There’s no question that the internet has forever revolutionized the way we communicate. Gone are the days where we’d write letters to relatives to see how they were doing — having to wait days if not weeks to hear back. In fact, many of us don’t...
Kanban vs Scrum: Comparison, Pros, and Cons
Since the advent of technology, the business world has taken on a faster pace. Project management software, automated programs, and other gifts from the digital realm have made it possible to get a lot more done than we were once used to. However...
Top 5 Strategies for Effective Organizational Communication
Effective organizational communication is crucial for any successful business. Not only will it lead to more effective outcomes, but it will also help to boost employee engagement, collaboration and workplace satisfaction. Organizational...
Kanban Project Management: What You Need to Know About Its Efficiency
If you’ve been collaborating with coworkers remotely, you’re likely familiar with project management systems centered around Kanban boards. After all, they’re one of the most efficient ways to organize your workflow. It’s the sheer efficiency that...
How Self Organization Impacts Work Results
Being organized and having a work ethic may increase the productivity of your performance. It also helps reduce stress and tensions at work because you have everything planned out, and you deliver top quality services. But what are the most...
11 Brainstorming Tools to Improve Teamwork
Does your small business have remote workers? Or are you allowing your employees to work from home owing to the pandemic? You are not alone. In fact, 57% of small business owners are considering allowing their employees to work from home post...
Collaboration in Remote Teams: 3 Things That Make a Difference
Working from home is a comparatively new trend that started to gather momentum with the advent of digital technologies. The previous five years saw a 44% surge in remote employment, which is explained by two major factors. The first is the growing...
Why Team Collaboration is the Key to Customer Loyalty
Team collaboration serves customers holistically. So customers become loyal. Businesses that get it will enjoy loyal customers while others struggle. In one study, 86 percent of business executives said that lack of collaboration or poor...
How to Run the Perfect Virtual Meeting
Remote teams are not new. However, they have been in the minority in most industries until recently. But due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, remote working has become the norm for millions of people across the United States and all over the world...
COVID-19 Has Changed the Business Communication Game – Here’s How to Adapt
They say COVID-19 has changed the world forever and business communication is no exception. Remote work is becoming a new normal making employees set up their home offices and bring all the work communication online. Whether we are communicating...
Five Powerful Behaviors to Boost Team Performance
Your mood, your demeanor and your verbal and nonverbal behaviors exert a powerful influence on your team members and the working environment. Every moment of the day, our brain is busy scanning the environment for unpleasant things we should...
How to Easily Achieve Effective Employee Communication in Your Team
To commence this discourse regarding effective employee communication we shall, before all else, formalize a definition for the term. The above is an example of over-inflated written communication. Big words are used making the sentence...
Team Management Software Benefits for Your Business
Are you planning to enhance the productivity of your business operations? Do you want to implement specific changes in your marketing activities? Well, if your answer is yes, don’t just introduce the changes straightaway. It will undoubtedly invite...
5 Tips to Encourage Effective Teamwork While Remote
As the saying goes, teamwork makes the dream work. Building an effective and successful team takes time, and it’s even harder in the case of distributed, remote teams. How can you run effectively a team of persons without, well, meeting in person...
How to Be Productive at Home?
According to a survey by Workopolis, 90% of people believe that telecommuting contributes to more productivity. However, these are the people who have had a practice of working from home, unlike most employees today, who find themselves in an...
Activities to Improve Teamwork and Collaboration in the Workplace
The best work teams are those that are well-structured, know how to communicate and interact with each other. Motivation, participation, organization, commitment, trust, common objectives and problem solving are the seven fundamental characteristics...
How to Select the Best Live Chat Software for Your Business
Live chat software has been booming before the pandemic, and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. Allied Market Research projects its value at $997 million by the year 2023, with a compound annual growth rate of 7.5%. The software-as-a...
5 Tips to Implement Work From Home Policy in Your Company
Implementing a work-from-home policy has been a solution for numerous companies in addressing the prevalent issue of burnout. Failure to provide employees with remote working options has resulted in mass resignations for some companies unwilling to...
How to Motivate Your Team to Get Things Done Together
Motivated teams work better together. They’re happy with their work environment. They’re happy with themselves. Naturally, they’re more productive. It’s great news for everyone involved. However, motivation is fickle. It’s not easy to pump up your...
Holiday’s Hottest SaaS Deals
Christmas is coming around and for us at Chanty, that means two things. One, spending time with our family and loved ones. Two, shopping around for amazing SaaS deals. Just because Black Friday and Cyber Monday are behind us, that doesn’t mean that...
How to Improve Your Remote Team Collaboration with Tech
Technology has revolutionized the workplace, making the option of working remotely an attractive business lifestyle choice that promises both efficiency and convenience. However, as advantageous and appealing as remote teams may sound, there...
The End of Skype: What Does it Mean for Team Communication?
2019 was a milestone year for Skype for Business: it was the team communication application’s five-year anniversary. But that moment was bittersweet; that same year marked the end of Skype for Business. Microsoft made the announcement in mid...
The Top 5 Workplace Challenges and Ways to Overcome Them
Gather wildly different personalities together; throw tight deadlines, difficult clients, and passive-aggressive communication into the mix; and blend. What you have is your average workplace, complete with its own unique culture and challenges. And...
Time Management Best Practices for Remote Teams
Remote teams are slowly becoming the new norm as many employees choose to work without geographical constraints, while businesses look for new talent outside their immediate surroundings. Freelance platform Upwork has released a Future Workforce...