11 Best Productivity Apps for Managers

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Zoom

Zoom has become a staple in many managers' workflows for virtual meetings across remote and hybrid teams. But what was once a simple video conferencing tool, Zoom has now evolved into a communications hub, supporting everything from online meetings to chat, call centers, webinars, and more. Zoom's easy-to-use interface, high-quality connections, large group capacity, and additional features like third-party app integrations, audio transcripts, and in-app video filters, make it an awesome addition to any busy managers app stack.

#Video Conferencing #Phone System #Group Chat & Notifications 195 social mentions

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Google Workspace

Google Workspace (formerly G Suite) is used by more than 6 million businesses and trusted by some of the biggest companies worldwide. As a manager balancing a diverse array of responsibilities, Google Workspace is an awesome foundational system that allows you to communicate, collaborate, and create with your team. The Google Workspace stack includes Gmail, Calendar, Meet, Chat, Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides, Forms, Sites, and more, so you have all the basics you need to manage and enable a productive team. You can also use your Google account SSO to sign up and log in to many different platforms for advanced security and protection (and fewer passwords to keep track of).

#Office Suites #Office Tools #Productivity 53 social mentions

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Toggl Hire

Toggl Hire recognized that hiring is one of the most time-demanding processes for managers, and developed a tool to optimize candidate screening so you only interview the most qualified matches for the role - speeding up time-to-hire by 300% . Between hours spent recruiting, screening, communicating, and interviewing for a role, automating the hiring process at any stage is a huge time win for any manager expanding their team.

#Candidate Screening And Assessment #Hiring And Recruitment #Remote Hiring 2 social mentions

4

Slack

Slack is a messaging and communications platform that allows you to chat directly with any team member or group within your organization. Centralizing all work communications in a HQ interface, Slack also facilitates file sharing, huddles and video calls, third-party integrations, and accessibility options so you can customize it to your needs. For external communications, 'Slack Connect' allows you to collaborate with people outside your company so you can stay in contact with partners, vendors, or customers. Additionally, you can create new Slack workspaces to build out entire open communities to engage directly with users and fans of your business.

#Communication #Group Chat & Notifications #Chat 208 social mentions

5

ReclaimAI

Reclaim.ai is a smart calendar tool that automatically finds the best time for your tasks, habits, breaks, and one-on-one meetings around your existing and evolving schedule. This productivity app saves up to 40% of your workweek through flexible and adaptive time blocking, and checks all of our manager productivity goals by actually automating the gap between your endless to-dos and your calendar -- so you always have time for the most important things on your plate and can balance your time in meetings.

#Project Management #Time Tracking #Slack 136 social mentions

6

Freedom.to

Freedom is an app and website blocker (with over 2,000,000 users) to maximize your focus and productivity. With the very limited amount of time managers have to focus on their own tasks every week, this tool can help you make the most of those valuable deep work sessions by proactively limiting online distractions across devices when you're in the zone. With users gaining an average of 2.5 hours of productive time each day, this tool can be a great addition to a manager's toolkit -- especially if you struggle with distractions during dedicated task work.

#Time Tracking #Time Management #Tool 184 social mentions

7

Evernote

Evernote is a comprehensive note-taking app to help organize your task list, ideas, project plans, rolling meeting agendas, and anything else you need to keep track of. This app helps you uplevel your daily workflow in a clean interface by adding files and to-do lists to your calendar, saving info directly from the web, syncing notes across your devices, and finding what you're looking for faster with advanced keyword search.

#Note Taking #Todos #Personal Productivity 63 social mentions

8

Calendly

Calendly is a popular scheduling tool that saves you time (and stress) when coordinating meetings by taking the back-and-forth out of scheduling with easy-to-share links around your availability and preferences. Calendly helps automate the scheduling process for simple 2-person meetings, up to large group meetings -- making scheduling more efficient by finding a day and time that works for everyone. You can also add multiple calendars to avoid double-booking across schedules.

#Appointments and Scheduling #Appointment Scheduling #Event Scheduling 115 social mentions

9

Asana

Asana is a comprehensive project management platform that aims to help teams 'work on big ideas, without the busywork'. Especially helpful for managers, Asana keeps track of and efficiently organizes what's most important to you and your team -- with an overview of objectives, project plans, deadlines, delegated task work, and more, all in one centralized hub.

#Project Management #Task Management #Work Management 86 social mentions

10

1Password

1Password is a password manager that allows you to automatically generate and store highly-secure passwords or sensitive information for any account you need -- saving you the hassle of having to remember, track, and type them in several times a day. Manage your personal and company passwords in one secure location so you only have to remember a single master password to access all of your tools, and easily share passwords with your team.

#Password Management #Password Managers #Security & Privacy 117 social mentions