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What is a Toxic Work Environment and How to Deal With It?

We’ve all had dreadful mornings, difficult weekdays, and even frustrating months. You can usually get through a horrible morning, or a difficult week, and acquire vital insights from a poor quarter but it’s not easy to get through a toxic work environment. It’s even difficult to accept that you may work in a toxic environment, and possibly even more difficult to perceive it. However, the indications are relatively common. They are, unfortunately, more common than you might assume.

6 Examples of Communication Breakdown in the Workplace

Do you remember when we were at school and had group projects? The idea was to work as a team and share ideas. There was just this one itsy-bitsy thing: not everyone was heard or taken into consideration. It was really hard to communicate your opinion unless you were the loud one on the team. Fun, huh? 😀 The same holds today when we are adults working on a bit more serious projects. Effective communication can go a long way when working in a company.

How to keep teams aligned from strategy to execution

It’s a new year and the time when teams look to the months ahead with unblinking optimism. Maybe you’ve already planned a strategy to delight your core customer and focus on product innovation. Or perhaps you’re still working toward alignment on high-level goals. No matter which stage you’re in — goal-setting, planning, or execution — it’s all hard work.

How to automate repetitive tasks in 5 steps

Your team is in a relentless, repetitive cycle: manually updating project statuses, sorting through work requests, and dealing with endless email threads—tasks that demand attention but add little to your organization’s strategic goals. This scenario is all too common in today’s enterprises, where manual tasks eat into valuable resources and sideline core objectives. That’s where automation comes in.

6 Types and Features of Technical Communication

Interpersonal communication is an essential aspect of human interaction, serving various purposes in our daily lives. However, there are different types of communication, each of which is suitable for a particular setting. One of the most common kinds of communication that occurs in a business is technical communication. Technical communication is specialized, targeting audiences in specific fields like science and engineering with detailed and complex information.

What is Asana?

Asana empowers organizations to work smarter. It's the only enterprise work management platform that connects company-wide goals, strategic initiatives, and the execution of work on a single platform. With Asana, individual contributors, managers, and executives at the world’s leading companies such as Amazon, Accenture, Roche, and T-Mobile to drive better business outcomes.

Alignment at scale: Getting teams on the same page | Atlassian Presents: Unleash | Atlassian

As a company grows, it becomes more difficult to ensure every product maintains quality and performance. In this session, you will learn how to develop and align strategy across multiple teams and build guardrails into the product to deliver a consistent customer experience.

Unleashing the right dev culture | Atlassian Presents: Unleash | Atlassian

Innovation is a team sport, and culture can make or break your success. Learn why developer experience matters, how to boost productivity with AI, and which metrics actually make a difference. You’ll also get a first look at new features in Jira Software, Compass, and Jira Align that help you build a world-class engineering organization.

Productivity tracking gone wrong: When tracking productivity backfires | Atlassian Presents: Unleash

Increasing developer productivity is a worthy goal. Unfortunately, many teams focus on the wrong metrics, like story points or issues completed. In this session, we’ll discuss common anti-patterns and how to improve tools and practices to achieve the right goals.