Team management

Sep

Work from home: how to work remotely effectively with your team?

Remote work, team synchronization, virtual project management… Discover tips for working effectively in a remote team, with Klaxoon.

Work from home: 5 pro tips to start out right

A major trend that has emerged over the last few years, remote work or work from fome requires certain good practices to ensure that you're as efficient as possible when working from home. Here are a few tips from teams that work remotely on a daily basis.

Ten digital team building activities for activating efficiency for your remote team

When employees are working remotely, it can be difficult for them to form productive working relationships. Not only can this have a negative effect on your remote team’s productivity and efficacy, it can also reduce employee engagement and satisfaction. In this article, we’ll show you ten of the most effective team building activities for work that can increase morale, cohesion, and focus for your team members. What are digital team building activities? Digital team building activities are games and projects designed to improve the cohesion of your team, all of which can be done remotely. They can be an effective managerial tool, because employees who trust each other (and who feel genuinely involved and invested in a shared project) will be much more productive.

Why is it essential to synchronize, even remotely?

Team synchronization is the key to the success of any collective masterpiece. In cinema, a film is born of the synchronization of image and sound. In music, a harmony is created when the musicians of a group are synchronized. In dance or swimming, the synchronization of movements creates a group performance. Synchronization allows a group to have a shared direction and to make decisions efficiently by promoting collective intelligence, even remotely.

Kaizen: 5 continuous improvement areas to explore with your team

Do you want to improve your product or service quality or make sure you keep to deadlines or budgets? Do you want to avoid turning your organisation upside down from one day to the next?

Building a winning team: the importance of recruitment

The Golden State Warriors, an NBA basketball team based in Oakland, California, have proved that it is possible to shoot to the top of the game.

How are millennials shaping the future of work?

Millennials are inspiring fresh ideas that will change the workplace as we know it while getting companies to be more forward-thinking about the future of work.

How can you make your weekly team meetings more effective?

In a team, when it comes to what each person has to do, every day is different from the last. To enable your team to move forward as one from one week to the next, one good practice is the weekly, a meeting you hold each week to summarise the events of the past seven days and to start the next week with a vision of the direction the team will take.

1-2-4 All : test the 1-2-4 All method with the free Template |Klaxoon

1-2-4 All: the brainstorming method used to generate ideas alone, in pairs, in foursomes, then all together 

Create solutions in a collaborative manner, starting from a given topic.

MoSCoW method: Setting priorities for better project management

The MoSCoW method, aims to prioritize your checklist throughout your project, ranking tasks by level of criticality.

Aug

Daily Scrum Meeting: the sprint development team’s daily meeting

Track and manage the progress of your sprint tasks on a daily basis.

Ikigaï: finding the perfect balance for teamwork

With the Ikigaï template, share your respective skills and competences to work better as a team. ‍

Delegation poker: delegating decision-making as a team with management 3.0

With the "Delegation Poker" model, agree on the decision-making processes with a level of delegation.

Moving motivators: a management tool to understand your team's motivations

Use the Moving Motivators Template to discover what motivates your team on a daily basis and plan organizational changes or redefine missions.

May

Kudo Cards: easily share positive feedback

With the Kudo Cards template, boost motivation by thanking and congratulating you as a team.

Mar

Who's who?: the icebreaker that presents you in a different light

Discover yourself through anecdotes to launch the group's dynamic.

Team tasks list: a unique and shared medium to run the actions as they arise

All the requests sent to the Team are processed in one place.

Team planning: the team's workload in the blink of an eye

Handle as a team your workload and improve everyone's organization in real time.

Aug

Team Mood: the icebreaker that reveals the team's mood!

In less than 10 minutes, let everyone speak and take the pulse of the team with the Team Mood Template.

Team mood forecast: picture of the group's mood

Express your state of mind visually to the team and listen to each other!

Dec

(re)discover the essentials of Klaxoon in 15 minutes

The opportunity to explore the features of the platform, to focus on Brainstorm and to ask your questions!

How to synchronize your team weekly, faster and more efficiently?

Sibylle is a Customer Success Manager at Klaxoon, and is part of the team that supports the millions of Klaxoon users in over 120 countries every day.

How to facilitate decision making in remote meetings?

Adèle is an International Consultant at Klaxoon, and is part of the team that supports the millions of Klaxoon users in over 120 countries every day.

Evidence of the new normal for remote meetings

In this webinar, Joseph A. Allen, Ph.D., Professor of Industrial & Organizational Psychology at the University of Utah, examines the new normal for meetings.

Discover "The Surprising Science of Meetings"

In this Klaxoon webinar, Dr Steven Rogelberg, the world’s leading researcher on meetings, draws from extensive research and insights learned from leading organizations worldwide to share proven practices and techniques for holding effective in-person or remote meetings.

How does NASA maximise collective intelligence to drive innovation?

