Learn more about optimizing productivity when working from home.

In order to obtain the desired results, I suggest you to use collaboration tools to manage the teams.

Below you will find a list of effective tools that you can use in your business.

Choose the one that suits you best!

Project management

Azendoo: Equipped with a collaboration space, a functionality for sharing tasks and adding files, this tool will also allow you to chat in real time.

Wrike: allows you to give priority to different tasks of a project, to share files, to follow the activity flow in real time, to talk to colleagues.

Wunderlist: this tool makes teamwork and personal work possible without the need for messaging. It has several features: task management, file sharing, reminders, notifications…

File sharing and storage

Google Drive: allows you to store up to 15 GB and share any type of file.

Dropbox: the free version allows you to store 2 GB, this tool then offers a paid version that allows you to store up to 500 dGB files.

ZohoDocs: allows you to store up to 5 GB of documents, importing documents from Google Drive is possible as well as synchronizing with Dropbox.

Collaborative writing. Brainstorming

Google doc: this tool is compatible with all formats, it offers the possibility to write a document simultaneously.

ZohoWriter: this tool allows you to co-write documents, it is compatible with all formats.

MindMup: This tool allows you to create mind maps that can be modified by multiple people, but these changes are not instantaneous, however maps can be shared. The tool is not safe.

Padlet: this tool allows you to create and share virtual walls, it is available on tablets and mobile devices.

Scheduling meetings

Doodle: this tool allows you to create a survey, invite collaborators, choose a program, record the results and confirm the date of a meeting.

Moreganize: this tool allows you to schedule a meeting, create a to-do list, create a survey.

Manage a team remotely

Trello: this remote management tool allows you to monitor the progress of each employee’s projects.

Asana: this application, available for both a computer and a mobile phone, allows you to work in a team through many features, such as project, work, tasks, notes and comment spaces. The information is updated in real time.

Collaborative: this project management tool is available in more than 30 languages, it is equipped with many features: file management, activity and time tracking, time reports, activities and messages, activity list, instant messaging…

Stay in touch with your team

Hipchat: this tool allows a team to stay in touch remotely, being available on mobile and laptop.

Sqwiggle: the peculiarity of this tool is that it integrates videos, which allows managers to permanently display the teleworking of their employees.

Corporate social network

Yamer: This microblogging tool allows you to create events that can be retrieved in Outlook and Google Calendar, to conduct surveys, to share photos and files, to chat with other conferences.

Bluekiwi: this platform aims to promote exchanges between employees. The tool makes it possible to create communities, identify interlocutors, conduct research.

Paid instruments

Organaizing online seminars and meetings

Cisco WebEx Event Center: This tool is used to organize online seminars and meetings. Equipped with a high resolution, the tool allows the online participation of approximately 3000 people in a meeting or a seminar. Real-time interaction with stakeholders is possible through surveys, instant discussions, targeted questions and answers… in addition, stakeholders can share their presentations, applications, videos in real time, the possibility of recording and broadcasting the meeting is planned. as the possibility to prepare before the webcast the guest list, the confirmation request, the reminder

Cisco WebEx Meetings: a tool for organizing online meetings, but its capacity is limited to 7 speakers. The tool stores upstream records that participants can download, edit and replace. Users of this tool also have instant messaging, the ability to make calls and annotate documents.

Microsoft Lync: is a platform for data exchange between users and the organization of online meetings. HD video is limited to 5 participants, the desktop package is integrated into the tool that also allows sharing notes between users.

Manage a team remotely

Beinwork: this tool allows you to manage a remote team, but also work and remote collaboration in “project mode”. Due to the different indicators, the tool allows monitoring the progress of each employee’s projects.

File sharing

Tamashare: this tool allows instant sharing of documents and applications for up to 20 employees.

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