Leadership has always been essential to the success of any business, especially in today’s fast-paced environment where employees are expected to perform at their best. To be an effective leader, you must be willing to learn new strategies and implement them into your everyday routine and your business practices. To keep your employees productive throughout the day, you need to ensure they’re on task and motivated to get things done quickly.

Getting started with a new ITSM tool can be intimidating - but migrating from one service desk tool to another is likely much more complicated. Over time, there’s so much data, not only from your tickets but also your knowledge base, users, and so on. Moreover, the company is comfortable using the software, they know how to navigate and interact with the interface. So, it’s very rational to fear a platform change.

Node 12 LTS is coming to an end, so let's see what you can do to make the transition fairly simple and painless for your team.

If you want to run your team agilely, you need a successful sprint review meetings process. This is a meeting where the team demonstrates what they have accomplished in the last sprint and discusses what they will do in the next one. As with any Agile meeting, the goal is always to keep the whole process focused on specific objectives. This means that a successful sprint review meeting is well-organized and runs smoothly.

Trying to keep track of several conversations in one timeline at once can often feel (and look) like long division! Cross-talk, replies, and reactions make your timeline feel disjointed and messy. It’s less than ideal, especially if you use Element to enhance your productivity. Threads help you separate conversations from the main timeline.

Uncertainty has abounded for businesses in the past 24 months. Whether they adapted to operational transitions, supply chain disruptions, or hiring challenges, unpredictability was par for the course. Assessing this unpredictable business landscape, The New York Times notes, “at companies large and small, new and old, public and private, 2021 was a year that played havoc with expectations.

The first rule of change management is that people don't like to change, and anyone involved in managing a major change will tell you this is all too true. WIIFM is an acronym that stands for What Is In It For Me. In essence, it’s a truth that leverages some cold, hard facts about human nature to actually facilitate change. So, while it’s a bit of philosophical insight, it’s also a useful tool for organizational change. WIIFM helps by doing three things.

Last fall, we published a post on how despite the ongoing impact of Covid-19, Courier would remain committed to keeping our office in San Francisco and focusing our hiring efforts on local talent in the Bay Area. As the company has evolved, we’ve decided to shift our approach to a remote-first model.

Want to jumpstart sluggish productivity in your organization? With a systematic training model in place you can do just that. Find out how to design and implement training and evaluate results using software to monitor remote employees - it isn’t just for remote staff monitoring!