Ashley Coolman
Wrike
San Francisco, CA, United States
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Getting a Master's Degree in Project Management: To Do or Not To Do
If you run a Google search for "Master's Degree in Project Management" you will get over 3 million results for schools across the US and around the world. Granted, those results are not solely listings for schools offering programs, but still — scary. If you try to narrow down your search results by going to a site like gradschools.com and filtering by "Business & MBA" and "Project… → Read More
3 Ways to Create Your Project Manager Calendar
Gantt charts are the best way to lay out your 2015 calendar, but they’re also the least frequently utilized. If you’re interested in learning more about using Gantt charts to make your project planning easier, check out Wrike’s interactive Gantt charts and start a free trial. → Read More
13 Productivity Tools & Tips for Small Business Success
When you’re a small- or medium-sized business, you typically have less manpower to get all your work done. This means you need all your employees to be as productive as possible to make sure you meet all your quarterly goals. → Read More
How to Build a Buyer Persona That Converts (Infographic)
As a marketer, it’s your responsibility to send the right people to your sales team and “lego” of the bad ones. You must learn as much as possible about your audience, so you can connect to people’s needs on a more personal level and share your solution. Unfortunately, getting to that point can be tricky; … → Read More
Why You Should Care that Marketing & IT Leaders are Collaborating More (Infographic)
Collaboration is the new way to work. We no longer make progress in the silos of our own departments, we synchronize the efforts of multiple teams to get projects out the door faster and with better results. 55% of marketing leaders say they’re now collaborating more closely with IT leaders than ever before. But there … → Read More
10 Suggestions to Improve Your Marketing Operations from Leaders
Learning about and focusing on improving marketing operations is becoming more critical for digital marketing teams trying to get ahead. Marketing ops usually focuses on (1) managing the technologies that the marketing team purchases, and (2) measuring marketing effectiveness across the board. It’s not just your marketing techniques, but rather, it’s what goes on behind … → Read More
How to Improve Your Collaborative Project Management
There are three main factors that determine the success of a new project or campaign: Excellent top-down and bottom-up communication, so everyone is on the same page with progress, challenges, and achievements; Organized project management to make sure all work is completed on time and within budget; Collaboration between team members and across departments to … → Read More
How Wrike's Live Editor Makes Collaborating Easier
The core of Wrike’s purpose is to help teams work better together. Part of that means simplifying the collaboration process for teams when multiple people need to contribute written content for a project. In the past, teams had to pass documents around through email. Person A writes their version; then Person B adds their ideas; … → Read More
18 Expert Tips to Get Your Team to Collaborate Effectively
When any new project begins, success is rarely guaranteed. Collaboration helps improve the quality of work by bringing in extra brainpower, but coordinating efforts between multiple people comes with its own challenges. These 12 experts weigh in on how to make sure your team is primed for collaboration success: Initial Project Communication Communicate the Purpose … → Read More
48 Experts Share Their #1 Tip for New Project Managers
In our LinkedIn Project Management 2.0 group (you can join us here!), we asked experienced project managers to divulge their #1 tip for newcomers to the field. Not surprisingly, these process fanatics shared a plethora of great tips to help newcomers succeed in this ever-changing area of work. Read through their project management advice below, … → Read More
5 Steps to Implementing a Collaboration Tool for Creative Teams
You’re a creative director. You have too many projects, your staff is already working overtime, and you have no idea how to get it all done quickly and efficiently with your current system. Where do you turn? Collaborative work management solutions help cut down on the wasted time your team loses attending extra meetings, managing … → Read More
Gantt Chart Software: A Key Tool For Project Management (Infographic)
When you’re managing projects, it’s all too common that tasks slip and releases get pushed back. To remedy the situation, you need to learn from your mistakes and improve planning in the future. Online Gantt chart software is a great way to help your team organize your schedule so that you hit every deadline on … → Read More
19 Business Resolution Suggestions to Focus Your Company in 2016
The end of the year is just days away, and our belief is that every year should be better than the last. To help you think about what you can focus on improving for your business in 2016, we asked business leaders to share their thoughts on the most important resolutions companies should be making for … → Read More
Wrike 2015 Year in Review — What We've Been Up to All Year
2015 has been a Wriketastic year! We’ve grown by leaps and bounds the last 365 days — we hope you’ve enjoyed the adventure with us! From new feature releases to help you improve the way you work, to an even bigger and better team, to traveling the globe to speak at conferences, we’ve had a … → Read More
Take Our Survey on Mobile Productivity & Enter to Win!
These days, workers turn to mobile devices to get things done and increase work productivity while on the go. In 2014, 36% of smartphone users and 45% of tablet users had purchased at least one app for their mobile device. But are these apps actually making us more productive, or are they just eating our … → Read More
How to Use Wrike for Goal-Setting and Tracking
The end of the quarter (and another year) means it’s that time again: time to set new goals. Not just annual business goals, but also quarterly goals, monthly goals, and especially personal new year resolutions. One part of your mission when setting goals for your company, departments, or teams should be to share those established … → Read More
9 Ways to Make Sure You Run Effective Meetings (Infographic)
If you’ve read our high-level advice from CEOs on how to fight bad meetings… If you’ve run through our decision tree, “Should we have this meeting?“… And if you’ve decided, “Yes! This meeting is happening!”, then here’s the next part of your journey to holding the perfect meeting. This infographic shares 9 actionable tips to … → Read More
A Manager's Guide to Working with Difficult Team Members (Infographic)
As a career manager or even a first-time manager, the chance of encountering a difficult team member is, unfortunately, very high. You need to prepare yourself in advance to handle the situation without causing additional problems. Even if you’re one of the lucky managers who doesn’t have a chronically cranky member on the team, there … → Read More
26 Sales Process Statistics & Best Practices
Did you know: Nearly 13% of all full-time U.S. jobs are sales positions? (That’s 1 in 8 jobs!) [Source: SkilledUp via The Brevet Group] Over one trillion dollars ($1,000,000,000) are spent annually on sales forces. [Source: Salesforce Training via The Brevet Group] With all this money and energy going into sales, it’s no surprise that … → Read More
Why Email is Addictive and How to Break the Habit
When was the last time you checked your email account? A few hours ago? Were you looking at your inbox right before you started reading this article? Stats from Business Insider reveal that over 1/3 of Americans check their email continuously throughout the day. According to AOL’s 2010 survey, 47% of people claim to be … → Read More