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- Specific task and project management programs to ensure continuous growth and
softwares to track the progress of assigned development.
tasks and projects as Trello
(https://trello.com/en), Asana
(https://asana.com/), Monday.com
(https://monday.com/), Basecamp
(https://basecamp.com/) , Microsoft planner
(https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-
365/) , ..

These tools can help monitor timelines,
milestones, and completion rates, providing
visibility into team members' workloads and
productivity.

Activity
- Use time tracking software or applications to
Starting with the above mentioned list of
monitor the amount of time spent on specific
monitoring practices in a hybrid work
tasks or projects as Toggle track
environment, such as task/project
(https://toggl.com/track/), Timely app
management tools, time tracking tools,
(https://timelyapp.com/), and many others
communication, regular check-ins, etc, let’s
available online and depending on the needs.
discuss the following questions:
This can help analyse productivity patterns,
identify potential issues, and optimise work ○ Which monitoring practices do you
allocation. currently use or have experience with?
A time tracking is also important for ○ How have these monitoring practices
employees not to spend too much time positively or negatively affected team
working even if they are working remotely. It is productivity and communication?
important to keep normal amount to time off ○ Have you encountered any challenges or
work and “at work”. concerns related to privacy or work-life

balance in the context of monitoring?
- Utilise every day communication and
○ How do these monitoring practices align
collaboration platforms for chatting and stay
with the values and culture of your
in touch even with the distance (real-time
organisation?
messaging, file sharing, and collaborative
workspaces). Let’s share the key insights and observations
with the group (if any). Encourage an open
- Conduct regular employee surveys and
discussion and exchange of ideas.
feedback sessions to gather insights on their
experiences, challenges, and suggestions for Let’s go deeper on to the reflection and ask
improvement. This can help identify areas of ourselves: What are the potential benefits and
improvement and address any concerns or drawbacks of monitoring practices in a hybrid
issues that may arise. work environment? How can monitoring

practices be balanced to ensure both
It is also possible to conduct training and
productivity and employee well-being?
development programs to enhance
employees' skills and knowledge. With the Do you have any best practices or innovative
following activity you can learn how to monitor ideas they have come across or implemented
their participation and progress in these in your own organisations?

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