Balancing individual tasks with collaborative efforts?

Efe Kahyaoğlu
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How do you optimize the workload between employees to increase productivity?

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Pavel Kukhnavets
Balancing individual tasks with collaborative efforts can be challenging. To succeed, you should make some effort and choose an appropriate task management PM tool. I'd suggest reading one insightful article, where you will find many answers and tips related to your individual and collaborative tasks and the modern tools to manage them. Here's this article - Best Small Business Project Management Software https://blog.ganttpro.com/en/sma...
Natalya Osyko
Balancing individual tasks with working together is important. Doing things on your own helps you learn and solve specific problems. But when you work with others, you get different ideas and can solve bigger problems. It's like having a toolbox. Sometimes you use one tool by yourself to fix something small. Other times, you need many tools and help from friends to build something big. In the world today, things are often complicated and need both ways of working. So, it's good to have a mix of doing things on your own and working with others. This makes things better and helps us learn from each other.
Mike Gioia
Tried a lot of different approaches, but never found that magic bullet!
Efe Kahyaoğlu
@michelangelo_gioia Hope that this discussion helps you out!
Daniel Hunt
Imo depends too much on the situation to have a one-size-fits-all solution. Maybe the most general approach would be to allow employees to be trusted and feel empowered to self-organise. Then it's just a matter of keeping the team aligned with the right goals and resolving any problems as and when they arise.
Daniel Hunt
@efekahya I wouldn't necessarily expect the workload to be evenly distributed unless everyone in the team has an equal skillset! The most important thing is to make sure that each employee has incentives to do their job well and to be invested in the team's success as well as their own.
Efe Kahyaoğlu
@daniel_hunt4 How do you intervene if the workload is not evenly distributed?