Do you ever feel like your team is having a communication breakdown?
Cue Jimmy Page guitar solo.
No matter how large or small your team is, there’s a lot that needs to be communicated—
from projects to clients to events to general internal notifications. Sure, email is great, but with the copious amounts of messages that many of us receive these days, it can be hard to keep it all straight and a real challenge to if you need to go back and find information buried deep in a thread from three weeks ago. Phones are clearly a good way to reach someone, but with many people on-the-go, speaking may sometimes be inconvenient and prolong the sharing of information if you need to wait for someone to get back to you.
Since its launch in 2014, the business communication application Slack has connected teams to the resources they need to efficiently correspond and therefore, get stuff done, and it is currently the fastest growing business app in history. Slack houses a team’s communication together in one convenient place, where topics of correspondence live in ‘channels’ that are completely customizable to the context of your conversations. You have instant access to external apps within Slack such as Google Drive, Dropbox, Trello and Twitter—to name a few—that can be integrated into Slack while remaining connected to the context of your team’s activity. Messaging within Slack is a great way to share information, ideas and files, and Slack makes it easy to find what you need with a convenient search feature that combs through message history.
Elements started using Slack in 2016 and it quickly became our go-to tool for sharing ideas and status updates, keeping us more organized and informed. Slack’s interface—which can be installed on your computer, tablet and mobile phone as well as used directly online—is beautifully designed with user-experience in mind. Slack has greatly improved the quality of our team’s communication and productivity and we highly recommend it to work teams large and small.
Interested in creating a workspace in Slack? Start here.
Illustration credit: Slack
