Sharing your calendar with your colleagues can be a game-changer for both you and your team. It can lead to improved communication, increased productivity and better work-life balance. Here are some of the life-changing benefits of sharing your work calendar with your colleagues:
Improved Communication
Sharing your calendar with your colleagues can streamline communication. By having access to your schedule, your colleagues can easily see when you are available and when you are busy. This can help them plan collaborations and projects around your schedule, reducing the risk of misunderstanding priorities and how long a task should take. It also means that you can avoid wasting time with back-and-forth conversations on how your senior can help.
Increased Productivity
When your colleagues can see your schedule, they can make better decisions about how to use your time. For example, meetings like daily huddles can be reserved for important matters like resolving blockers rather than consuming the entire time on task updates that can be done asynchronously.
Better Work-Life Balance
Sharing your calendar with your colleagues can help you achieve a better work-life balance. By having visibility into your schedule, your colleagues can avoid scheduling meetings or projects during times when you need to attend to personal commitments or simply take a break. This can help reduce stress and prevent burnout, allowing you to maintain a healthy work-life balance.
The era of sacrificing our personal lives by working over 10 hours a day is a thing of the past. The post-pandemic world has highlighted the importance of work-life balance. It is now recommended to share your calendar with your team, including your gym schedule and family obligations, so that everyone is aware and can plan accordingly. Explore how stratappsaas.com can help you.
Go One Better Than Sharing Calendars
Calendar events only give one side of the story. Imagine if you can share with your teammates your and their work capacity, priorities, to-dos and calendar events.
Then you can really help each other, with proper context and knowing when the help will be appreciated most.
stratappsaas.com displays teammate capacity and work priorities, to-do’s and calendar events as follows:
Personal priorities, to-do’s and calendar events are removed from this shared view. This insight is powerful for all team members, not only the leaders, allowing the daily standup to focus straight on what matters and how best to support each other.
