You're a consulting professional. How can you manage your projects better with online tools?

Project Planning and Tracking. Utilize project management platforms such as Asana, Trello, or Monday.com to create project plans, set milestones, assign tasks, and track progress in real-time. Break down projects into smaller, manageable tasks with clear deadlines and dependencies to ensure smooth execution and accountability. Collaboration and Communication. Foster collaboration among team members using communication tools like Slack, Microsoft Teams, or Google Workspace (formerly G Suite). Store and organize project documents, reports, and resources in cloud-based document management platforms like Google Drive, Dropbox, or Microsoft OneDrive.

MS SharePoint is the way to go. You can create online and news pages that could be used internally or with customers to share info or relevant documents as well as MS Teams.

Always try to use in-budget tools that the company has already like MS Excel. If not, MS Project, Jira and Financial Force are great options to do it.

MS SharePoint is a wonder piece of collaborative software, MS DevOps and of course HighQ Collaborate are great onlinr collaboration tools.

As a consulting professional, leveraging online project management tools enhances efficiency and organization in project execution. Platforms like Trello, Asana, and Monday.com facilitate task delegation, timeline tracking, and collaboration among team members. Utilizing these tools allows for centralized project management, real-time communication, and streamlined workflow, ultimately leading to improved project outcomes and client satisfaction.

Online tools suck as clickup, monday.com and trello are all useful besides using Google tools like spreadsheet, drive, calendar and docs. However bear in mind that finally people have to use those tools and people will react and behave emotionally. Therefore tools, while useful are not the panacea for project management. They are hygiene. Not everyone will understand it in the same manner. You must trust your own gut and instinct and reach out personally to check with your team members before critical junctures. In short overlay online tools with an offline layer of empathy. It's the grease that'll bind everyone together, run things smoothly, eliminating friction.

The tools that you use will, to some degree, be dependent on the kind of consulting you do and the industry in which you work. Technical or industrial projects may require software like Wrike that's a powerhouse for product development but if you offer management consulting, marketing, or regulatory services, you may be better served with a program like Airtable, Monday, or Honeybook. If at all possible, choose a program that combines all three features mentioned in this article - communication, project management, and collaboration by way of a client portal. This provides a repository for materials and a paper trail (sometimes with time stamps). No more long tail email threads or version confusion!