Learn how to write actionable goals using quarterly OKRs. Write your Objectives in a way that encourages people to get things done. Continue reading
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Read the latest tips for business leaders, from goal setting and weekly reporting to team management and productivity.
Transparency in business is more important than every before. Learn why your company should be transparent and some tips on how. Continue reading
Ever felt the urge to be less busy so you could start getting things done? Well, you need start from correct planning and Pareto analysis is the first step. Continue reading
Learn how to prioritize your to do list with the PIE framework - which rates tasks based on impact, importance, effort, and quarterly strategy. Continue reading
Discover how to train a new employee so they stay for the long hall is important to any company. Check out our guide, with examples from Google and more! Continue reading
OKR - Objectives & Key Results
Objectives and Key Results (OKR) is a popular method for setting and sharing goals, objectives and measurable results.
Learn how to write actionable goals using quarterly OKRs. Write your Objectives in a way that encourages people to get things done. Continue reading
Once teams and companies start to understand the potential of the Objectives and Key Results framework, the first question they... Continue reading
I am proud to present one of the high-performers in the Weekdone community. Meet Kaspar von GrĂĽnberg – CEO of... Continue reading
We are here to provide you with a guide to getting started with OKRs. Join the likes of Facebook, Netflix, Google, Asana, Amazon and thousands of SME-s. Continue reading
OKR templates serve as a great start to implementing OKRs. Check out Excel, Word, and software templates with OKR examples. Continue reading
Google paved the way for the future of management through Objectives and Key Results. Learn how this tech giant sets goals and achieves them. Continue reading
An introduction to OKR (Objectives and Key Results) that will help you get started. Check out our infographics and find additional resources. Continue reading
Weekdone's team management and internal communication software users already enjoy the benefits of weekly PPP (Plans, Progress, and Problems). This methodology,... Continue reading
The closer we get to the end of the year, the more serious we get about goal setting. Turns out,... Continue reading
Here's how the success is propelled with OKRs, Objectives and Key Results, in Google, LinkedIn, Zynga and Swipely. Continue reading
Progress Reporting & Team Status Updates
How do the best leaders facilitate open and transparent communication in their teams? Using progress reporting and team status updates.
How do you handle status reporting? What kind of software is useful for managing team projects? We cover how these connect to advance your business. Continue reading
Avoid these 10 progress reporting mistakes and discover how an effective progress report template looks like. Achieve more by actually doing less. Continue reading
Employee progress reports help to get the insights you need to your team. Check out our gifographic on 6 steps to efficient employee progress reports Continue reading
Employee progress reports don't just give valuable information about your team but they provide a great opportunity to give timely feedback. Continue reading
Weekly reports are important to stay in communication with your manager. Read more about how to write your weekly activity report effectively. Continue reading
Weekly status reports enables managers to track their employees’ performance and progress at all levels. Learn their importance with additional resources. Continue reading
Status reports templates to help you to establish reports for company, team, and individual usage. Look at these examples to learn about PPP. Continue reading
Status reporting is not useful unless everyone in the team uses it. How you get your employees to embrace a new software? Weekdone has tips. Continue reading
Team Leadership & Management
You can be the best leader in the world. Whether you're a first-time team manager or a seasoned leader, read how it's done.
