Whether you are working remotely or in an office, there are always times when productivity is low. Be it because the tasks in front of you are boring or because your energy is low and you just don’t have the inspiration you need.

We all know the feeling of having too much to do, with too little time to do it. A looming deadline, where if work had been planned and executed perfectly, it would be no problem. But those of us who are prone to procrastination know that this rarely happens. Instead of spending 3 weeks finishing a task, we instead spend 3 nights (the last ones!) doing the same work.

Do you have a ‘to-do’ list? Most of us do. We have a long list of tasks we need to do. Many of us need to delegate tasks to other people too. Back in the day, your whole team would be sitting just outside your office, ready to answer questions about what tasks they were doing and how far they had progressed.

This quote from Dave Barry is several years old, but is just as relevant today as when he wrote it: ‘If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be meetings’.

In our previous piece on recognising the online collaboration software you need, we discussed the importance of its intuitiveness and the ability to customise it to suit your team to ensure total adoption throughout the team. We also looked at who might be using it and the need to be able to create and assign permissions for different types of user whether staff, partners or clients.

If your organisation already has a method that is working well, it makes sense to find a collaboration tool that will accommodate that method. Why invent the wheel if you have happy, motivated teams that are performing well?

Does your team collaborate on document creation and share dozens of files a day? Do your teams have daily face-to-face meetings? Or do team members make use of the simply-yell-down-the-hall-and-through-the-kitchen method of communication when they need to raise an issue?

As a small business with big ambitions, you’ve recognised the potential for quality and efficiency in the information age. Working with the Glasscubes platform, your business can implement cutting-edge team collaboration software to better manage projects, form teams, utilise resources, and deliver your offering. 

Employees are under increasing pressure. As margins become tighter, productivity and workload have to increase for each individual worker in order for business to move forward and remain competitive. Everyone has to handle more, do more, and achieve more, and here we look at how there are alternatives to simply just working harder – like working smarter.

It’ll never work…. words that have been uttered on so many occasions they are becoming worn out. Working remotely, away from the office, even at home – it’s a daunting prospect for a business that has always relied on a fixed location, permanent local staff, and a traditional way of getting things done.