Is Your Team Delivering Projects On Time & With The Right Tools?

Did you know that companies that practice strong project management waste 28x less monetary resources compared to other organizations?

Effectively managing project time and resources is the key to delivering projects on time and within budget, which can significantly improve your company's performance and profitability as a whole.

In fact, organizations that prioritize project time management can experience up to a 30% increase in project success rates, helping them stay competitive and deliver quality results while still meeting deadlines.

?By mastering project and time management, you can:

• Increase efficiency and streamline operational processes.
• Minimize cost overruns and delays.
• Improve team collaboration and productivity.

To achieve this, it's essential to use project management tools that integrate seamlessly with your communication and collaboration platforms.

Leverage Powerful Tools for Effective Project and Time Management!

Choosing the right project management tools can make a world of difference in achieving your time management goals. Here are a few features to look for in project management software:

• Task Automation: Automating repetitive tasks frees up time for more critical work and saves you the trouble of following up manually.
• Deadline Management: To effectively make use of any project management tool, you'll need software that provides reminders and milestone tracking to ensure projects stay on schedule and help avoid last-minute rushes.
• Real-Time Collaboration: Communication tools and document sharing streamline teamwork, ensuring everyone is on the same page and working as efficiently as possible. Just like how you would be inside Teams, utilizing Teamflect!
• Reporting and Analytics: Access to project insights and performance metrics helps you make data-driven decisions and improve future project outcomes, helping your organization learn from each project.
• A Robust Feedback Feature: Having a built-in feedback feature will help create an insightful cycle that will keep your team learning and growing. It's not only the process of our projects and our deliverables, but also how well we improve for next time.

Schedule a demo with Teamflect today to start using the top choice for organizations managing their projects through Microsoft Teams and Outlook!

What Else Can Help Your Teams Deliver? An Outward Mindset!

Culture eats performance for breakfast! The most important component in building a positive and productive culture has to be mindset. Specifically, an outward mindset.

In this episode of The Team Check-in, we had the pleasure of welcoming Mitch Warner to the show! Mitch is a managing partner at The Arbinger Institute, and they are fresh off the release of the 4th edition of their classic "Leadership and Self-Deception".

In their conversation with Emre, Mitch shared insights into the unintentional narratives we create to deceive ourselves at work as well as what it means to have an outward mindset.

An "Outward Mindset", as Mitch explains, is centered on shifting one's focus from themselves to how their work impacts those around them. It is the simple question of "How can I make someone else's life easier?". Whether that someone else is a customer, coworker, direct report, an external party you're working with, or your supervisor, it's the consideration of how your work impacts them.

This ties wonderfully to a subject very near and dear to our hearts: Performance Appraisals. Mitch argues that traditional performance reviews can foster an inward mindset, measuring individual accomplishments, as opposed to evaluating the actual impact an employee has on coworkers, customers, and the workplace.

What are our key takeaways from this episode:?

• An inward mindset can lead to a culture of "Toxic High-Performers". We all know the example: "So-and-so is great at their job but they make life harder for everyone else!". There might be something wrong with our definition of being great!?
• Curiosity is a great asset that helps leaders not only overcome self-deception but also foster trust and positive connections with their direct reports.?
• As a leader, if people aren't giving you feedback, it's not because you are perfect! It's because they don't feel safe!
• Changing the way we approach performance and embracing an outward mindset in order to conduct reviews that measure actual impact, can truly do wonders for your company culture.

This was a wonderful and insightful conversation from all of us over at Teamflect, we certainly learned a lot from it! We hope you enjoy the episode!