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Resources To Take Advantage Of During COVID-19 While You Are Working From Home
● Remote work can be more productive than working in the office. Remote teams take advantage of dozens of available resources to succeed in their jobs and you can too!
● Taking advantage of resources to help scale your business – you want your business to prosper while working from home.
● Communication resources to help you stay in touch with your team no matter what.
With the virus that is vastly sweeping the nation dozens of businesses are left with only one option; to bring their employees to working remotely. This is a huge adjustment for managers, owners, and employees as they navigate the uncharted waters of remote work.
It wasn’t long ago that remote work was frowned upon. People often had the misconception that remote work meant a tee, sweats, and staying in bed all day. Although it’s not a lie that remote work can allow you to stay in pajamas all day, that doesn’t mean that remote employees aren’t productive.
Quite the contrary actually; remote workers can, if they utilize time correctly, not only get more work done within their week but also be happier at the end of their week. You would be surprised at the efficiency that your employees can tackle a task and complete it when working from home.
Although remote employees aren’t working from an office, they still have a schedule and a team that they must communicate with to get a project done. The only difference between a team that goes into the office every day and a team that works remotely is that remote teams have to depend on resources to communicate with one another.
This means that they’ve had to find, and have trial and error while experimenting, with communication resources.
Let’s take a look at some of these most well known and most commonly used resources, as well as a few that can help you to scale your business while working remotely.
Resources To Help You Communicate With Your Team
No more phone tag, no more waiting three hours for a response from your boss, and no more miscommunication. Slack is the top resource for communication. Slack is a place where employees can get instant feedback from their colleagues whether in groups or just chatting one on one.
Slack offers dozens of different ways for businesses to use their platform and stay connected. Using different channels, managers can keep track of their team and get instant responses. The business offers both desktop use and app installation so that it’s easily accessible to team members whether on mobile or desktop.
Slack also offers the feature that allows the installation of apps that can report business activity. This is useful if businesses want to automatically receive updates on email subscribers or products.
The idea of online, camera meetings isn’t new; the idea has been in use for years. However, until Zoom, no resource has been perfect, or in fact, even close to it. Most resources that businesses have used for this purpose have been, to say the least, ineffective.
Glitches, frozen video, and sound issues can be frustrating and, when businesses are trying to put together a professional video conference, it can be unprofessional and annoying to have these issues appearing.
However, Zoom has rapidly changed and updated its system to ensure that businesses don’t experience this when using their platform. Zoom has eliminated nearly all technical difficulties, ensuring that video conferences go smoothly and without an issue.
Zoom lets employees keep in touch and communicate with one another face to face over a screen. This resource is perfect for meetings where managers want their employees to touch base but they don’t have the option to meet up together in person. Leaders can share screens, a feature that allows them to show their employees important new functions within the company.
Dropbox is a widely known and used platform that lets employees share files and send them back and forth. This platform offers a variety of modern features for remote workers. Remote employees can easily sync, share, and work on documents. It allows for sharing big files that may not be so easily done over email.
Resources to Help Scale Your Business
Flocksy is a service that offers graphic design, website development, and copywriting for one flat, monthly rate. The business also offers plans to choose from if a customer needs just one of their services instead of all three.
Businesses can easily get projects done by using Flocksy and communicating via a USA based project manager.
Using Flocksy remote businesses can easily get work done for an affordable rate without requiring their whole team to work on the project. These projects can help to get your advertisements and content to look it’s best, even while working from home.
Flocksy will help scale your business from home and have you putting out excellent content for a flat, monthly rate.
Most design companies will have you waiting weeks for results and, even when you receive the finished result, you’ll still have a mile-long list of changes to wait for. Often you’ll be assigned to one specific designer and have to work with them to receive the requested result, which is not only time consuming but can even involve phone calls and personal one on one chats.
Hatchwise found a way to change that; their process is clean, simple, easy, and streamlined. You’ll start a design contest after filling out a design brief specifying what you’re looking for, and designers from all over the world will post entries to the contest. You get to choose from hundreds of different design options and once you see one that you prefer best, you can choose it to be the winning design.
The designers whose work you chose win’s the contest and you receive your design. It’s easy and simple and you get the result that you’re looking for without waiting months.
Hatchwise is available to help companies produce excellent content while doing it efficiently and simply.
With dozens of project management tools to choose from, it was tough to narrow it down to just one. However, Trello has fast working features and an efficient system that easily puts it at its well-earned number one spot.
Trello is stylish, simple and has a classy look and feel that isn’t comparable to any other. Trello is a tool that allows businesses to organize tasks and, by allowing the whole team to see each task and have input, productivity is ultimately increased for the business.
Businesses can easily use this resource as a tool not only to organize tasks but any other reminders of events that they may have coming up.
- Rosie
- May 6, 2020