When adopting a new methodology like OKRs, teams can easily lose interest overtime or down right refuse to even give it a try. So what can be done to solve this problem? While their are many different things you can try, at Weekdone we have seen one tactic work particularly well with our customers: the OKR Champion. Continue reading
Your team goals are vital to the success of your long-term projects. The best goal-setting and tracking framework the Objectives and Key Results methodology Continue reading
I wish I had had someone, or some materials, to guide me through the OKR process the first time as a team leader. Now I'll try to make it easier to you. Continue reading
 We gathered the best 10 infographics that we believe to be simple, practical and proven to make you a better leader. Continue reading
Weekdone conducted a survey to see what employees who use Weekdone really think about weekly reporting and Objectives & Key Results. Continue reading
Companies often overdo their HR and management policies. Here's a look inside the shortest employee handbook, sometimes the simplest things work best. Continue reading
In an ideal world we as managers believe we know quite clearly what our employees do and think, what their... Continue reading
Last week we told you about the results to our survey: "What employees really think of their managers." We also... Continue reading
The latest Forbes leadership post touched on a topic that's close to our heart at Weekdone. It started like this:... Continue reading
Weekdone is all about making you a better manager or employee. Using Weekdone makes teams and companies better. That's our core... Continue reading
Internal Communication, Collaboration & Teamwork
No great company succeeds without investing into team collaboration, open and transparent communication and teamwork.
Learn about the best project management tools and what you should look out for when searching for the perfect tool to use with your team. Continue reading
Organizational communication or internal communication is a struggle in many companies. And a reason people leave. Getting it right gives you an advantage. Continue reading
We gathered the best 10 infographics that we believe to be simple, practical and proven to make your team better. Continue reading
77%Â of companies are adopting collaboration softwares to a great or moderate extent. Â What are the problems that these collaboration tools are solving? Continue reading
For 35 years, GM couldn’t implement a culture of teamwork and internal communication, In 2010 American taxpayers floated their $50 billion bailout. Continue reading
For 35 years, GM couldn’t implement a culture of teamwork and internal communication, In 2010 American taxpayers floated their $50 billion bailout. Continue reading
We want everyone in the office to be a superhero. But we also want them to work as a team, so here are my observations on how to make it work. Continue reading
Weekly reporting is a powerful tool that helps managers understand what's going on in their teams. Like all tools it's only useful when used correctly. Continue reading
77%Â of companies are adopting collaboration softwares to a great or moderate extent. Â What are the problems that these collaboration tools are solving? Continue reading
This is the story of a company called TrendWatching and its ever changing challenges. It’s also a blueprint for how to stay productive despite working remotely. Continue reading
PPP - Plans, Progress, Problems
Plans, Progress & Problems (PPP) is the best-known way to share weekly team status updates, goals, and accomplishments.
Wondering if weekly planning is for you or your team? Here are 5 reasons why weekly planning will help you in acheiving your goals. Continue reading
Progress reports are among the best management tools you can use to kickstart your productivity. Check out this guide with a sample template to get started. Continue reading
Team leaders road-map to successful teams. 3 questions every good team leader should ask from their teams on a weekly basis. Continue reading
Team leaders road-map to successful teams. 3 questions every good team leader should ask from their teams on a weekly basis. Continue reading
Progress reports are among the best management tools you can use to kickstart your productivity. Check out this guide with a sample template to get started. Continue reading
Productive people take breaks. That doesn’t mean they waste their time. We’ve made a list of things you should try out during your lunch break. Continue reading
Wondering if weekly planning is for you or your team? Here are 5 reasons why weekly planning will help you in acheiving your goals. Continue reading
Work reporting is important for any team, but if handled incorrectly, can take up all of your time. Learn how to report your work effectively & efficiently. Continue reading
Telecommuting & Working From Home
Remote teams and distributed telecommuters are more common than ever. Here's how to do it really well.
Working remotely is becoming more popular. Here are some best practices for working remote to help you handle the challenge. Continue reading
Remote working still seems like a scary thing for many managers. The idea of not controlling employee's time feels like a lose of power. Continue reading
You can remotely manage your team just as well. The key is to keep these long-distance relationships as engaging as possible. Here is how you achieve that. Continue reading
Having experience in remote team meetings, we've tested various tools and methods. Here's our list of recommendations to help you manage a virtual team. Continue reading
Leadership can make remote workers successful. Read the clever techniques used by successful companies that keep their remote team connected. Continue reading
A list of must have tools that can help any virtual team succeed when working remotely. Continue reading
Leadership can make remote workers successful. Read the clever techniques used by successful companies that keep their remote team connected. Continue reading
Are you tired working in your cubicle? Check out the 9 best remote workplaces. Continue reading
Having experience in remote team meetings, we've tested various tools and methods. Here's our list of recommendations to help you manage a virtual team. Continue reading
You can remotely manage your team just as well. The key is to keep these long-distance relationships as engaging as possible. Here is how you achieve that. Continue reading
Productivity, Time Management & Efficiency
All about improving team performance and achieving better productivity. Uncover the hidden ways to be more focused and efficient.
