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Memos, Not Meetings: Why Asynchronous Work and Communication Are Best

Virtual Moxie

Management set up a daily, hour-long, 9a meeting for his team via their internal collaboration platform. I also think most books deserve to be blog posts, but that’s a topic for another day. It can be via email, in collaborative workspace environment like Slack, etc. Sounds good, right? So, we have two staff meetings each year.

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Simplify Daily Tasks with Technology

Office Dynamics

During the open discussion, small groups shared programs and apps they use to better coordinate their time, organize files, collaborate with their team, and even track personal projects. There are options to collaborate with team members from other locations. You can read and follow Dana’s blogs at Success Encourager.

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Why Do Administrative Teams Have So Much Drama?

Office Dynamics

When faced with any group of people with whom you have to work collaboratively, and when placed in an environment with those people for 40 hours a week or more, it’s not surprising that drama unfolds. I find that gossip usually focuses on other people’s intentions, motives, hidden agendas, or secret activities.

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Worxbee Insights: The Future of Work

Worxbee

In this new mini-series of WORXBEE blogs, we turn to Kenzie Biggins, Founder and CEO, for thought leadership highlights that reveal important shifts, innovations, and developments in workplace culture. On today’s agenda: the human element of the future of work. It can pay off in more effective collaboration.

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The Stakeholder Collaboration Game

BioTeams

One of the challenges for teams is that the achievement of some of their goals are not fully under their own control - they need to be achieved in partnership with, or even in spite of, external parties (stakeholders) who are working to their own agendas and priorities. Click To play The Stakeholder Collaboration Game.

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A business case outline for an internal PA network

Practically Perfect PA

The overall concept is to share best practice and information and to create a unified sense of collaboration between all Assistants. Dispel the ‘Ivory Tower’ myth and work much more closely with other PAs and try to avoid working in silos and have a more collaborative outlook. Have a launch event to promote the PA network.

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How We Use Slack

Productivityist

With that in mind, I would like to share with you how we use this application to collaborate in an effective, meaningful way. For example, Productivityist Blog Editor Jim Woods and I almost exclusively use private messaging when discussing posts that are being worked on. Slack has been a game changer for us. Training Documentation.

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