There are plenty of words and phrases that will immediately put a pit in any manager's stomach. I'm overworked. I'm unhappy. I quit. There's another one that deserves a spot on the list: It's time for performance reviews. At their worst, performance reviews are daunting, nerve-wracking, dreaded obligations — for managers and employees alike. At their best, they're
To achieve your biggest goals, gain or maintain industry leadership, or attract wide brand recognition, it may be necessary to set stretch goals. These are audacious, scary, and almost impossible goals that inspire your team to go beyond their normal abilities to create novel approaches and solutions. Stretch goals are aggressively ambitious and rarely achieved. When
It’s Monday morning. You’ve got leftover tasks on your calendar from last week, an inbox full of new requests, and team members who need marching orders for the day. How do you get on top of it all and manage daily tasks in an efficient way? Enter daily task management. You’ll be cleaning up your overdue
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs can be used to plan any type of project. In fact, the Maslow Theory of Motivation can be the key to unlocking successful project results. Although all of these requirements appear to be unrelated to project management, they can be adapted to suit many areas. Self-actualization, esteem, belonging, safety, and psychological
Wrike did an online survey of 5,000+ adults in the United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany, and Australia, who work full time for an organization with 500+ employees. Discover what drives employee engagement so you can build a strategy that boosts productivity and grows your business.
Take back control of your work with Wrike’s new Inbox on Android. Let’s face it, we all get a lot of communications these days. Some we need to respond to right away, some we need to come back to later, some that aren’t important at all. For most of us, it’s difficult to keep track
When was the last time you checked your email account? A few hours ago? Were you looking at your inbox right before you started reading this article? Stats from Business Insider reveal that over 1/3 of Americans check their email continuously throughout the day. According to AOL’s 2010 survey, 47% of people claim to be
It's that time of year again in the U.S., when coworkers start playing pranks and strange behavior seems more common. Some of us are busy preparing our defenses for the spooky weekend ahead, and others are just locking their front doors and waiting for November. But regardless of how you choose to handle Halloween, workers everywhere
Solving employee burnout starts with equipping leaders with the right tools to help their employees manage their workloads with ease. You need tools to provide visibility into team workload, optimize team performance, and increase resource utilization. Here’s how Wrike Resource can help.
You have your headphones on, music playing, and all notifications muted to allow for maximum focus... and you're still not as productive as you want to be. What are you doing wrong? In our 2015 Work Management Survey, we surveyed 1,464 team leaders and members and asked them to rank their biggest productivity roadblocks. You'll find
Business velocity can make or break any business — and it's especially important for startups that are struggling to bring a product to market before anyone else beats them to it. Thus it becomes of paramount importance to clear roadblocks and set the stage for team productivity. Except how is this done exactly? At a 10,000-foot view, there really are only 3 steps.
Do you feel your productivity wane as the week goes on? Or do you start a number of tasks and struggle to finish them, jumping from one to another all day? The COVID-19 pandemic forced most knowledge workers to work from home, and many have found the benefits of remote working worthy of continuing even as
Studies report that happy workers are 31% more productive, with up to 37% higher sales and three times the creativity as the rest of your workforce (Harvard Business Review). Isn't that enough incentive to keep your people happy as they spend upwards of eight hours a day contributing to your bottom line? The infographic below shows
Some days are just harder than others. It's the end of a week, or the day after a holiday, or there was yet another office birthday. (Cake-coma, anyone?) When your team is having a hard time focusing on their work, don't just sigh and hope things will change soon. You can actively help them jump back
You've come to that point in your management career: work isn't getting done fast enough and your team's emotional well-being is dwindling. Your own stress levels are climbing as pressure from higher-ups increases. You're trying to help your team, but no matter how hard they work, nothing is getting done and they're wilting more every