Below you'll find a few tips to make your day go by quicker -- and more enjoyable. First off, cut out any unnecessary tasks. Continue reading
This productivity notebook is your guide to achieving more by doing less. And the best part is that it is completely free! Download your copy today. Continue reading
Thinking on how you could be more productive at work? Here's 10 infographics that we believe to be simple, practical and proven to make you more productive. Continue reading
Prioritizing tasks is a key component for getting a raise or a promotion. Simply put, we can get more when we demonstrate that we added more value. Continue reading
You are doing your best to get your work done, but something keeps holding you back. It's like a flu that inhibits your every effort to perform. Continue reading
The Eisenhower Matrix provides a great clue on how to focus your plans. Study each four quadrants to learn how you can achieve more by doing less. Continue reading
Achieving a productive week is a challenge. That's why we need best practices that are easy to implement. Here are our 10 picks to productive week. Continue reading
Effectiveness is a set of practices, meaning we all can get better at them by using some key rules. Learn how to be an effective executive today. Continue reading
Some people pursue happiness, others create it. It's in your hands to create workplace happiness that makes your team flourish. Continue reading
Below are a few highlights and important factors from "The Productivity Manifesto" that you can use to boost your productivity today. Continue reading
Effective Meetings & Meeting Planner
Running better meetings and better meeting planning is one of the best ways to save time and improve productivity.
We've declared a war against inefficient team meetings and as an experiment tried teamwork without meetings ourselves. See what we learned. Continue reading
Had a bad meeting? Chances are that one of the following stereotypes ruined it. See how you can deal with the bad stereotypes at meetings. Continue reading
Had a bad meeting? Most likely one of the following stereotypes ruined it. Or maybe you are one of them. Take the Quiz to find out. Continue reading
How to make one-on-one meetings better and profitable. Let's make sure, meetings are not just time-killers but bring actual value into your team. Continue reading
Steve Jobs had some very effective meeting guidelines. He used simple rules to optimize time. Here, we cover how to hold effective meetings. Continue reading
Weekdone Product & Company News
Learn all about Weekdone, the leadership and team management tool that has found it's way to many of the most successful companies.
We interviewed a number of Slack & Weekdone users to see what exactly they needed out of our Slack integration. Based on this feedback, we are streamlining the two systems to save you time and make updating your team even easier. Continue reading
Dark mode has generated alot of hype in the tech world recently. We'll go over the benefits of enabling dark mode and how it can impact your work. Continue reading
When I joined Weekdone, I had little idea of what OKRs were or how to use them. This is my personal story of what I learned through my introduction to OKRs. Continue reading
We will teach you how to align goals with the new OKR hierarchy view. This will help you unify your company by introducing a new hierarchy tree. Continue reading
Learn about Weekdone's new feature, "Getting Started" so you can get started with OKRs on your own! This way, you can take learning into your own hands. Continue reading
In the new version of Weekdone we focused on a new feature of managerial reviews and weekly feedback to each employee.... Continue reading
Happy new year, dear Weekdone users! On behalf of our team we wish you a productive 2013. Select your plans... Continue reading
Now you can easily modify your weekly status report. You choose the key insights you want to learn about your team. Continue reading
Good news just keep pouring in. We just made Weekdone free to use for single users and all teams of... Continue reading
Today we launched support for item #hashtags and grouped items pages in Weekdone. You can use hashtags to name topics, customers or anything you like Continue reading
Employee Engagement & Satisfaction
Tips & tricks to define, measure and improve employee engagement, happiness and satisfaction.