In this webinar, Steve Rader, Deputy Manager of NASA’s Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation, to explore how the power of the crowd is driving future innovations.

Creating a workplace where productivity & output are valued not facetime

Jace Moreno, Global Customer Success Lead at Microsoft, explores how new ways of working can create a workplace where productivity and output are valued over facetime.

Delivering better projects with multiple stakeholders in the new normal

Allan Ryan, Founder & Executive Director, Hargraves Institute, explains how to deliver better projects with multiple stakeholders in the new normal.

Facilitation and the Future of Work

Eddie Turner, Executive Coach and International Best-Selling Author, examines the expanding role of facilitation in the Future of Work.

What happens when the CES goes virtual?

Gary Shapiro, President and CEO of the Consumer Technology Association, discusses what to expect as the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) goes fully virtual in 2021.

How to best use Klaxoon & MS Teams together?

Klaxoon and Microsoft Teams together is the winning formula for teamwork.

Rethinking rituals to create team togetherness

Ulrik Ramsing, Founder of BlueBehavior, shares how to rethink our daily work rituals to create better team togetherness.

Ideation workshop: at L'Oréal, Vincent brings together 250 participants for remote brainstorming

Giving a boost to e-commerce at L’Oréal with Klaxoon, Vincent Arcin organizes a giant remote workshop.

Case study

How Orange uses Klaxoon for project management and continuous improvement

Problem solving is part and parcel of project management and dynamic continuous improvement.

How to get your team’s week off to a good start

Margaux Chiquet is a partner and co-director of Institut iGi. She uses Klaxoon remotely to kick off the week with her team and align each member’s priorities.

#RemoteWork. How does Thomas manage his team remotely?

Thomas Grobey is the head of a team in charge of managing an EDF plant. Find out how he uses Klaxoon to manage remotely and efficiently his team.

#Sport. How does Mélissa Plaza boost her champions' performances and break down gender stereotypes?

Professional footballer, member of FIFA, coach, businesswoman, with a PhD in social psychology, Mélissa Plaza is an activist whose motto is "together, freer, further". Player engagement, team challenges, collecting feedback… discover how Mélissa has transformed her football training sessions with Klaxoon and broken down gender stereotypes.

François Gabart, teamwork records

François Gabart, renowned yacht racer and holder of the world record for the fastest solo circumnavigation of the globe, is passionate about teamwork.

How to prepare and facilitate online weekly meetings with Klaxoon and Microsoft Teams

Christophe Trapani is National Call Center Manager at CNAF, a branch of the French social security system. He uses Klaxoon directly in Microsoft Teams as a quick and easy solution for preparing and facilitating his weekly team meeting.

Transforming its weekly team meeting to improve performance

François Gabart uses Klaxoon to synchronize his team of 40 associates located on different sites.

Train together at any time to achieve objectives

Sébastien Morin uses Klaxoon to make his training sessions more efficient.

Start the meeting before it even begins

Patrick always starts his team meeting with an icebreaker. 100% of the team is on time.

Sebastien organizes the life of 30 000 students in the multi-campus university of Rennes 1

Sébastien facilitates a team of 12 students "info-relays" located on different campuses.

Project management: gain fluidity when the team expands

How to maintain good organization and communication when the staff number is multiplied?

Ideation workshop: at L'Oréal, Vincent brings together 250 participants for remote brainstorming

Giving a boost to e-commerce at L’Oréal with Klaxoon, Vincent Arcin organizes a giant remote workshop.

Case study

1-2-4 All: the brainstorming method used to generate ideas alone, in pairs, in foursomes, then all together 

Create solutions in a collaborative manner, starting from a given topic.

5 tips to thrive while working remotely with Romane Ganneval, journalist at Welcome to the Jungle

86%. That’s the percentage of French people who say they want to continue working from home occasionally following the successive lockdowns that we went through.

Article

Sep

MoSCoW method: Setting priorities for better project management

The MoSCoW method, aims to prioritize your checklist throughout your project, ranking tasks by level of criticality.

Aug

Daily Scrum Meeting: the sprint development team’s daily meeting

Track and manage the progress of your sprint tasks on a daily basis.

How Orange uses Klaxoon for project management and continuous improvement

Problem solving is part and parcel of project management and dynamic continuous improvement.

Ikigaï: finding the perfect balance for teamwork

With the Ikigaï template, share your respective skills and competences to work better as a team. ‍

Delegation poker: delegating decision-making as a team with management 3.0

With the "Delegation Poker" model, agree on the decision-making processes with a level of delegation.

Moving motivators: a management tool to understand your team's motivations

Use the Moving Motivators Template to discover what motivates your team on a daily basis and plan organizational changes or redefine missions.

May

Kudo Cards: easily share positive feedback

With the Kudo Cards template, boost motivation by thanking and congratulating you as a team.