Teams | Collaboration | Customer Service | Project Management

We need to rethink the way we work. The global pandemic has made it strikingly clear that working longer hours does not lead to greater impact. In fact, it leads to burned out, unhappy, and unproductive employees. According to the Anatomy of Work Index, 76% of workers are struggling to disconnect from work. And, in the last year, 7 in 10 workers experienced burnout. To rethink work and life in the new normal, we sat down with Adam Grant at our recent Focus & Flow Summit.

“Remember to celebrate milestones as you prepare for the road ahead.” – Nelson Mandela Just as the original term ‘milestone’ denotes a marker indicating distance traveled, so milestones in project represent a task or activity completed so far. But they are actually far more useful and versatile than that. In this post, we define project milestones, and explore why they’re an essential part of the project management process.

Balancing all of a company’s various business needs can be difficult and often results in using a number of different solutions to get the job done. So often these days, a lot of software focuses on fulfilling one specific need, and doing it really well. While this is great in providing consumers with good quality services, it also results in complicated workflows that see users going between multiple products in order to complete a single project.

The last year and a half has really tested how well organisations in the UK—and around the world—are able to communicate goals and create clarity for their teams. Without strong goals to work towards together, teams flounder and can’t do their best work, especially considering the amount of sudden change and stress people have experienced.