9 Phrases to Jumpstart Productivity When Delegating a Task
You might have read our blog post, "10 Phrases You Can Never Say When You Delegate a Task." If not, stop what you're doing and read it. It provides insight into some commonly heard phrases in the workplace that hinder everyone's productivity. Maybe you're even saying a few yourself? In response to that article, one of
Edit Task Details Straight from the Task List
Your workdays revolve around your task list. You keep it organized, sorted, updated, and schedule your time around it. You relish the simple satisfaction of checking items off, one by one. That's why we’re making a few great updates to Wrike's task list to make it even easier to organize and manage your work. Now you can
Customer's Best Practice: Consider Task Duration As the No. 1 Factor in Planning
24 hours a day is always not enough to do everything you want and spend the time with the ones you love. Today, Susan Serra, who runs a family design business, shares a great tip on efficient time planning, so that not even 5 minutes will be wasted! Customer’s background Susan Serra runs three brands and a
Build Task Dependencies to Schedule Projects
Wrike’s users benefit from the timeline feature that allows them to plan projects and reschedule tasks with drag-and-drop support. You can drag the task bar on the chart to change the task duration, start date, or end date. Once any change is made, your team members are instantly notified about it via e-mail, RSS, or
Tackle Big Problems in Small Chunks (Work Management Roundup)
Welcome to the Friday Work Management Roundup, where we bring together the week's best reads on productivity and work efficiency. You can also opt to read these links on our accompanying Flipboard mag. This week, we have links for doing more, learning more, and simply being more awesome. Read on. Top Recommendations This Week Solve Problems by
New Dependent Task Notifications: "Tasks Waiting for Your Input"
Are you linking your project steps using our task dependencies feature? It's a great way to keep track of every small advancement on the way to reaching your milestone event. But if someone else is responsible for the next step, what is the best way to let them know you've finished? @mention them in the comments? No
How to Prioritize Your To-Dos When Everything's Important (Video)
We’ve all been there: you walk into the office, take one look at your inbox or to-do list, and immediately feel the urge to run away. You’ve got a million things on your plate and they’re all important — where do you even start? The more requests come flying in at you from all sides,
Identify One Key Task Each Day (Work Management Roundup)
It's Friday once again! Time for the weekly Work Management Roundup where we pull together our favorite reads on productivity, the workplace, and strategies to work more efficiently. So grab your drink of choice and warm up your Wrike Chrome extension to bookmark the articles you'll want to read later on the train home. Here
10 Phrases that You Can Never Say When You Delegate A Task
Here are 10 phrases that team members should never hear from you: 1. “I know you haven’t finished that section yet, but this needs to be done right now!” Good delegation is about setting priorities. While emergencies do happen, having “emergencies” every couple of days won't help productivity. It will hinder productivity. All that multi-tasking and switching
The Real ROI of Wrike
How much can Wrike save you in time, money, and productivity? To understand this fully, you’ll need to consider how much inefficiencies, process breakdowns, and poor collaboration can cost your business. In 2017, one study found that businesses lost an average of $11,000 per employee each year because of ineffective collaboration and communication. Yes, that means
Getting Full Work Context: Easy with Cross-Linking Tasks and Projects
With every new update, we strive to make Wrike an even more convenient collaboration hub that connects all your data together, so that any piece of work is at your fingertips when you need it. Today we’d like to introduce a handy improvement that helps you easily weave tasks and projects into the context of
Two More Ways to Easily Create Comments and Tasks in Wrike from Your Inbox
We’ve heard from many of you that forwarding your emails to Wrike and replying to notifications, as well as our unique Outlook and Apple Mail add-ins are extremely helpful in your day-to-day work. On our forum, you also shared some cool ideas for perfecting these features so that they suit your needs even better. As we are passionate about making you more efficient, we didn’t hesitate
Set Hours in Task Duration
Besides project discussions, another feature often asked for by many of our users--estimation of task duration in hours--is now live in Wrike project management platform. To help you build a more precise schedule, we’ve added the ability to set task duration to minutes (1). Examples of valid entries in the duration field: "2h 30 m", "5d", "3h",
Customer Tip of the Day: Organize Tasks by Person and by Project
Qualitek Solutions provides software and systems for improving quality and productivity for manufacturers in the world-wide paper converting industry. Their engineering and software development teams, run multiple projects at once, each at a different stage of completion. Learn their tip on how to organize your workspace and deal with client resource management in an easy yet
New Mass Action Options: Faster Task Handling
When editing multiple tasks at once, the Mass Action tool is a practical timesaver. It allows you to quickly change tasks: mark them completed, set them as backlogged, tag them, move them to a different folder, reassign them, reschedule them, or delete them. And now the mass-action panel has been updated with new options to save
Task Dependencies vs. Custom Workflows: When to Use Each in Wrike
Wrike is an incredibly flexible tool, offering several ways your team can set up your projects, track your progress, and reach your goals. But have you ever had too many options? Using Wrike can be like walking into an ice cream shop with 20+ flavors and wanting to try all of them. One of the most
Checklists Make Your Tasks as Easy as 1-2-3
When tasks have multiple components, it can be challenging to track what has been completed versus what is still in progress, especially when different segments must be completed by different people. To help you make these tasks more structured and easier to track, Wrike added a new, useful feature. Now you can further break down