For startups it’s highly critical for entrepreneurs having multiple employees, and solopreneurs in an office of one, to use all available tools and resources to maximize productivity and have a competitive edge. Entrepreneurs need to challenge the status quo and constantly improve rate of production. To this end, lets look at five highly effective employee productivity tools for startups.
Trello
Better collaboration translate to better productivity. And Trello is a free and visual online collaboration tool that sorts projects into “lists of lists” with cards on a virtual board. The cards may be dragged and dropped between lists to know if a project is progressing.As visual tool, Trello provides entrepreneurs a view of what’s being worked on, which employees are working on what, and what progress has been made, all at once.
Trello is not only an interactive project management solution for groups but also works for individuals. Tim Maurer, an highly successful financial consultant and regular contributor on Forbes.com, said in a recent post that Trello, “has become my highly-personalized,individual task management system of choice.”
Rescue Time
Nothing reduces productivity like time waste which is highly true for entrepreneurs and solopreneurs who need to make every moment at work count. Rescue Time is a free software program installed on a computer,that assists bosses and employees increase productivity by tracking productive time. Together with monitoring activities throughout the day, Rescue Time enable users to set goals and track progress, track time spent both on and offline, restrict access to distracting, time-wasting websites, and see what apps and websites were used during the day. Using a metric called “productivity pulse”, Rescue Time measures daily time productivity on a scale of very distracting, to very productive, to produce an overall score that shows just how productive the user’s day actually was. Based on those scores, workers can make amendments to improve the productivity of their time.
Dropbox for Business
This well known file-sharing desktop and mobile app,which is a hit among consumers. And now more and more startup entrepreneurs are using Dropbox for Business as a software tool to increase productivity.With work in recent time occurring on multiple devices, the Dropbox app makes it easy and convenient for workers to sync important work documents across all platforms for quick and easy retrieval on the device of their choice, whenever and wherever they are. With more than 50% of IT business professional disclosing that they will be deploying a personal cloud for workplace purposes, it’s clear that options such as Dropbox is required for day to day business. And ability to create shared folders, and choose which team members may access those folders to work on documents, makes Dropbox for Business a good collaboration tool.
Mailbox
As illustrated by many business productivity professionals, although rummaging through email boxes may cast illusion of being productive, it is anything come by. That’s where Mailbox, a mobile email management tool, comes into play. Designed by developers who realized that today’s business professionals are always on the go, Mailbox uses colorful swipe-based features, allowing entrepreneurs on the move to view and prioritize email on their mobile phones. Mailbox is available for OSX, iPhone, iPad, and Android. It’s just been integrated with Dropbox to allow quick and easy attachment of files while composing emails.
Bitrix24.com
The setback with major software collaboration tools is that they are not all that easy for employees to make use of. That’s the reason several small businesses are using internal websites known as the social intranet. Free for startups and more established businesses with 12 employees or less, Bitrix24.com has emerged as the fastest growing social intranet for business. Featuring a combination of work tools such as CRM, project management, file sharing, activity planning and real-time streaming, Bitrix24.com has collaboration incorporated from all angles. It has advantage of being a cloud-based app, that enables employee access from anywhere and on any device.
From the founding solopreneur or entrepreneur, today’s startups should take advantage of all the tools they can to turn those young margins green. While the above list of productivity tools is by no means exhaustive,it serves as a very good start for startups.
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