Teams | Collaboration | Customer Service | Project Management

With two new powerful AI features and several enhanced reporting capabilities, our August roundup is closing out the summer with a bang.

We spoke with seasoned operators—Meredith Fennessy Witts, Rachel Pereyra, Ashley Madden, Kristen Kelly, and Sarah Still—to learn how they systemize businesses by improving processes. Their advice is clear: Start small, focus on one high-impact workflow, and build momentum with improvements your team will actually use. Here’s the step-by-step playbook. With expert-backed tactics you can put into practice today.

You crushed the deadline. The client loved the output. Then came the invoice, bringing along the uncomfortable silence. “Why does this cost so much?” “What exactly took 100 hours?” “Why is the profit margin so less than expected?” We call it “the revenue leak zone”. Let’s break down why & where your profits disappear – and how Workstatus fixes it. But how do these improve project profitability for agencies?

Retail management involves supervising a retail business's day-to-day operations. This includes making sure everything runs smoothly, from managing inventory to improving the customer experience. To do this, store managers must have smart business growth strategies and a keen understanding of how to scale a business effectively. These key retail industry skills allow businesses to meet customer demand and maintain their competitive edge.

Traditional resource planning assumes your projects, priorities, and team availability will stay the same. It works great when everything goes according to plan. But how often does that actually happen? One changed deadline, one team member out sick, or one client emergency, and your carefully crafted schedules start to collapse. Enter Agile resource planning, where you work in flexible cycles and adapt to real-time changes. Here’s how to do it.

Critical thinking is, well, critical. By developing critical thinking skills, you improve your ability to analyze information and come to the best decision possible. In this article, we cover the basics of critical thinking, as well as the seven steps you can use to implement the full critical thinking process. Critical thinking comes from asking the right questions to come to the best conclusion possible.

Simply put, milestone trend analysis, or MTA in short, is one of the standard methods for tracking progress in project planning. The charts you create in this technique help your project managers assess whether the project is going downhill or uphill. Plus, you also get valuable insights into scheduling or scope for future ventures. However, what’s the purpose of milestone analysis in project management? We will answer this and other questions in the blog post for today.