As a team lead, one of your most important responsibilities is to help team members prioritize the right work to support your organization’s goals. Easier said than done, we know. The fact is there are countless projects your team can be working on at any given time—not all of them high priority or impact. So how do you keep pesky low-priority work at bay and ensure everyone is using their limited time and energy effectively?

The global pandemic has left newly remote workers swimming in confusion and struggling to keep up. To shift from today’s state of surviving to a future where teams are thriving, we need tools that make coordinating and collaborating on work effortless. When teams aren’t clear on who is doing what by when and why they are doing it, they move slowly, miss deadlines, and fall short of their goals.

At Asana, we’re big fans of helping teams collaborate to hit goals they might never have thought possible. Forms is a centerpiece of that collaboration. With Forms, you can streamline work requests, clarify expectations, and get all of the information your team needs to get started on work.

A year ago, the leadership team at The Seattle School of Theology & Psychology, a graduate school and seminary in the heart of Seattle, decided to implement Asana for our administrative teams. One of our strategic goals that year was to build effective systems and structures to support dynamic collaboration. We had been through some significant transitions and were preparing for growth in the pivotal areas of digital products and online programs.

Did you know you can control who sees what information in Asana? Permissions in Asana let you control which information is public or private, who can access tasks and projects, and—if you’re an Asana admin—who is a member of your Asana Organization. Whether you’re an individual contributor, a team lead, or an Asana admin, here are some tips to help you master permissions in Asana.

We’ve all gone through goal-setting exercises at work—but how many of those goals felt relevant, achievable, or personal? Despite the time and energy most teams put into goal-setting at the beginning of the quarter or year, we rarely see the same level of follow-through. That’s because workplace goals are often disconnected from our real work. To set achievable goals, we need to connect them to our day-to-day work.

In unprecedented times, how can organizations use technology to achieve continuity and clarity? It’s a question that countless organizations around the world are asking themselves today. We believe that the solution lies with work management platforms. They allow everyone to do their best work and enable businesses to flourish. But with economies and individual organizations under extreme pressure, we need facts to prove work management platforms are a vital part of the modern tech stack.

No matter where your team works, whether remotely or all together in an office, building a culture of accountability is key to hitting your goals and keeping projects on track. Teammates want to know that they can rely on each other to jump in and collaborate on projects, and managers want to know that individual contributors can meet deadlines and expectations without being micromanaged. At the heart of accountability is communication and transparency.