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5 Tips for Building More Effective Teams
Businesses rely on teamwork. Getting your staff work together effectively can make all the difference when it comes to getting work done on time, on budget and to standard. Teams can also be a wonderful way to bring together different specialties and make the work more interesting. Alternatively, though, they can result in disorganisation or lost time that people find frustrating. Here are ways to create teams that will work well together and efficiently get work done.
Read MorePosted by Kevin Senior on 4 April 2018What are the Most Important Skills for a Leader?
Many people go through their entire careers dreaming of becoming a leader, but without fully understanding what the role is all about. This is the type of job that is ideal for some people but not for everyone. Therefore, before setting your heart on being a leader it is worth looking at the most important skills needed and seeing whether you possess them.
Read MorePosted by Kevin Senior on 18 December 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 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 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 2017Getting the CFO On Board with Team Collaboration
Cloud computing and related technologies are becoming increasingly attractive to smaller businesses, and it’s not hard to see why. This trend is simply following in the footsteps of all of the technological advances of the last few decades – designed to, among other things, help smaller businesses compete more effectively with large corporations. And it works.
Read MorePosted by Kevin Senior on 19 April 2017Cloud Collaboration Software: Maximise Efficiency by Working Together
It’s no secret that two heads are better than one, and with collaboration software you can put the best minds in your business together. Online collaboration software helps you maximise efficiency with instant communication and a variety of streamlined processes.
Read MorePosted by Kevin Senior on 28 March 2017Three Long-term Benefits of Using Collaboration Software
Project management tools offer teams effective ways to collaborate on projects, quickly communicate and see deadlines and work assignments. Instant chat can do away with those cumbersome email chains, while a large pool of talent from all over the world can be brought in to achieve high levels of productivity now that your processes and file sharing are cloud-based.
Read MorePosted by Kevin Senior on 22 August 2016Leadership Skills to Encourage Collaboration And Inspire Loyalty, Part 2
Qualities alone do not realise goals. There are also practices that should be enacted as often as possible in order to make the most of your leadership skills.
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