10 Must Have Apps for You and Your Team

Francesco D'Alessio

June 5, 2017

4 min read

Managers, interns and CEOs listen up.

Whether you are a startup, small business, or large enterprise all of these resources can come in handy for getting things done with your team.

Team resources are the backbone of our daily productivity allowing us to do marvellous things to coordinate, improve and drive forward our activities.

To-do lists, time tracking and objective setters are all fantastic ways to drive your team’s mission and efforts on a daily basis. Here are 10 must-have recommendations for you and your team.

1. WeekDone: Set Objectives

Setting objectives for you and your team will set a clear mission for your week, month and quarter ahead. WeekDone is one of the best resources for setting those types of objectives and granular missions for your time ahead. Plan, track and monitor your team’s efforts and keep a tally of your progress.

Try WeekDone: here

2. Figure it Out: Time Zones

Working out time zones can be a very tricky thing. Making sure you don’t disturb your international clients whilst they sleep should be one of the most important factors of working with them. Figure it out is a chrome extension to track time zones in a colourful manner, perfect for quick checking.

Try FigureItOut: here

3. Asana: Planning Projects

Many of you may have heard of Asana. It’s the task manager of choice for over 13,000 businesses worldwide and growing. Asana allows teams to map, coordinate and execute on new projects. Easy to use, advanced in function and great for plotting what needs to be happening.

Try Asana: here

4. Everhour: Time Tracking

A resource that integrates with Asana is Everhour. Everhour is a time tracking tool to track the time spent on tasks, providing your team with an account of how you spent your time in the day. Tracking time is one of the most recent trends internally to help drive performance management. Everhour also connects to many other services like Basecamp.

Try Everhour: here

5. Zoom: Video Conferencing

Looking for a better alternative to Hangouts or Skype for you and your team? Zoom is a great video conference software to help improve your daily productivity. Avoid bad signal calls, messy links and even setup processes. Zoom offers free 1:1 meetings to help you get to know the resource.

Try Zoom: here

6. Piktochart: Data Beautification

Creating infographics as a team is one way to help boost your marketing demonstrations but also to provide your team internally with helpful graphics to represent your work in team meetings. Piktochart is a handy resources for bring your data/results to life in meetings.

Try Piktochart: here.

7. Medium: Daily Knowledge

As a team keeping ahead of your learning is vital. Medium is one of the resources that can really add value to you and your team members by giving you a daily dose of knowledge from the experts of the world. Whether it’s marketing or creative, all of these learnings will provide you with progress for your daily activities.

Try Medium: here

8. LastPass: Password Storage

Is your team always forgetting the password?! If yes, this might be a lifesaver for you. LastPass is one of the best ways to link up all of the major passwords you rely on into an easy unlocking system. It’s also perfect for on boarding new team members to all the accounts you use.

Try LastPass: here.

9. Dropbox: Team Storage

Storage is ever growing and resources can sometimes appear messy and unreliable. Dropbox is an extremely valuable resource for a team to start sharing and storing their files, documents and much more. With almost all formats covered, this will become a powerhouse for your storage.

Try Dropbox: here.

10. Feedly: Keyword tracking

Like Medium, keeping tracking of news, competitor actions and market trends is important. Feedly is a great resource to keep an eye on all the trends, progress and insights from other markets. Track keywords, publications and people for your every day insight into what’s happening!