One of the best ways to increase productivity in team projects is by making sure your employees have the right tools to become successful. Here are a few of the best tools available today to help with project management.
Microsoft Excel (Google Sheets)
One of the best and cheapest project management tools for employees is Microsoft Excel, which comes as part of the Microsoft office suite with other tools such as Word and Powerpoint. An alternative to Microsoft Excel is Google Sheets, which is free to all Google users. This tool allows your employees to keep information, data, and scheduled tasks organized in a spreadsheet that is shareable and editable amongst different team members. Most employees should have a base level understanding of either Microsoft Excel or Google Sheets, and there are plenty of free tutorials online for employees to better learn this tool, and ultimately become more effective in their organization.
Hubspot
Hubspot is a Customer Resource Management tool (CRM), that allows employees to have a large amount of project and client data stored to help record activity on projects, give reminders of tasks, and even send out pre-scheduled emails. Hubspot can integrate with marketing, Sales, and internal teams to help production flow smoothly.
Salesforce
Very similar to Hubspot, Salesforce is a versatile tool that can help manage team tasks, team productivity, and project data to help your employees learn how to be more productive and keep them organized as they complete projects. Salesforce features learning courses and can benefit all teams within a company to stay organized and reference projects from various teams.
Monday.com
If working on smaller teams, Monday is a great CRM tool that offers free trials and will help your teams stay organized. It helps employees and coworkers track their progress, create tasks, follow up on task completions and enhance team workflow and unity. This platform also many other integrations such as marketing, IT support, HR & recruiting and creative & design.