How Slack Helps You Communicate with Your Virtual Team
Communication can be difficult, especially when you are working with a team virtually or remotely. Where are the boundaries and how do you make sure you don’t cross them? What is the most appropriate form of communication to ensure both effectiveness and confidentiality with your team? Could the program Slack really help all of these issues?
Communication is key!
Keeping good communication with a team can be a difficult task on its own. As the leader, you’ll need to make sure everyone is understanding and receiving the communication in a way that they understand. Some people respond better to voice communications, others email or shorthand messages, and some may need things written out with close attention to detail. Slack allows you to communicate freely with your team. You can message a team member one on one, create different breakout groups with select members invited, have open areas of chat or group messages for a quick brainstorm.
Things we love:
Taking polls: Voting on projects or ideas with a poll is a fast and fun way for your team to find a solution! Taking polls can be a quick way to help boost morale and productivity without wasting your business’s precious time in another meeting.
Stay in the loop: Slack allows you to create as many channels as you want! Create channels based on projects or teams, and invite whoever should be in the loop in the ongoing conversation.
Direct Messages: Email is great for action plans or larger communication, but Slack is great for sending a DM to someone or to a group for quick questions or updates
Communication can be tricky
Keeping up with a team can be a challenge, but finding the best resource can make the biggest difference! Here at Elevate VA Services, we keep our conversations organized and at our fingertips with Slack. Our team communicates daily and our conversations range from work-related tasks to “watercooler” chat with our coworkers! The goal with having a virtual business is being able to work from anywhere and Slack allows our conversations to keep flowing--at home and on my desktop or running an errand with the Slack app on my phone! What source of communication does your business use? Maybe it’s time to give Slack a try!