Discover how to train a new employee so they stay for the long hall is important to any company. Check out our guide, with examples from Google and more! Continue reading
The ultimate guide to top questions to ask your employees in various situations, whether it is a 1:1, as a new manager, during a review & more! Continue reading
Learn about some of the best employee engagement ideas you can implement to improve team productivity and reduce turnover. Continue reading
Learn how to improve employee engagement and what is hindering it. Discover how you can help your team be more productive and do their job. Continue reading
Motivation leads to higher performance, morale and productivity. Check out this motivation infographic to find out how you can motivate people at work. Continue reading
What's one of the best ways to have better performance, creativity and retention at your company or team? It's having engaged employees. Continue reading
How do you motivate a team to improve performance? Make sure you avoid these 10 common behaviors that have a long-lasting effect. Continue reading
Here are the most useful ways on how to keep your employees from quitting. This list should improve employee turnover and your internal communications. Continue reading
I'm talking about managers making every member of the crew working together towards a common goals. Or as we call it: team work. Continue reading
Deloitte found that their current approach to performance management was wasting 2 million hours per year. So, they crafted a new approach. Continue reading
Customer Case Studies & Interviews
From SMEs to Fortune 500s, Weekdone is used across the world to improve team communication and productivity. Learn how it's done.
"We've always had weekly meetings to synchronize everybody's objectives, but we reached a point in scaling where we couldn't keep up with everybody. We didn't want to lose our focus on long-term objectives" said Jaume - BMAT COO Continue reading
Once teams and companies start to understand the potential of the Objectives and Key Results framework, the first question they... Continue reading
I am proud to present one of the high-performers in the Weekdone community. Meet Kaspar von GrĂĽnberg – CEO of... Continue reading
Exxact Corporation has been using Weekdone for a few months and we talked to them about status reporting, OKRs and how implementing Weekdone went for them. Continue reading
Shawn is a big fan of OKRs methodology and he required a suitable software to match his needs. According to Shawn, he looked at 7-8 different OKRs solutions Continue reading
One of the questions we commonly get here at Weekdone is: "How are others using this?" That is a pretty... Continue reading
We are so excited to share Stephanie Bailes thoughts from Peninngton & Bailes on how are they using Weekdone´s weekly reporting tool. Continue reading
A team from Whole Foods Market give insights how to improve meetings and drive team growth by using weekly progress report. Continue reading
We at Weekdone have not limited the usability of weekly progress reports to specific companies or specific industries. In fact,... Continue reading
Thinking about going remote? Read how a global SaaS company AgoraPulse was able to go remote by using status reports that made collaboration easy. Continue reading
Fun
Inject a dose of fun and a breath of fresh air into the daily 9-to-5 lifestyle.
With a show like Game of Thrones, there was always going to be a negative backslash to how it ends. But it could have been avoided. Continue reading
We called upon the holiday magic, and enlisted the help of a squirrel, to give you this Holiday Calendar of Productivity. Continue reading
his Manager Simulator is a easy way to see, how well you’d do as a manager. Try it out Continue reading
In our daily office grind, we disguise ourselves as Clark Kents and Bruce Waynes. Let's rip off these gray suits and reveal the real Superheroes at work. Continue reading
For some Friday fun: next time when you're working on your to do list, try humming this to Pink Panther... Continue reading
We are extremely happy to see that our hard work has been acknowledged. Weekdone has been selected as the winner... Continue reading
Get some cake for the office because in Canada, the States and Lithuania, it is the National Boss Day. The... Continue reading
Happy Halloween to everyone! Wallace, our moustached mascot agreed to wear a seasonal costume in celebration of the holiday. Download the wallpaper. Continue reading
Many have asked us about the Weekdone weekly reporting Android app that we promised to launch in Q1. Till today... Continue reading
