Efficiency is one of the ingredients of success in any workplace. You want to ensure that your team is always engaged and focusing on the right things. However, there can be so much to be done, and you may not know how to ensure you are efficient.
Luckily, the modern workplace has various tools to ensure that you are efficient in whatever you do. This article will explore tools that you can use to communicate, check your spelling mistakes in every message you send, manage your work tabs and help you schedule meetings. Let us dig in.
Slack: Communication
We can’t stress enough how good information flow should exist in a typical organisation. If you are a team lead, you need to keep your members on their toes by communicating the company’s vision and goals. Selecting a formal communication tool will ensure that your members never miss a message.
Slack has proven to be one of the best communication tools for the modern workplace. The first feature that makes Slack great is the channels. You can have public channels where you share all communication concerning the organisation. You can also create private channels to communicate with specific members.
Slack also integrates with various third-party apps like Trello and Google Drive, ensuring that you can work with your favourite apps within Slack. Holding quick meetings and sending attachments is also a breeze while working with Slack. You can record audio or video clips to send to individuals or channels with a few clicks.
Workona: Manage Your Tabs
How many tabs do you open on your browser on a normal working day? You could have an email tab, a tab for your intranet, several tabs for researching a project you are working on, and a tab for your favourite communication tool.
It can get overwhelming, especially if you have several projects to work on. An efficiency tool like Workona can help you out as you plan your projects and quickly switch spaces while focusing on one thing at a time.
Mixing work with entertainment is a common thing these days when so many of us work from home. Most of us listen to music, chat with friends and play games in the same browser window as the one we use for business.
With Workona, you can easily segment your tabs so that you can open all your favourite movies at once or get ready to play Big Bass Splash at Casino Days and other exciting games in another set of tabs. Once you are done with your entertainment break, you can open up all your work-related activities with one click and get back to work.
Grammarly: Check Your Spelling Mistakes
Have you ever sent a message and later realized it had a typo, or you missed an important keyword after you sent it? It happens all the time if you don’t have a writing assistant to iron out your messages. Grammarly can help you avoid such costly mistakes by checking for spelling mistakes as you compose your messages.
Add the Grammarly extension to your browser to ensure that it irons out all your messages. For instance, the writing assistant will provide suggestions as you compose emails in Gmail and work on projects on Google Docs. Always double-check your messages, as a writing assistant is only as good as the person who uses it.
Calendly: Schedule Meetings
Calendly is software that schedules meetings and books appointments. You don’t have to engage in back-and-forth emails trying to find an appropriate time for a meeting. Calendly will show all the available slots on your calendar and allow team members, clients or potential clients to book a meeting with you.
You can customise availability to ensure you show the times you are available for meetings. Calendly integrates with popular calendar apps like Google Calendar, iCloud, Office 365 and Outlook. This tool also detects time zones automatically, making it easy to schedule meetings for people in different time zones.
You have to make deliberate efforts if you want to be efficient. The tools above are some you can use in combination with artificial intelligence to ensure you are always on your toes. Some of these tools, like Grammarly and Slack, have free plans that give you the basic features.