What makes a team successful? And how can we learn from the best and learn from the groups that simply couldn’t connect? Great teams are often successful because they achieved their goals by overcoming adversity and obstacles. And managing high-performance teams takes a lot of trust and innovation to encourage everyone to do their best work. In fact, the 2019 Global Human Capital Trends survey found only 41% of respondents believe their company successfully leads.

Teamwork CRM customers can rejoice in the addition of our new email solution for all GSuite Outlook users. Since we launched Teamwork CRM, we’ve worked hard to bring additional value to all of our customers. At Teamwork, we always listen to our customers for feedback as they use our products each day. A request that we’ve frequently heard for Teamwork CRM is the need for an email solution. Our customers explained how most of their sales conversations took place over email.

There are a ton of popular project collaboration tools on the market to choose from right now—and it's not surprising to see Basecamp on the top of the list. Basecamp isn't just one of the first project collaboration tools to be invented (way back in 2004, to be exact.) It's also made a name for itself by helping teams organize their tasks, share documents, and communicate using just one tool.

Beautiful website design doesn’t just happen. While your clients might think their slick, high-functioning website popped out of nowhere, you know that a lot of blood, sweat, and tears went into it. Most of your clients have never been through the web design process before. This will be their very first experience, which is why it’s so important to make it as straightforward as possible. Doing so will alleviate any stress, confusion, and ultimately, any unhappy customers.

Managing a project is more than just completing tasks and meeting deadlines. You need to stick to a budget for it to be successful too. That's why more organizations are investing in accounting project management to better monitor expenditures for every project. Think about it. If you can’t estimate project costs accurately and control spending once a project kicks off—what will you tell your client?

How do marketing teams stay organized and manage a range of different activities under one umbrella? With email, content, public relations, advertising campaigns, demand generation and everything in between–how do you create a marketing workflow that can handle the minutiae of every project? It can be a headache trying to remember what needs to happen and when–especially when you get into the small details or the overarching goals of each activity.

Complete and up-to-date visibility of tasks and processes is key, especially when it comes to driving seamless collaboration across multiple teams and projects. However, ensuring that your team achieves a high level of synchronicity manually can be a tall order, even for the most seasoned of project managers. Our latest integration is taking the manual work out of bridging the gap between siloes by syncing Teamwork with Jira, offering a real-time view of all of your processes and activities.

As we continue our focus on enhancing the reporting functionality throughout Teamwork this quarter, we’re delighted to introduce the first of three Planned vs Actual Reports — the Planned vs Actual Milestones Report. The aim of this new report is to give you an understanding of the actual status of your Milestones by comparing the original due dates with your current due or completed dates. With this view, you can quickly identify how a project is performing against your plan.

Whether you’re onboarding a new tool within an organization or using an existing tool, it’s critical for your team to get the maximum use out of it. However, it’s just as important to ensure your team is using it as effectively and efficiently as possible. We know that many project management tools can be limited in their functionality and others may be too feature-heavy and it can be a little unclear on where to focus within the product to gain the most value.