believe the top two behavioral skills that ...
Are you familiar with the term “quiet quitting”? Simply put, it’s when an employee does just the bare minimum in order to keep their job. It’s a phenomenon that has been identified fairly recently and which has been gathering momentum. According to Gallup, quiet quitters make up around 50 ...
Over two million people worldwide use the Pomodoro Technique to manage their time better, feel less overwhelmed, and actually get work done. If that number of people trust it, then it must be a method worth trying out. There are dozens of time management techniques you can try, but not all will help ...
It would be an understatement to say that agile marketing is having a bit of a moment. While it was initially viewed as a novel framework, it has since become an essential part of every discerning marketer’s toolkit. How did agile marketing become all the rage? It’s simple, actually. Taking a page ...
Delegation is an essential leadership skill. Especially for growing businesses. As your client base and service offerings grow, you come face-to-face with the fact you can’t take care of everything on your own. You realize you need to start delegating and fast. If you don’t, you’ll either lose ...
How clear are you on the difference between urgent and important? And when the time comes to work out if a task is one or the other (or perhaps both), can you do it? How do you decide? These are all questions the Eisenhower decision matrix, a task prioritization technique can help solve. If we follow ...