Teams | Collaboration | Customer Service | Project Management

June 2024

Reimagining Remote Work - How Time Management Helps Boost Efficiency for Your Distributed Teams

Time is the most critical element and when it comes to achieving goals, the value of time gets multi-folded. Now when workplaces are evolving with growing remote teams and businesses are striving to enhance employee efficiency in distributed work, managing workforce hours is important to maximize productivity in remote work.

Choosing Sales Dashboard Software: A Practical Guide

Any Sales Director worth their salt knows you need to be on top of your numbers. And if you want your sales team to be successful, you need them to be on top of their numbers too. For many, the single best way of achieving this is with a sales dashboard. A sales dashboard gives you and your team a single view of your most important metrics – so you can access them at a glance.

How architects use project management software (+ 5 top tools)

As a professional in architecture, do you ever feel like you’re spending so much time managing business operations that you don’t have enough time to, you know, architect? It’s frustrating — and frustratingly common. You’re juggling multiple clients and projects (not to mention internal team members and external stakeholders), and someone has to keep everybody focused on the right tasks at the right time.

What's new in Asana | June 2024

Welcome to the June edition of What’s new in Asana. First, specify the impact of subgoals, projects, and tasks that automatically contribute to a goal’s progress with weighted goals. Next, view capacity plans grouped by projects to manage project staffing. Finally, manage your billing cycle more effectively by temporarily pausing the licenses of inactive users in your domain. For a full list of what’s new this month, check out our Release Notes in the Asana Help Center.

Autodesk Integration for Miro: Import 3D Files and Capture View Angles

The Autodesk for Miro app allows users to import 3D files, capture different view angles as a widget, instantly capture screenshots, and more. With this integration, you can bring the complete Forge Viewer experience to your Miro board. The video also shows how you can capture these different screenshots from your 3D Autodesk files, and place those screenshots strategically within a design presentation on your Miro board. The app helps facilitate quicker collaboration between different stakeholders.

Stop Selling Implementation Services (& Do This Instead) w/ Max Traylor

Agency clients I talk to often want more strategic consulting from the agencies they hire. At the same time, many agencies feel like the services they’re delivering are often undervalued by the clients they serve. If both of these are true, then why are so many agencies caught in what Pete Caputa calls the “Tactician’s Trap” where it feels like you’re on an endless hamster wheel selling implementation services without being valued for the strategic insights you can provide to your clients.

What is project management? Benefits, process, and tools

Not every company or team has a formal project management process. Whether you work at a large organization or a fast-growing startup, formal project management may not be something your team has prioritized yet. But now, you’re finding it increasingly difficult to stay organized and collaborate with teammates. You might be wondering if you need project management—except that’s just a thing for teams with dedicated project managers, right?

How to take effective meeting notes: Templates and tips

Taking good meeting notes is an important project management skill to have. By providing your stakeholders with good meeting notes, you’re offering clarity into important conversations and key decisions being made, even if they’re unable to make the meeting. In this article, we discuss different note-taking techniques so you can create effective meeting notes. Meetings are an important part of projects—they are where decisions get made and team members connect with each other.

Why we need humans more than ever in the age of AI, featuring global employee communication expert Monique Zytnik (podcast recap)

Think humans are dispensable in the age of artificial intelligence (AI)? The opposite is true — we’ve never needed human intelligence in the workplace more to navigate organizational blind spots, communicate effectively, and lead with authenticity.