What Is the Difference Between Efficiency and Productivity?
Efficiency and productivity are often used interchangeably, but they are distinct concepts that have important differences in the workplace. Understanding these differences can help businesses optimize their operations and maximize performance. This article will explore the meanings, measurements, and applications of efficiency and productivity, as well as strategies for improving them. Try Wrike for free Understanding Efficiency Efficiency
How To Make a Workflow Template
Are you looking to streamline your work processes and increase productivity? One tool that can help with that is a workflow template. In this short guide, we’ll cover the essentials of creating an effective workflow template, from understanding what it is to choosing the right tools and designing the template. Try Wrike for free Understanding Workflow Templates A
Performance Review: Templates, Tips, & More
There are plenty of words and phrases that will immediately put a pit in any manager's stomach. I'm overworked. I'm unhappy. I quit. There's another one that deserves a spot on the list: It's time for performance reviews. At their worst, performance reviews are daunting, nerve-wracking, dreaded obligations — for managers and employees alike. At their best, they're
Top Tips for Setting Team Stretch Goals
To achieve your biggest goals, gain or maintain industry leadership, or attract wide brand recognition, it may be necessary to set stretch goals. These are audacious, scary, and almost impossible goals that inspire your team to go beyond their normal abilities to create novel approaches and solutions. Stretch goals are aggressively ambitious and rarely achieved. When
Top Tips to Manage Your Daily Tasks
It’s Monday morning. You’ve got leftover tasks on your calendar from last week, an inbox full of new requests, and team members who need marching orders for the day. How do you get on top of it all and manage daily tasks in an efficient way? Enter daily task management. You’ll be cleaning up your overdue
Maslow's Theory of Motivation in Project Management
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs can be used to plan any type of project. In fact, the Maslow Theory of Motivation can be the key to unlocking successful project results. Although all of these requirements appear to be unrelated to project management, they can be adapted to suit many areas. Self-actualization, esteem, belonging, safety, and psychological
Employee Engagement Survey: The Productivity Gap
Wrike did an online survey of 5,000+ adults in the United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany, and Australia, who work full time for an organization with 500+ employees. Discover what drives employee engagement so you can build a strategy that boosts productivity and grows your business.
Helping You Reach the Mythical Inbox Zero
Take back control of your work with Wrike’s new Inbox on Android. Let’s face it, we all get a lot of communications these days. Some we need to respond to right away, some we need to come back to later, some that aren’t important at all. For most of us, it’s difficult to keep track
Why Email is Addictive and How to Break the Habit
When was the last time you checked your email account? A few hours ago? Were you looking at your inbox right before you started reading this article? Stats from Business Insider reveal that over 1/3 of Americans check their email continuously throughout the day. According to AOL’s 2010 survey, 47% of people claim to be
Watch Out! 5 Productivity Killers Ruining Workdays Everywhere
It's that time of year again in the U.S., when coworkers start playing pranks and strange behavior seems more common. Some of us are busy preparing our defenses for the spooky weekend ahead, and others are just locking their front doors and waiting for November. But regardless of how you choose to handle Halloween, workers everywhere
4 Ways Leading Teams Avoid Employee Burnout With Wrike Resource
Solving employee burnout starts with equipping leaders with the right tools to help their employees manage their workloads with ease. You need tools to provide visibility into team workload, optimize team performance, and increase resource utilization. Here’s how Wrike Resource can help.
Top 15 Productivity Roadblocks Hindering Your Team (Infographic)
You have your headphones on, music playing, and all notifications muted to allow for maximum focus... and you're still not as productive as you want to be. What are you doing wrong? In our 2015 Work Management Survey, we surveyed 1,464 team leaders and members and asked them to rank their biggest productivity roadblocks. You'll find
How to Increase Business Velocity in 3 Easy Steps
Business velocity can make or break any business — and it's especially important for startups that are struggling to bring a product to market before anyone else beats them to it. Thus it becomes of paramount importance to clear roadblocks and set the stage for team productivity. Except how is this done exactly? At a 10,000-foot view, there really are only 3 steps.
Work Smarter, Not Harder: 25 Must-Know Productivity Tips (eBook)
Do you feel your productivity wane as the week goes on? Or do you start a number of tasks and struggle to finish them, jumping from one to another all day? The COVID-19 pandemic forced most knowledge workers to work from home, and many have found the benefits of remote working worthy of continuing even as