Productivity (page 9)

There’s always more work to get done. In these articles, you’ll find techniques and ideas for increasing your productivity without burning out.

Elevator buttons, representing optimizing the support ticket escalation workflow

How To Optimize Support Ticket Escalation Workflows

A perfect ticket escalation workflow means the customer barely notices the difference. No matter how many teams the ticket has to get through or how much back-and-forth happen between them the customer knows they’re getting excellent service. Here’s how you can live that dream with Unito.

Jerseys for hockey, baseball, and basketball, representing a cross functional team

What Is a Cross Functional Team?

Most of the teams at your organization are like a sports team. They might play different positions, but they’re all generally doing the same thing. Sometimes, you need a team that’s a little more varied to nail trickier projects, more like a rock band. Here’s what a cross functional team is (and why it’s like a rock band).

An illustration of elevator buttons, the up button glowing, representing the support ticket escalation workflow.

What Is the Support Ticket Escalation Workflow?

Even the most dedicated customer support agents sometimes need help from other teams. Whether they need engineering to jump onto a new bug or the billing team to handle a billing issue, some tickets need escalation. That’s where this workflow comes in.

Two electric cables about to be plugged in to each other.

4 Reasons Why You Should Integrate Your Work Management Tools

Few fields have as many tools for the job as project management does. But instead of trying to find the one tool to rule them all, should you instead be trying to integrate the ones your teams want to use? Yes. And here’s why.

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Tracking Progress with a Key Deliverables Board in Trello: Unito on Unito

Whether you’re an executive, a team lead, or a specialist, it’s tough getting visibility on key initiative across the company. Not without Unito, anyway.

Work Breakdown Structure

A Work Breakdown Structure: What It Is and Why You Might Need It

You’ve got your deadline, and the budget’s been set. Now you have to actually plan this project. Here’s how to do that with the work breakdown structure.

Flow state

Why Achieving a Flow State Will Make You More Productive

Work can be something of a rollercoaster. One way to stop that from happening is regularly entering the flow state. Here’s how it’s done.

Using Unito with Freelancers

Better Freelancer Project Reporting in Trello: Unito on Unito

Startups have a lot of design requests. Sometimes you need some freelance help. Here’s how we use Unito to add freelancers to our workflows seamlessly.

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Bucketing My Tasks With an Asana-Trello Sync: Unito on Unito

When you have this many tasks, one work management tool isn’t enough. Here’s how Eman Mehrez, Product Manager at Unito, uses Unito to stay on top of it all.

Cross Time Zone Collaboration

Paperform on Collaborating Across Time Zones

Collaboration is made all the more difficult when your team works across multiple time zones. In this post, Paperform helps you work it out.

The Hidden Impact of Context Switching (And How to Escape It)

Can’t focus? Find out why context switching is preventing you from focusing for more than three minutes at a time — and what you can do about it.