🎙With text messages, emails, and social media or instant messaging, communication within a company can quickly become complicated and confusing, with decentralised conversations resulting in missed information and time-consuming trawls through apps to keep up with ongoing interactions. Steve is here to show you his method of keeping things simple and easy to follow.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

💡 Have a standardised, central place to delegate tasks. In this manner, you can communicate about the task within the task manager app.

💡 Steve uses Asana, designed as an online Task Manager and Workflow tool to allow you to delegate tasks from the repetitive to the one-off project. 

💡 Create a staff policy to ensure all communication regarding a specific task should be done in the comment section of the task itself within the Task Manager. This way, you will avoid conversing about that task over different messaging apps.

💡 The advantages of this centralised approach are avoiding long searches through multiple messaging apps for data regarding the task and future access to a comprehensive audit trail regarding the task for problem-solving.

💡 Instant Messaging Apps can still be utilised to inform your staff that a new comment has been added or an update has been made on the task. This is done by getting the task link and sending it through an Instant Messaging App. 

💡 Traditional communication methods contain distractions. You avoid this with the specific nature of Task Managers.  

💡 Slack is a communication app designed for businesses with specific organised spaces for people to discuss work without distraction or disruption. It allows for easy cross-departmental communication regarding a project and includes comprehensive integration with other apps and software to centralise tasks and discussions. 

BEST MOMENTS

1:22 - 💬 ‘We’d have a nightmare managing people's workloads. What are they working on now? How do I prioritise task A over task C without confusing the person over task B or giving feedback? It was just a total mess.’   

3:07 - 💬 ‘People like using email. They like using instant messaging apps. They’re used to it, and it’s convenient for them. And that's why you need a policy to force people back into the Task Manager to make this work.’

8:54 - 💬 ‘If you remove people from going in their inboxes regularly to check up on conversations, it removes people from getting distracted by other stuff. Effective communication between your team should happen away from all distractions.’ 

11:20 - 💬 ‘Slack is a stand-alone business app, away from any social media and away from any distractions. It allows you to have group conversations and collaborate effectively. One key feature is that if you add someone to a channel, they can then see the history of all the conversations that have previously happened.’ 

VALUABLE RESOURCES

Website: www.SystemizeYourSuccess.com

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Instagram: Instagram.com/systems_and_outsourcing/

YouTube: YouTube.com/@drsteveday42

ABOUT THE HOST

Steve used to be a slave to his business, but when he moved to Sweden in 2015, he was forced to change how he worked. He switched to running his businesses remotely. After totally nailing this concept, he spent his time helping other small business owners do the same. Steve’s been investing in property since 2002, has a degree in Computing, and worked as a doctor in the NHS before quitting to focus full-time on sharing his systems and outsourcing Methodology with the world. He now lives in Sweden and runs his UK-based businesses remotely with the help of his team of Filipino and UK-based Virtual Assistants.

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