Getting Closer to Your Clients Focusing on your clients helps you find ways to better serve their needs, encourage them to spend more money with you and create more referrals. But to make this happen, you must first get closer to your clients. Get closer to your current clients by understanding that mass markets [...]
Does Conflict Equal Effective Collaboration? Conflict isn’t an enemy of collaboration. It’s an important requirement for effective and productive team collaboration. When conflict is well managed, your team’s creativity will be enhanced because ideas are being more thoroughly discussed. Basically, one idea leads to another, and because the quality of each idea is being [...]
Chat With Your Team Without Losing Productivity In many workplaces, conversations between team members happen through a communication tool that is constantly running. Chat tools offer exciting possibilities for communication, but for some, using a chat tool can feel like an all-day meeting that hinders productivity. This happens when your team members don’t know how [...]
Productivity Myth or Reality When it comes to productivity, there are many habits we take for granted – things we’re told over and over to do. This includes multi-tasking and spending long hours at work. But are they a productivity myth or reality? Will being a good at multi-tasking really give you an advantage? We break [...]
Boost Task Efficiency Generally, humans are good at forming ideas but bad at remembering them. By writing everything down in a notebook or Word document, you free your brain from having to remember everything. This lowers your stress levels and frees up more brain space for important things. Here's a look at how to [...]
Manage Work Overload There are times when you look down at your to-do list and feel your heart race. You’ve realised that you don’t have time to finish everything that needs to be done. Even if you stay back at the office, there will still be unfinished tasks on that to-do list, threatening to [...]
Enhancing Team Communication Smart communicators work hard to break through the noise. They are always thinking about how they can best make their messages targeted, relevant and get it shared through the right technology. They can try personalising the way they communicate, but is this enough? Maybe your reach and engagement metrics say you [...]
The Importance of Taking a Break Not taking a break is bad for your brain and your productivity. You’ve probably learned this from an unpleasant experience. Maybe you were pushing yourself through many consecutive hours of work, and your brain began to push back. The ideas that were once flowing have now run dry, [...]
How to Make Teamwork Better The average employee can hardly last 10 minutes before getting distracted. Additionally, they also spend an average of 3 hours a day checking and replying to emails. These numbers are symptoms of a larger underlying issue in how we understand the idea of teamwork. While teams usually know what [...]
Handling Requests From Team Members We’ve all had that moment when someone comes by your desk to give you a new task that needs to be completed by tomorrow. Or maybe your designer has been working on a small project for marketing that you weren’t aware of. Even with great planning, you can’t always [...]