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Lionel Valdellon

Lionel Valdellon

Lionel is a former Content Marketing Manager of Wrike. He is also a blogger since 1997, a productivity enthusiast, a project management newbie, a musician and producer of electronic downtempo music, a father of three, and a husband of one.

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How to Counter the Top 3 Objections to Cloud-Based Project Management
Project Management 3 min read

How to Counter the Top 3 Objections to Cloud-Based Project Management

There are many reasons for the all-too-common resistance to cloud-based project management software. But we think each objection has a real solution on the other side. Let’s take a look.

What Makes a Great Team? (Work Management Roundup)
Collaboration 3 min read

What Makes a Great Team? (Work Management Roundup)

Welcome back to the weekly Work Management Roundup where we collect the best links to articles on work, productivity, teams, and management. This week hasn't been a good one for local review site Yelp/Eat24, what with explosive open letters from ex-employees and then some poor social media decisions from the company. But the situation has

3 Tips for Maximizing LinkedIn's Connection Tools
Leadership 3 min read

3 Tips for Maximizing LinkedIn's Connection Tools

LinkedIn is not just a social network for keeping up-to-date with colleagues and clients, it's also a powerful business connection tool that gives you the ability to communicate directly with industry influencers, job candidates, and prospective clients. But it only works at its best if you invest a little time in optimizing your profile and

Customer's Adoption Tip: Customize Your Own Wrike Manual
Wrike Tips 5 min read

Customer's Adoption Tip: Customize Your Own Wrike Manual

When adopting a new tool like Wrike, it helps to create a digestible document that can help your team understand the process and the benefits of using the tool. This is exactly what Lightspeed POS did. Find out how their customized "manual" helped.

Leadership: The Keys to Instilling Autonomy, Mastery, & Purpose In Your Team
Leadership 10 min read

Leadership: The Keys to Instilling Autonomy, Mastery, & Purpose In Your Team

Want to build a great place to work? Instill autonomy, mastery, & purpose in your team. A lengthy, science-backed discussion on why these 3 factors increase job satisfaction for your workers, making your firm a magnet for top talent, and ultimately boosting your bottom line.

Startups: How to Do PR, Find Investors, & Deal with Failure (Work Management Roundup)
Leadership 3 min read

Startups: How to Do PR, Find Investors, & Deal with Failure (Work Management Roundup)

Welcome back to the weekly Work Management Roundup, where we bring you the best reads from around the web on productivity, work, and management. This week, we shine a spotlight on startups: how to do PR before you launch, how to find investors, what to ask job candidates, and even how to deal with failure.

Our CEO's Guest Post on Inc.: Why Collaboration is Integral to Success
Collaboration 3 min read

Our CEO's Guest Post on Inc.: Why Collaboration is Integral to Success

Do you follow Inc.? Make sure you haven't missed our fearless CEO's latest contributed article on the site! Just to tease your tastebuds: Andrew shares his thoughts on why collaboration, crowdsourcing, and collective wisdom are integral to any organization's success. He also describes how companies that successfully introduce collaboration into their culture ultimately produce successful

25 Keyboard Shortcuts You Need to Know Right Now
Productivity 7 min read

25 Keyboard Shortcuts You Need to Know Right Now

We've put together a list of absolutely useful shortcuts you MUST commit to memory if you want to work smarter and faster.

How to De-Stress by Building Relationships & Deleting Apps (Work Management Roundup)
Productivity 3 min read

How to De-Stress by Building Relationships & Deleting Apps (Work Management Roundup)

In this week's Work Management Roundup where we bring together the best reads in the last seven days (or beyond) concerning productivity, working more effectively, mindfulness, management, and more. This week, we look at how to get rid of stress by deleting addictive apps and making time for nurturing relationships — whether it's with friends or

11 Internet of Things Startups to Watch  (Infographic)
Marketing 3 min read

11 "Internet of Things" Startups to Watch (Infographic)

It's poised to become the largest device market in the world. One research group estimates that by 2019, it will be more than double the size of the smartphone, PC, tablet, connected car, and wearable markets combined.  Samsung even pledged a funding pool of more than $100 million for startups that want to help build the

How to Automate Marketing Project Creation with Duplication
Marketing 3 min read

How to Automate Marketing Project Creation with Duplication

It's Friday afternoon and a new project has just landed in your lap: a new banner for SXSW must be submitted by Tuesday, and yet you're still dealing with your backlog of work from this week. To get the banner done quickly, you'll probably have to copy and paste all the information from the tasks

Use Wrike More Productively With These 8 Tips & Tricks
Wrike Tips 3 min read

Use Wrike More Productively With These 8 Tips & Tricks

If you're new to Wrike, just getting your feet wet using the tool, and are wondering what productivity tricks there are in the software that can make you a more efficient worker, then this post is for you. We've collected 8 of the best tips and tricks (that you might not know about) so you can turbocharge the way you work in Wrike. Read on!

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