Our Top Tools: Slack

Growing up, parents tell their kids not to become slackers. After all, if you slack off in school, you’re less likely to succeed in life. You’re less likely to go to a major college, or any college for that matter. You’re less likely to attract the right friends that can travel through life with you. You’re less likely to land that dream job, the house on a hill that overlooks the beach, and be set for life. Life is for leaders, and slacking off is not a recipe for success.

But what if it is? What if slacking off was the best thing you could do? What if you could slack the day away and accomplish more than you ever have before?

We want to encourage you to slack off; big time!

It’s not what you think. We don’t want to encourage you to waste the day away. Don’t waste your time and screw around playing hookie and surfing when you should be working. By all means, stay healthy and clear your mind, but you need to stay on task.

But slack off, and do it now. 

As a team, Catalyst Creative uses a project management platform called Slack to organize thoughts, communicate between team members, and manage projects internally and for clients. We slack off, and we do it on a daily basis. And you know what? We’re on task, were highly efficiently, and balls have dropped a lot less often since we implemented this into our tool box. Today, we want to give you three reasons why you and your team should start using Slack RIGHT NOW.

1. Use Slack to organize your thoughts. One of the most useful pieces within Slack is that you can create any number of project channels. We use these channels to start the creative process and give them room to breathe, and perhaps become flesh and blood projects. You can use these channels to start your creative processes, and watch as over time, they come to life.
2. Use Slack to communicate between team members. Most teams communicate via text and email. We still do that too, but for project management, we always use Slack. Slack allows you to not only create channels for individual projects, it allows you the options to discuss events, calendar items, general topics and more specific pieces like the the Fourth of July BBQ we just had. It’s also the most effective tool for streamline communication. That’s why we have #3.
3. Use slack to manage internal and external projects. The most beautiful thing about Slack is the ability to have all communication start and stay in-line via specific project channels. That’s something email and text messaging just can’t do. It’s something a lot of other project management platforms try to do well, but just can’t handle. Slack does this, and does it best.

Bottom line. 

You’re probably not using anything right now to manage your workflow. You’re also probably less efficient than you could be and probably should be. Your team needs the backbone. It needs a system from which to work from. It’s needs space for their creative ideas to breathe, and then the workflow to allow them to soar.