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Getting Organised
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.
Read MorePosted by Jacqui Hogan on 14 August 20176 Ways to Stop Wasting Time in Meetings
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’.
Read MorePosted by Kevin Senior on 1 August 2017Recognising the Right Collaboration Software: Part 2
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.
Read MorePosted by Kevin Senior on 25 July 2017Would You Recognise the Right Collaboration Tool If You Saw It?
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?
Read MorePosted by Kevin Senior on 18 July 20173 Tools for Communication that Change Teams & Business
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?
Read MorePosted by Kevin Senior on 4 July 2017Better Teams: Output, Knowledge-Sharing, Communication
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.
Read MorePosted by Kevin Senior on 27 June 2017Streamlining Your Business: Collaboration Software
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.
Read MorePosted by Kevin Senior on 20 June 2017Why The Future Of Business Is Remote
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.
Read MorePosted by Kevin Senior on 13 June 2017Communication, Collaboration, Control: An Exercise in Better Visibility
We may recognise the value of solid communication, and so have a passing understanding or acceptance of the idea that online collaboration software could become essential to how a team or collection of teams function, but what about the day-to-day value to management?
Read MorePosted by Kevin Senior on 6 June 2017How to Be a Remote Worker, Part 2
As a remote worker, you’ll have more freedom, comfort and calm than could ever be hoped for in a traditional, non-virtual office. Online collaboration software allows for fluid, ongoing lines of communication between you and the rest of the team. Nevertheless, any worker, no matter where or who they are, needs a full appreciation of what, when and how they work in order to maximise their offering.
Read MorePosted by Kevin Senior on 31 May 2017 -
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