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Using Scrum Values Can Help Your Company Collaborate Better - Here's How

When it comes to the business world, things can change in an instant. What was once successful and profitable can quickly become obsolete. To stay ahead of the competition and maintain a strong foothold in the market, businesses must be willing to adapt and evolve with the times. Scrum can be useful in this situation. Scrum values are essential for businesses looking to succeed in today’s market. When a business neglects them, they risk becoming irrelevant and losing out to the competition.

7 Attractive Phrases To Email Like A Boss

Writing emails is a form of professional communication art in itself. To be heard and pay attention to your email, you need to learn how to formulate your sentences correctly if you want to convey your message in the right way. Unlike other means of communication, email takes time, so you need to be laconic. So, consider some attractive phrases that will allow you to write emails like a boss.

10 Tools to Keep Your Workflows Aligned While Promoting Positive Team Culture

A positive team culture encourages people to express themselves freely – while still being professional, of course. Teams need to work as a unit for a company to grow. And they work best when the team culture facilitates and rewards healthy collaboration based on honesty and transparency. Given how dramatically the work culture has changed in the last few years, you need the right tools to keep going.

An Overview on Synchronous Communication and Tools To Use It Effectively

These days, communication with peers and coworkers is a top need, and many software companies are available to help businesses interact efficiently. Although there are various options available, if you know which tools are the best fit for your business, you can ensure that you are getting the most out of your money and time. Let’s dig deep into how employees in 2023 will communicate with each other online and what tools they may need for synchronous communication.

6 Easy Strategies and Tools for Effective Team Communication

I’m sure you’ve heard this before: teamwork makes the dream work. Doesn’t it have a subtle yet beautiful feel to it? As much as I like the tone of it, it’s also true. Good teamwork goes a long way for companies to achieve high levels of creativity, productivity, and engagement. But wait, what really makes teamwork come in play effectively? As I hear some drums roll in the background…it’s definitely effective team communication!

Scrum Master vs Project Manager: Definition, Key Differences and Similarities

Leading a team of individuals is no simple task — it takes patience, technical experience, and a ton of leadership skills. If you work in tech, you’ve probably heard the terms “Scrum Master” or “Project Manager” being thrown around in many of the day-to-day conversations you’re having. And if you’re new to the industry, you’ve probably asked yourself what makes the two roles so different.

10 Remote Work Tools for a Technical Project Manager

After the pandemic, remote work became mainstream. In IT, hiring global developers has become necessary for those who want access to a better talent pool. However, most of the benefits that remote work brings to the table are impossible without understanding how to enhance collaboration and dynamics between remote employees. Having the right working tools helps teams organize better and more efficiently, allowing them to coordinate time zones, manage workload, keep track of projects, and more.

4 Ways to Promote Upward Communication Across Remote Teams

Poor communication could be shrinking your paycheck and cost a single company over $60 million annually. Small companies aren’t immune to poor communication woes, either. Communication blunders cost $420,000 per year in companies with 100 employees or fewer. Big or small, poor communication costs companies money. This loss of revenue can certainly impact employee salaries and bonuses.

What is Downward Communication? Benefits, Drawbacks and Examples

Did you know that 71% of employees say they’re more productive when they feel connected to their colleagues through communication? This shows the importance of effective communication in the workplace. No doubt, the communication techniques used in a work environment affect employee performance and collaboration efforts. Top-down communication is a common form of communication in the workplace and has both positive and negative impacts on collaboration efforts and employee engagement.

Gaslighting at Work: 6 Tips to Overcome it in 2023

In the 1944 film Gaslight, Ingrid Bergman plays a woman who is manipulated by her husband to the point where she questions her own memory and even sanity. FYI, Ingrid Bergman won an Oscar and a Golden Globe for that film. This phenomenon is not limited to fiction, nor is it confined to relationships. Gaslighting can happen in workplaces as well. Someone could be casting a manipulative web around you without your knowledge. You need to act wise and fast.