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be Efficient
Create a Task
- Flexible Task Creation: Create an ad-hoc task for immediate needs or kick off a task from a workflow template for structured processes.
- Populate Task Steps: Outline the necessary steps within the task to ensure clarity and completeness.
- Add Context: Attach or embed files to provide teammates with all the necessary information in one place.
- Set a Due Date: Specify a particular day and time, or a date range for ongoing tasks.
- Assign Responsibility: Designate the task to a specific person to avoid any confusion about ownership.
Collaborate with others
- Teammate Involvement: Add collaborators to steps in your task to ensure everyone receives notifications for updates.
- Add Comments: Use the comments feature to discuss step details directly, keeping all communications clear and organized.
- Standardized Workflow: Create templates for recurring task categories like customer onboarding or budget approvals, to streamline collaboration
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Benefits Of Using Task Management Software
- Improved Collaboration: Task management software unifies team and departments, streamlining communications, collaboration and file sharing to create better outcomes.
- Enables Problem Solving: It enables quick problem resolution and encourages accountability, preventing project delays no matter where your people are working.
- Builds Efficient Resources: Task management tools helps you better understand where your resource is going, where it’s needed and where you can take it from. It will prevent bottlenecks and replace them with streamlined workflows and efficient project progression.
- Prevents Bottlenecks: It will prevent bottlenecks and replace them with streamlined workflows and efficient project progression.
- Allows For Better Planning: With a single, centralised task management platform, you can break projects down into individual tasks and organise, prioritise and track them in real time.
- Enables Swift Changes: If things aren’t going to plan and you need to change course, you have all the information in one place to make the right decision.
- Enhances Workflow: Task management software fosters communication and collaboration to strengthen any workflow – no matter how many stakeholders.
- Gives You Real-Time Monitoring: Enabling immediate updates and team notifications, task management tools help workers and teams make immediate tweaks and changes as soon as they’re flagged.
Frequently Asked Questions
What are some examples of task management?
The most common examples of task management are personal time management, which involves using tools and techniques to organise and prioritise daily tasks and personal goals on an individual level, and team-based task management, which is the same but within a collaborative group.
There’s also project task management, involving breaking down projects into tasks, setting deadlines, allocating resources within a team and monitoring progress. And finally workflow management, which is about managing a set workflow and involves automating processes and tracking task completion.
How do you manage tasks effectively?
To manage tasks effectively, start by clearly defining your objectives and breaking them down into smaller, manageable tasks. Then prioritise those tasks based on urgency, importance and their deadlines, and allocate the rights resources – be that time, or if you’re working in a team, people – to complete each task.
As you work through those tasks, regularly monitor their progress and, if you’re working with others, also regularly update your team to ensure that everyone is aligned. If priorities, timings and circumstances change, adjust plans as necessary.
The best way to effectively and productively manage your tasks is by using task management software.
Can I try task management with beSlick for free?
Yes! We offer a free plan that’s free forever for up to three users. And we also offer a 14-day free trial to users of our standard offering, which is our best option for small teams.
Is beSlick task management software built for teams?
Our task management software is all about helping teams track their tasks and projects better, improve how they collaborate and enhance their productivity. While beSlick offers many features that are great for individuals, like our to-do manager, we exist to help entire businesses streamline their operations to focus on the work that matters.