Name one productivity tool that works well for remote working teams and why?
To help you identify the best productivity tools for remote working, we asked CEOs and business leaders this question for their best recommendations. From Fellow to Google Docs to Notion, there are several productivity tools that are recommended as the best for remote working teams.
Here are 12 best productivity tools for remote working:
Fellow
Asana
Hypercontext
Basecamp
Loom
Google Docs
Trello
Accelo
3veta.com
Slack
Toggl
Notion
Fellow
Fellow is ideal for cooperation on meeting agendas, tracking actions to stay organized, and recording meeting notes. Fellow allows you to start the project kickoff meeting or weekly team meeting with the ready-to-use templates. There is a possibility to connect meeting agendas with Asana, Jira, and Zapier as well as Zoom, Slack, and Google Meet.
Tatsiana Kerimova, Orangesoft
Asana
Asana works well for digital marketing remote teams. Content managers can assign and view projects seamlessly using easy-to-navigate tabs. They can attach Word Doc files for client orders and instructions. Writers and editors get to see and mark their individual tasks as complete when done. All team members can communicate using the built-in messaging and e-mail-like feature.
For almost a decade of content marketing experience, I came across a lot of clients and marketing agencies that prefer using this productivity tool. I like its simple layout and straightforward project management workflow, allowing my team to finish more tasks and win more client accounts.
James Parsons, Content Powered
Hypercontext
Hypercontext is a team collaboration tool that empowers managers and remote teams by aggregating all collaborative agendas in one place. It combines weekly meetings, quarterly workplace priorities, and other engagement metrics to ensure the high productivity and engagement of the workforce. It also offers integrations with other productivity platforms like Google Workspace, Microsoft Teams, and Slack to streamline tasks, objectives, and remote work across different platforms.
Tory McBroom, Pond Academy
Basecamp
Basecamp, a digital project management and remote communication tool, is a great way to manage, communicate, and collaborate with colleagues online. I find the simplicity of this tool to be the primary reason why it's so appealing, with its clear user interface and wide range of easy-to-learn features enabling everyone to stay on the same page in a remote setting.
Using Basecamp, it's extremely easy to sort and manage information based on project, whilst also assigning to-do items to relevant employees and communicating with internal stakeholders through siloed message threads. Since switching to Basecamp during the pandemic, we've found it much easier to keep track of ideas, archive important documents, and set key deadlines for our employees to follow. This has resulted in much more autonomy for individual employees and freed up time for managers to spend on other important tasks.
Teresha Aird, Offices.net
Loom
Loom is a great teaching tool for remote teams. Through Loom, managers can make video recordings of their activity on their computer screens to show employees how to complete certain tasks and projects. They can also include their voices in these recordings to narrate what they are showing. This is a helpful way to teach employees how to do things on the computer without being in an office with them. Sometimes when instructions are purely verbal or written, messages can get misinterpreted, and this is why Loom is such a valuable training tool within remote workplaces.
Drew Sherman, RPM
Google Docs
Call scaler is a 100% hybrid business - this means that collaboration is vital to the success of teamwork. Using google docs and spreadsheets is a great way of promoting teamwork and live collaboration with multiple people being able to access the doc at the same time for work purposes. We rely on teamwork, collaboration, and Live engagement - this is how we distribute work and promote information on one document that is accessible to everyone in the team.
Curran Van Waarde, CallScaler
Trello
It is an excellent example to set a standardized method of performance review by using an appraisal system to monitor your employees' productivity and outputs. There are several tools that you can use, like Trello. Trello allows you to see the progress in their projects. Set objective key performance indicators such as minimum sales, closed deals, and customer satisfaction rating.
Debbie Meeuws, Nature's Arc Organic
Accelo
Accelo has an automatic time-tracking feature that helps you check remote teams' productivity and the billable hours spent to accomplish their tasks. The tool's robust automation enables you to designate and deliver multiple projects on time, removing the need for manual procedures that take time to finish. It also improves work efficiency and streamlines work processes across the team, enhancing collaboration and teamwork.
With Accelo, you can enjoy a cloud-based outlet that simplifies every aspect of your operation, such as looking for a prospect, proposing a project, submitting tickets, making payments, etc.
Adam Garcia, The Stock Dork
3veta.com
3veta.com is a platform for remote teams, designed by a remote team. It enables your remote team to do your scheduling and video meetings in one single place.
With 3veta you can have full visibility of your team’s availability with a shared team calendar (2-way calendar sync with Google, Apple and Microsoft). You can create meetings by choosing the best time for everyone on your team or outside it. With 3veta you and everyone on your team can create personal booking pages so you can receive bookings and hold your meetings on your own branded platform.
By using 3veta, everyone is free to use whatever other tools they want. It smoothly integrates with all other tools and makes collaboration much easier.
Iliya Valchanov, 3veta
Slack
The one productivity tool that works well is Slack, a versatile messaging platform. Slack allows our team to communicate clearly, which is vital for remote teams. Because of its dedicated channels, messages and files don’t get lost, and conversations don’t get muddled. Slack’s fun and practical features helped us build a collaborative, cohesive, and effective team despite being in different locations. An example is customizing our Slack workspace to reflect our company culture with custom emojis. Slack also integrates other productivity apps and services so that everything is just at our fingertips.
Kevin Huang, Ambient Home US
Toggl
Managing your time is challenging, especially when tracking multiple projects. That's why I love using Toggl to track hours by project and team member. Toggl also allows you to evaluate your efficiencies. Contractors or team members can attach weekly, monthly, or project-based reports to invoices so you know which projects are the most profitable and which ones aren't.
If you manage a business or a department reviewing these reports weekly or monthly can give you insight to how your team manages quarterly goals and areas of improvement like team training or sales and marketing. In short, Toggl is perfect for any remote team to build better efficiencies.
Melody Johnson, The Course Consultant
Notion
I prefer to use Notion for my company, because as a hybrid-functioning business we have a lot of time where we are not sharing space with our team, so it is imperative to have a solid program for tracking our ongoing projects.
Notion is an easy-to-use platform that makes all of our projects easily accessible and trackable, so we always know who is doing what. It helps us to organize deadlines and keep communication flowing about the state of things, so I am constantly apprised of where things are going. I have yet to find a productivity tool more efficient for my business and my team!
Chandler Rogers, Relay
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