Working at a digital agency, you know all too well how quickly client work and projects pile up. The thing is, only between a quarter and a third of professionals use project planning or collaboration software. That's a shocking stat since, without proper tools to keep everyone in the loop, team productivity suffers - and so do profits.
To help make sure you’re increasing the power of your team and the potential for profit, follow these three simple steps:
Understanding how busy your team is will help you understand how much more work you should (or shouldn’t) take on. What’s important though, is understanding how busy they are right now as well as how busy they are going to be with upcoming client work - using a real-time forecasting tool. That way, you can be proactive instead of reactive with how to tackle projects and make sure everyone is spending their time wisely.
So your team just landed a big project with a new client - now what? You know you’ve got to start breaking down the project into smaller parts and delegating tasks, but it’s easier said than done. Being able to see your entire team through filter options like divisions, groups, and skills in one integrated platform like Accelo will help you quickly swap people in and out based on their abilities and availabilities.
From the same project dashboard, you can even set up automatic triggers to fire whenever it looks like your projects are going off track. That way, when a team members absence delays your deadline, you'll be notified to do something about it before it hurts your bottom line.
When your team is collaborating, instead of operating in silos, everyone accomplishes more (in less time). In order to optimize your team’s productivity, you should facilitate collaboration between people so that they can jump on tasks that require different skill sets together. If you had a Team Inbox for shared tasks, discussions, and files you’d be able to easily organize teams and projects without jumping between multiple tabs! That way, you'll spend less time keeping things together and more time doing the revenue generating work you love!
Once you optimize your team’s productivity, you ’ll start to accomplish more in less time, delight your clients like never before, and increase your profits... So what are you waiting for? If you’re ready to see the benefits in motion, click here to start your free trial of Accelo today and get back to doing the work you love.
