As a CEO, your number one priority is leading your company towards growth and success. But with so many plates to spin, your time can often get eaten up by the repetitive tasks you need to keep on top of.
To be able to achieve everything on your to-do-list, working out how to be at your most productive is probably top of your mind. The good news is that you don’t have to go it alone — there are tons of tools for CEOs (and your personal assistants!) available that can help boost your productivity by streamlining the daily tasks that distract you from the bigger picture.
Here, we go through seven of the best tools for CEOs that can help you boost time management, productivity, and business growth in one fell swoop.
1. TravelPerk
TravelPerk is one of the best tools for CEOs to help them streamline business travel, saving them both time and money on travel management and automation processes.
As well as access to the world’s largest flight inventory and corporate accommodation inventory, CEOs can also enjoy the benefits of TravelPerk’s self-booking functionality to help streamline travel booking across their organization.
Here are just a handful of other ways TravelPerk can boost your productivity as a CEO by saving time and money:
You and all employees have access to 24/7 customer support with a 15-second response time if any problems arise during business trips however books travel at the company has access to all travel inventory via a single, user-friendly platform meaning there’s no need to browse through multiple browser tabs to book different methods of transportation TravelPerk’s built-in approval flows eliminate the need to exchange multiple emails to approve trips.
The ability to integrate your travel policies into the platform improves policy compliance and saves money on trips booked outside of policy access to the biggest worldwide inventory gives you multiple means of transport and accommodation options at your fingertips, as well as access to exclusive discounted prices that have been negotiated with suppliersTravelPerk’s VAT reclamation tool, enables you to avoid long and complicated recovery processes and save up to 20% of your annual travel budget.
Want to learn more about how TravelPerk is the perfect tool for helping boost your productivity by streamlining your organization’s business travel program? Reach out today for a free demo!
2. Slack
Slack is a business messaging and collaboration tool available on both desktop and mobile. It’s one of the most useful tools for CEOs to help them regularly communicate with teams and individuals via specific group or project channels, as well as enabling them to send company-wide messages without using long email lists. You can even set reminders, customize your notification preferences to help you focus, and save important messages for easy reference.
Plus, users can hold meetings via the app, create and assign tasks, and even conduct employee onboarding processes using the tool.
Slack also integrates with over 2,400 different business apps including Google Drive, Zoom, Salesforce, Asana, Airtable, various social media apps, and TravelPerk to help you reduce the need to switch platforms.
3. Evernote
Evernote is a note-taking app with powerful features. The productivity tool enables you to create dynamic notes that include links, checklists, tables, attachments, and audio recordings that can be searched for, shared with, and collaborated on with others. You can also organize notes by tagging and filing them into individual notebooks.
For quick note-taking, Evernote’s widgets enable you to write text notes, take photos, and create reminders without opening the app, and you can display the widget on your phone’s lock screen until you need it.
4. Todoist
Todoist is a task management tool that helps business leaders organize, plan, and collaborate. As a CEO planning tool, Todoist starts by helping you select which productivity method works best for you.
The tool enables users to turn emails into tasks, break down tasks into smaller sections with labels and filters, access task templates, and make a list of to-dos that multiple people can view, use, and collaborate with to help reduce the amount of time you spend delegating tasks to other team members.
5. Trello
Trello is a great project management tool for CEOs to help you organize both your business-related and personal tasks.
The tool organizes projects, tasks, initiatives, and workflows into kanban boards, as well as calendar, map, and timeline views. Users can easily collaborate on tasks by assigning tasks and deadlines to individuals, leaving notes, and assigning to-do lists and checklists for each stage of each project.
Trello also enables you to create card templates for repetitive tasks so that you don’t have to fill in the same information repeatedly, and you can also use labels to prioritize tasks to optimize your productivity.
6. Calendly
Calendly is an appointment and meeting scheduling tool that’s great for CEOs who want to efficiently manage full diaries and maintain a good work-life balance.
The tool integrates with Google Calendar and Microsoft Outlook Calendar and automatically checks your availability to help you schedule meetings without needing to look at your calendar. It also considers different time zones and your colleagues’ schedules to make sure times and dates suit everyone involved.
You can even share a visual of your calendar availability via email which enables others to clearly see only the times and dates you’re free to meet. Plus, you can customize your calendar to show only the instances of your preferred availability — so you can say goodbye to attending meetings over your lunch hour!
Calendly is a great executive app for productivity since it removes the back and forth and the potential for miscommunications that are often involved in scheduling meetings.
7. LastPass
Did you know that we spend an average of 12 full days of our lives searching for the various passwords and usernames we need to access our online accounts? This is a huge time suck for anyone, let alone busy CEOs.
LastPass is a password manager tool that not only stores your login details and passwords but also generates a unique password for every single piece of software that you use to avoid security issues.
Plus, you can share logins with your assistant or whoever else needs access to an online tool without disclosing your password details.
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