Teams | Collaboration | Customer Service | Project Management

January 2024

5 Ways to Tackle Digital Transformation With ITSM

IT Service Management (ITSM) is a fundamental piece in your digital transformation puzzle. In short, it provides a structured approach to managing digital services, ensuring they align with your organization’s digital transformation goals. When embarking on such a journey, you will be leveraging different technologies to improve and optimize business processes, enhance customer experiences, and drive overall organizational efficiency.

How to Find the Most Productive Hours for Your Workforce

Expecting your workforce to stay productive throughout the workday is not logical, considering the nature of the human brain to be distracted now and then. An effective practice to help employees find their peak productivity hours is to make them aware of their time log and assess timesheet management for more efficiency. The popular Pomodoro technique can be a viable option to support your teams’ work and improve productivity.

Buddy Punch Wraps Up 2023 With Multiple Recognitions

Buddy Punch has received hundreds of accolades and acknowledgements over the years, and we take great pride in earning recognition as we improve our software & service. Today, we’re happy to highlight how we completed 2023 with huge success and accolades from the Gartner Digital Markets brands – Capterra, Software Advice, and GetApp. Our products also got recognized in various flagship reports under multiple software categories in 2023!

11 types of consulting and the unique challenges they face

Consulting has become a huge part of daily operations for businesses and governments worldwide, and for good reason: It’s a great way to seek expert advice and outside perspectives to achieve goals, reduce costs, and improve performance. The numbers back up this rapid growth. According to Global Data, the global consulting industry (valued at a whopping$347 billion in 2022) is expected to hit $449 billion by 2027!

Managing Employee Attendance | Importance, Challenges, & Benefits

Effective attendance management allows employers to optimize resources by aligning workforce availability with operational demands. By having real-time insights into employee attendance records and patterns, businesses can strategically schedule shifts, allocate tasks, and ensure staffing levels align with workload requirements. The proactive approach minimizes understaffing or overstaffing, contributing to overall cost-effectiveness.

What To Include on an Employment Application

An employment application serves as the first point of contact between a potential employee and an employer. It is a crucial document that provides essential information about a candidate’s qualifications, work experience, and personal details. In this comprehensive guide, we will delve into the significance of an employment application, the fundamental components it should include, and a detailed breakdown of each section.

What's New: What we launched in January 2024

Happy new year from everyone at Miro. You may have seen our special end-of-year look back at everything we released in 2023. This time we’re sharing a variety of game-changing updates to help revolutionize your async collaboration experience. Talktrack recordings on the go from your phone. A new Brand Center to help you standardize your presentations with polished visuals. Several updates to the Miro + Azure DevOps integration including two-way syncing with API polling.

What is Business Management and What Tools Can Be Used?

Do you ever wonder how top-performing organizations stay ahead of the competition? Routine activities are a crucial element of running a business. These may involve obtaining approvals, training new employees, and drafting procedures. Doing such tasks occasionally may be relatively easy, but doing them regularly demands a lot of time. For this reason, excellent business process management (BPM) is pivotal.

Top 10 Time Tracking Hacks for Successful Business

You know how it feels when your team lags in completing a project on time, and eventually such delay in work delivery leads to losing a client. So, let’s wonder what goes wrong in the whole process. Of course, it’s not rocket science to figure out that lack of timely delivery of work leads to such problems. Therefore, to avoid such problems, learning of time tracking hacks is important.

7 tips and best practices to increase employee engagement

Global employee engagement figures reached a record high in 2022, and this upward trend is expected to continue gradually over the next few years. According to Gallup, this result means that “more workers found their work meaningful and felt connected to their team, manager and employer.” That only accounts, however, for 23% of the employees surveyed.

Burnout: 20 signs, causes, and how to prevent it

Burnout happens when the stress or pressure from work reaches a tipping point—it either becomes too much or goes on for too long. While burnout is surprisingly common (71% of knowledge workers experienced burnout at least once in 2020), you’re empowered as a manager to prevent and reverse it within your team. Read on to learn about the signs of burnout, what causes it, and most importantly—how to prevent it. As a team lead, the last thing you want is for a team member to feel burnt out.