collaboration
How to Run Effective One-on-One Meetings with Your Manager
The simple thought of a one-on-one meeting with your manager may overwhelm you. It could be anxiety over a potential performance review, excitement to hear constructive feedback and discuss career goals, or maybe you’re simply wondering what on Earth your manager wants to talk about. Whatever the context—whether it’s your first or hundredth check-in—these one-on-one […]
Stand-Up Meetings 101: Boost Productivity and Collaboration
Imagine it’s Monday morning, and your team is scattered across different locations, each member juggling tasks and deadlines. You check your email and find a barrage of updates, questions, and blockers, leaving you wondering how to piece it all together. How do you ensure everyone is aligned, aware of roadblocks, and celebrating successes? If your […]
7 Ways to Keep Distributed Teams Aligned
Distributed teams allow you to hand-pick the top talent from across the globe, each bringing their unique skills and perspectives. But what happens when a team leader you desperately need to get in contact with is in a time zone on the other side of the world? You’ll need to enact change and move away […]
6 Ways Successful Teams Use Knowledge Sharing to Fuel Growth
You’ve just sat down at your desk when you spot an urgent request from a client. Your coworker handled a similar request last month, but they’re away on vacation. You spend the next two hours digging through email threads, shared drives, and chat logs. You’re frustrated, and you’ve wasted valuable time and possibly even missed […]
4 Strategies to Improve Hybrid Work With Communication
Professionals often refer to hybrid work as the “best of both worlds,” and for good reason. Hybrid work incorporates many of the strengths of in-person and remote settings for a more productive workplace, such as flexibility around work environments while remaining collaborative via technology. A hybrid workplace is the combination of in-office work time with […]
How to Make Employee Training Videos That Boost Performance
Keeping your employees equipped with the latest knowledge and skills is crucial for maintaining a competitive edge—both for your business and your workers. LinkedIn’s 2024 State of Learning report found that companies with a strong learning culture saw a 57% improvement in employee retention, while 80% of workers feel that employee training adds a sense […]
Top 10 Team Communication Tools for 2024
Team communications tools come in handy when you want to spare yourself a meeting—especially when that meeting could have been an email. On the other hand, it’s frustrating when you want to meet face-to-face, but not everyone can be in the same place, at the same time. In both cases, you’ve got to be able […]
12 Remote Collaboration Tools for Teams in 2024
You want the best talent you can get. But, logistics can get in the way. When your company’s based in Boston but the perfect fit for your role is in Berlin, that’s a problem. Well, it is if your company doesn’t embrace remote work. Remote work gives you access to talent around the world and […]
Top 7 Remote Training Software: Your Guide to the Best Tools
A team in Chicago chimes in on a lively discussion in a real-time chatroom, brainstorming solutions with colleagues in London who are just starting their workday. Meanwhile, in Tokyo, another team member uploads a video tutorial they created to the shared workspace, instantly accessible to everyone. This isn’t just a vision—it’s the potential that your […]
Top 10 Video Conferencing Platforms of 2024
Faces frozen in wacky positions, weird audio glitches, and the dreaded “Hello, can you hear me?” If you recognized these as hallmarks of a horrible video call, you’re right. For remote and hybrid teams, these issues aren’t just minor annoyances, they’re productivity killers. After all, video is the primary way for distributed teams to communicate, […]
Guide to Managing Remote Teams: 11 Tips and Tools for Success
It’s the launch day for your new app. The website countdown ticks down. Your team members around the globe—one refreshing a faulty browser, another battling a flurry of unclear messages, a third feeling a pang of isolation—all struggle with a sense of disconnection. The dream of a smooth launch hangs in the balance. But it […]
5 Remote Onboarding Strategies to Start New Hires Off Right
It’s your first day at a new remote job. You excitedly hustle through your morning routine, then finally plop down at your desk and log into your new email account. You’re greeted by an inbox brimming with new-hire training alerts, meeting invites, and account setup tasks—and there’s no rhyme or reason to what you should […]
5 Tips to Foster Effective Communication in the Workplace
If you find coworkers don’t receive your messages as intended or that you’re not getting the information you need from others, you’re not alone. Thirty percent of employees reported increasing challenges when communicating with coworkers and clients, and 70% say they’ve wasted time trying to mend communication issues at work. Even if your teams communicate […]
Team Meetings: 6 Ways to Kick Unproductivity to the Curb
“Let’s get started,” says the team leader. “How’s everyone doing?” Random cough. “Great. So, it’s the weekly meeting. And, um, well…” Awkward silence. Ever been there? Your team meeting starts, and no one knows what to talk about. Maybe the subjects are all over the place. By the end of the meeting, you are back […]
6 Surefire Ways to Run More Effective Meetings and Save Time
Being in a meeting and not knowing what you’re there for is never a good use of your time. Especially, when there’s pressing work waiting to be done right when you get out of a very ambiguous meeting. Many meetings are unproductive and end without reaching a consensus or clear decisions. In fact, a Bloomberg […]