Work Together

In 2014, the company launched new version of its award-winning collaboration and project management platform and rebranded as Redbooth.

Together, teams can do incredible things! Check out these motivating quotes from world leaders, coaches, inventors and more on the power of collaboration.

One of the most common New Year’s resolutions is to stop procrastinating and be more productive. But when it comes to catching up on our reading – especially for business – procrastination rules. Let’s face it, in our everyday sprint to tackle work projects, attend business meetings (and, oh yeah, have a social life), it seems impossible to actually read extra words and full paragraphs on top of it all!

Well, relax – there’s hope. Here are some tips to help you get through all those stacks of unread books, just sitting there calling your name.

Learning from others can help you get to where you want to go. I know this is true for our team.

Imagine trying to drive to a new destination without a GPS system today. You just might get lost. Now, you can thank others for figuring out the shortest and/or easiest route to get where you want to go (so you don’t have to pull out the old paper map).
By learning from others lessons, you can save loads of time.

During this time of year, we often reflect on what we have learned. And at Teambox, we have learned a great deal from our customers. So, we would like to thank our users who help us and you take online collaboration and project management to new heights.

Check out these lessons. Here’s to a productive 2014!

At Teambox, we’re focused on helping businesses redefine collaboration and communication, and ultimately, helping redefine the future of work, through our one-stop collaboration platform. In 2013, we reinforced our relentless pursuit of this goal through significant growth and evolution in our product offering, including:

HD video conferencing for desktops, mobile devices and tablets within the Teambox platform
The industry’s first secure, on-premise collaboration solution that organizations within highly regulated industries and others seeking a high standard of control over their data and technology infrastructure can host from behind their own firewall
Gmail and Outlook plugins, to make it easy to convert emails into tasks and access Teambox without leaving the email inbox

Steve Jobs promoted it, David Bowie jumped on it, and even former Presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton were surprised by it. We’re talking about team collaboration, of course, and it’s one of the most powerful strategies there is when it comes to achieving personal and professional wow!

In fact, the ability to work and communicate with others – and as a team – is more important than ever. A recent McKinsey & Company study shows that improved communication and collaboration through social technologies could raise the productivity of interaction workers by 20 to 25 percent.

Aside from higher productivity (as if that’s not enough), collaboration leads to other amazing results! Think Bing Crosby and David Bowie. Intrigued?

Here are some of our favorite examples.

Recently, we reached out to the author of an insightful new collaboration book – Creative Conspiracy: The Rules of Breakthrough Collaboration. The author, Professor Leigh Thompson, is the the J. Jay Gerber Professor of Dispute Resolution & Organizations in the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

Her work has been referenced by NBC News, Fast Company, Harvard Business Review, and many others.

Creative Conspiracy provides groundbreaking insight into the world of creative collaboration. In her book, she dispels many commonly held beliefs about creative teams. According to Dr. Thompson, collaboration that is planned and focused on creating new ideas produces excitement and builds a “creative conspiracy” within your team.

Professor Thompson was kind enough to share a few excerpts from her book. Check out this sneak peek into breakthrough collaboration.

Everyone loves a winner and well, we here at Redbooth are no different! We were so jazzed to get the notification this week that we won a Best in Biz Awards Silver Award in the Small/Medium Size Business category for Product of the Year.

What’s even more gratifying is that the Best In Biz awards are the only independent business awards judged by members of the press and industry analysts, so a very objective bunch.

Gantt charts facilitate collaboration. Everyone sees the same plan and has a common understanding of what needs to be done to accomplish the goal.

Last month, we interviewed the team at Pyrrhic Studios on how they are utilizing our project management software in an industry (mobile app development) with a lot of moving pieces.

Pyrrhic Studios is a startup video game developer focused on mobile apps. Their development team is based out of three different countries, with the closest team members living over 1000 miles from each other. Their biggest challenge – managing their virtual team who are spread across the globe.

Check out their story.