Digital resources to increase productivity

Asana

 

Asana is a web and mobile application that helps charity digital leaders to streamline and manage workflows and offers increased visibility for remote workers. It is a useful resource for keeping teams aligned and projects on schedule.

 

Teams can create projects, assign work to teammates, specify deadlines, and communicate about tasks directly in Asana. It also includes reporting tools, file attachments, calendars, and more.

 

Asana’s seamless integration with Microsoft Teams makes it an easy-to-use option for organisations already using that platform for communication and collaboration.

 

 

Monday

 

Organising remote teams and ensuring that everyone knows what they – and everyone else – are meant to be doing is hard, which is where Monday can help.

 

The remote team management software makes it simple for digital leadership to create rosters, keep tabs on what everyone is working on, and provide a simple way for staff to communicate with each other to ensure effective service delivery. Monday lets staff organise meetings, and thanks to clever integration with Zoom it provides an easy way for people to watch recordings of meetings that they may have missed.

 

Monday also includes space for staff to provide information about themselves and their interests so that team members can get to know each other and bond without actually meeting. There are also message boards where employees can discuss their own remote working tips to help everyone work more productively.

 

Learn more about Monday.

 

 

Trello

 

Managing a charity project using a team of remote workers can be very challenging. But charity leaders can use Trello to easily organise almost any kind of project – perhaps a website redesign or a new fundraising campaign – with staff working from home. It has been designed to be fun and simple to use – which is important to ensure employee engagement - and is based on the idea of a project board filled with cards for individual tasks.

 

Staff can then be invited to work on the online project board, adding comments to cards, uploading files to cloud services like Google Drive, OneDrive and Box (see below), creating checklists, adding labels and due dates, and generally collaborating remotely to get the project completed.

 

Learn more about Trello.

 

 

Miro

 

Miro works as an online whiteboard platform that lets teams of remote workers come together to collaborate for the delivery of all sorts of products and services. It offers pre-built templates that can be used for brainstorming, research and design, planning, or almost any other type of project, or charity leaders can customise their own templates for specific charity initiatives.

 

Using Miro, a team leader can invite remote team members to a whiteboard to work together, and Miro includes its own built-in video-conferencing capabilities so staff can meet online and discuss a project while sharing documents, spreadsheets and other data.

 

Learn more about Miro.

 

 

Box

 

For charity staff who are used to sharing files and documents on the charity network, working from home can call for a significant change in work practices.

 

The obvious solution is to store and share documents in a secure cloud storage space, and this is exactly what Box provides. Thanks to integrations with many popular applications from the likes of Microsoft, Google, Adobe and Slack, charity staff can easily work with and share files with colleagues using these applications via Box.

 

Learn more about Box.

 

 

Docusign

 

Docusign is a web-based service that allows users to send documents for electronic signature. DocuSign sends links to signers, who can then add signatures from almot any Internet-enabled device.

 

Users can upload Word, PDF, and other types of documents, either from your computer or from file-sharing sites like Box, Dropbox, Google Drive, and OneDrive.

 

Charities can use the service for grant applications, membership renewels, corporate sponsorship contracts, and much more. It can also be used for the purposes of human resources, volunteer management, procurement, and finance.