Like any manager, you’ll know that creating a remote team workflow can go a long way in determining the effectiveness of your team and the projects they take on. If a remote team workflow is too lax and vaguely defined, projects will fall behind schedule, and success will be hard to measure. If it’s too strict and rigid, it can make workers inflexible and create rifts between teams and their managers.

Working with different tools and applications can help us optimize each process separately. As part of our tech stack, we’re used to having a bunch of specific apps that perfectly solve one need, but if they’re in no way connected, our work becomes less and less efficient. Luckily, Zapier integrations are here to make our lives easier. Native integrations are great, but software developers can only do so many.

The struggle of creating high-quality content is real. Leading content needs merging various ideas from many brains on content creation, evaluation, and delivery. Even if you are a content trooper, you need a clear approach to connect with other team members, document their activities, and offer a home for all the information they generate. This is where content collaboration, or the concept of handling all aspects of content creation and diffusion in one place, is helpful.

There are many benefits to running a remote company, on one side, you have access to a larger talent pool, you can save on office costs, and employees are happier and more productive when they work from home. But remote companies also come with their own set of challenges. The biggest challenge is making sure that the remote team is managed effectively. So, what makes a good remote boss? And how can you lead a remote team effectively?

The great work from home experiment is over in the eyes of many company executives, leading to aggressive tactics to lure employees back to the office. This guide shows why they’re not working, and what you should do instead.

Remote work is an opportunity.

Whether we like it or not, a recession is brewing. You may wish you could bury your head in the sand and wait for it to pass, but the best thing you can do as an agency owner is to take deliberate action and create a plan to protect your business now. This way even if you can’t completely shelter your agency from the impact of a recession, you can stay profitable and avoid a total wipe-out.

Executive assistants are an indispensable part of every organization. They make the workload of executives bearable by taking charge of ad hoc tasks and responsibilities. Such tasks include scheduling meetings and coordinating with other executives and teams in and out of the organization. This helps the executives focus on more pressing matters in running the company. However, no matter how overwhelming the duties are, there are always ways to overcome these roadblocks.

For the companies that use it, Slack is the business equivalent of mission control. The collaboration hub that connects everyone’s work – wherever they are. Much more than a messaging platform, the secret to Slack’s success is how easily it integrates with the tools businesses use every day. From popular collaboration tools like Google Docs, to automated alerts and notifications for thousands of niche and specialist products.

We all can relate to the days at the office when time begins to slow down, and it feels like the day is becoming never-ending. Well, we all have been there. A lot of times, the workdays can feel stagnant. As if the entire course of time slows down and the air around you simply becomes confining. We know that you either keep looking at the clock or dreading this shift’s end. But wait, there actually is a way around it!