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By Julia Martins
Rapport is an essential soft skill to help you build trust, establish effective communication, and develop great relationships with your team members. In this article, we walk you through 6 tips to break the ice and build rapport. Everyone wants a positive relationship with the people they work with. But building a healthy level of camaraderie, rapport, and comfortable conversations takes effort. Sometimes, it seems like people are just born with this skill.
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By Julia Martins
Icebreaker questions help you learn who your teammates are as people—beyond just their work habits. This team building activity focuses on answering fun questions and is a simple way to build trust and morale. Get started with these 130 prompts, which range from favorite knock-knock jokes to existential questions (e.g., is a hot dog a sandwich?). How much do you know about your team members?
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By Ryan Tronier
Retail management involves supervising a retail business's day-to-day operations. This includes making sure everything runs smoothly, from managing inventory to improving the customer experience. To do this, store managers must have smart business growth strategies and a keen understanding of how to scale a business effectively. These key retail industry skills allow businesses to meet customer demand and maintain their competitive edge.
If you had to guess, how much time do you think you spend on manual work? Looking back, it doesn’t alway feel like a lot, because “manual work” can take so many different forms: setting up documents, routing work, creating reports—the list goes on. But manual work is a huge contributor to work about work, the busywork that takes up 60% of every workday.
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By Dani Spires
As Head of Digital at Asana, I’m no stranger to complex projects that span multiple teams and tools. When we decided to launch a major digital brand refresh on Asana.com, I knew we needed more than great ideas to be successful—we needed clear communication, precise planning, and a solid execution strategy to get it done. Luckily, we had Asana’s capabilities to support us every step of the way.
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By Ryan Tronier
Successful retail merchandising relies on teamwork and clear communication. Work management helps your retail team stay organized by assigning tasks, setting deadlines, and tracking progress in real-time. This lets you focus on improving the customer experience and boosting sales. Ever wonder why some retail stores just get it right every time? You walk in, and everything from the product displays to the store layout feels inviting and well thought out.
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By Team Asana
A user story is an informal explanation of a software feature written from the perspective of the end user. A typical user story will follow the format “As a .” Find out how to write effective user stories to accurately represent how a software feature will drive user value. When it comes to expanding your product capabilities, software updates are the key to increasing user value. User stories provide an explanation of a software feature from the viewpoint of the end user.
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By Julia Martins
There are four main communication styles: passive, aggressive, passive-aggressive, and assertive communication. Read about them, their signs, and how to support your team regardless of their communication style. Knowing how to effectively communicate with your team is critical. Communication is a key component of everything we do at work. Getting our own work done, collaborating with team members, delegating work to teammates, and sharing progress reports all depend on effective communication.
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By Julia Martins
Can you identify exactly who’s doing what by when for each task, milestone, and deliverable in your project? If not, you might need a RACI chart. RACI is an acronym to help teams clarify project roles and figure out who the responsible party is for any given task. Whether you've never heard of RACI before or you’re considering creating a RACI chart for your next project, here’s everything you need to know about how to create and use these charts.
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By Team Asana
Like a resume, an event proposal showcases your event management skills and experiences for potential stakeholders to consider when deciding who will run an event. Use our event proposal template and follow these seven steps for writing an impressive proposal. Whether you're organizing an industry-wide seminar or seeking sponsorships for an upcoming tradeshow, a winning event proposal illustrates why stakeholders should trust that your event will be a success.
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By Asana
Welcome to the September edition of What’s new in Asana. First, copy charts from dashboards and paste them into external applications for presentations and documents. Next, archive inactive portfolios to maintain a focused view of current work while still retaining access to historical records. Finally, use AI chat to quickly and easily follow up on and add comments to multiple tasks. For a full list of what’s new this month, check out our Release Notes in the Asana Help Center.
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By Asana
Connecting goals to your work allows you to bring your biggest, boldest company visions to life.
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By Asana
Connecting strategic planning to your work allows your marketing team to work faster and provides leaders with clarity.
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By Asana
Welcome to Asana. Let's get you started in just a few minutes. Everything starts with a project. Create one from scratch, use a premade template, or import an existing spreadsheet. With your project created, it's time to add tasks. The actionable, bite-sized pieces of work needed to get your project done. Give every task an assignee and due date so it's clear who's doing what by when.
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By Asana
Asana is the only work management platform that connects all of your team's work. From big goals, down to the day-to-day tasks needed to achieve them. Everything starts with projects and tasks. Whether you're launching a product, handling work requests, or managing a marketing campaign, Each initiative lives within a project. Projects are made up of tasks. Actionable, bite-sized pieces of work. Assign tasks to team members and set due dates to keep everything on track.
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By Asana
Plan your day the Asana way with My Tasks and Inbox. Rather than tracking to-dos in emails or your head, start by visualizing your day's work in My Tasks. Here, you'll see all the tasks assigned to you across every project in your organization. Create new tasks for work you need to get done, organize your tasks with sections, or group them by things like due date or project. And choose your favorite view. Open the detail pane to find all the context you need to start working. And when you're done, complete the task.
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By Asana
New to Asana? Let's take a quick tour. From the top bar, you can access your settings, search for work, or create new items. Use the sidebar to move between different spaces in Asana, and invite teammates. Star important items to add them to your sidebar, and collapse it if you need more room. From any project, click on the right side of a task to see its details and add comments. Focus on today's task by using full-screen mode.
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By Asana
Welcome to the August edition of What’s new in Asana. First, learn about the volume and status of tasks at the same time with a stacked bar chart. Next, flexibly add and customize notes within a project for meeting notes, jotting down ideas, and more. Finally, share a project with up to 10 teams to bulk add project members.
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Asana is a leading work management platform used by teams to stay focused on the goals, projects, and daily tasks that grow your business.
Asana helps you coordinate all the work your team does together. So everyone knows what needs to get done, who’s responsible for doing it, and when it’s due:
- Get organized: Plan and structure work in a way that’s best for you. Set priorities and deadlines. Share details and assign tasks. All in one place.
- Stay on track: Follow projects and tasks through every stage. You know where work stands and can keep everyone aligned on goals.
- Hit deadlines: Create visual project plans to see how every step maps out over time. Pinpoint risks. Eliminate roadblocks. Even when plans change.
Asana is free for teams up to 15 members with unlimited projects and tasks. Web and mobile apps are available at asana.com, iTunes, and Google Play.