How Productive Teams Start Their Workday
How you start your workday sets the tone for effectively completing the day’s tasks. Employees who are engaged and united are able to powerfully collaborate together, especially once they can get beyond daily distractions.
International business speaker Michael Kerr has said, “Too many people get distracted first thing in the morning with unimportant activities such as diving right into their morass of e-mail, when there may be a whole host of more important issues that need dealing with.”
Kicking off your workday can feel chaotic – from juggling team messages, email inboxes, and project management tools. Just to begin the workday, you need to manage multiple tabs and apps to prioritize your day's tasks. It can be easy to get distracted in the mornings as you check in for the day, but we’re here to offer some solutions to help. Follow our tips so you don’t crash and burn on productivity before you have even finished your first cup of coffee.
How to start your workday to remain effective and collaborative
1. Organize your space
Whether you are working from home, in an office space, on-the-go, or somewhere in between, your workspace can affect how productive you are throughout the day. For example, if you like to take notes by hand, but your desk is cluttered and you frequently lose your notepad, you will lose your train of thought and need to re-establish your rhythm multiple times throughout the day. Wherever your workspace is, start the day organized and prepared for the tasks at hand.
2. Organize your tasks
At the beginning of your workday, take stock of the tasks that need to be completed today. Traditionally this means opening each app to review tasks, meetings, invoices, and more. For a customer support agent, they may review Asana first to see upcoming tasks and then Zendesk for tickets assigned to them that they need to respond to. An account manager may review their open Zoho CRM deals first and then upcoming invoices from QuickBooks. Clicking from app to app is easily one of the more distracting events you may encounter. Thankfully, you can now ditch this mundane tradition with My Daily Glances.
My Daily Glances is your personal dashboard that shows productivity data across all of your apps in one place, so you always know what to-dos, meetings, requests, and more to tackle next. Instead of surfing from one app tab to another, you can eliminate unnecessary clicks and replace it with just one. Clicking on the Glances widget from any page you’re on will instantly display data related specifically to you, from calendar meetings, tasks, assigned tickets and invoices, to your ranking in your team’s gamification platform.
3. Organize your apps
A recent survey found that having too many tabs leads to stress and unproductivity. In fact, of those surveyed, 28% of those that responded indicated they struggle to find tabs in their browser when the need them and 25% reported that their browsers or computers have even crashed as a result of too many tabs. Clearly, working in a multiple-tab world is no longer the most efficient way to work.
Organizing your data and your tabs can free you from the burden of seeking and uncovering customer data in the moment you need it. Whether you choose to maintain a link to common apps in your bookmarks bar or you use Glances to quickly launch frequently used apps, having a simple system in place is key to your daily success.
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