And welcome to the Keep Productive YouTube channel its Francesco again and welcome back to another video
So in today's video guys, we're chatting about communication in the workplace
We're going to be talking about the tools and also the two types of communication typically go on in the workplace
I wanted to chat about this because this week is sponsored by Doist
Todoist and Twist are their core products and Twist is something that we've been trying out
And what I wanted to do is talk to you today about
some of the benefits that we've found from using twist and the specific type of communication could
asynchronous communication
Now for a long time now
There's me one main player in the team communication space and that's been Slack now
I view slack for absolutely ages back when I was in the library in
2013 I remember but asking our CEO at flashsticks. Can we use Slack for the team communication?
I've been a big advocate for a long time, but over the last couple of months and especially how my works change
I really wanted to try and focus on karma communication when I'm working remotely
So just to give you a bit of a background I'll keep productive is a really small team right now
It's made up of Alice, Diana and maybe a few more soon and myself
We run blogs and courses - we're a small team and were all based in Europe right now
But we are remote and actually communicating on a regular basis is something that we really value
Now there are two types of communication
asynchronous and synchronous
asynchronous
Communications don't wait around for a reply
So for example, this could be in the form of an email or a message that doesn't necessarily need a response instantly
synchronous communication
Requires parties or components to work simultaneously in real-time. So that would be instantly replying almost like I am
The way to go for us has been asynchronous communication
Synchronous communication has many benefits of course, but asynchronous communication really does respect our time and energy
Now maybe about three months ago. We moved over from slack to twist and we've actually been really enjoying the experience
there are a few ways that twist has helped us in terms of communication to really refine and reduce our
Stress level in the workplace. So the first has been the thread sign of staff
Whereas with slack you have channel inside a twist you have thread threads are more goal orientated
You can set a title to them and you could be a bit more definitive on what you want to complete
so for example
We pretty much have a thread for every article we create and that tends to help us work towards the article and keep the conversation
Relevant net and also you can only nudge the people that are relevant to the conversation, too
So people won't get too many messages in their inbox. The other thing is you've got real-time communication
You've got a synchronous communication and twist, but it's just private. It's available in messages and you can find it there
Twist also has been helpful for time off when we've got our time off vacation indicator on it just means we're off and that's good
Now based on our time zone. I know that Alice finished one hour earlier than me
So twist actually feels a lot more constructive when we're actually even leaving messages for each other now, I'm not anti slack
I'm going to a conference later this month actually all about slack
But slack demands too much of her time and I've really noticed that in the last couple of months slack really demands that synchronous communication
Always being on always checking your channels
It's almost like having loads of those inboxes
But what I found in the last couple of weeks is definitely that twist has been a lot calmer and much more relaxed
There's an article below which you can dive into a bit more detail about twist and how synchronous and asynchronous
Communication works in a better format and hopefully that gives you a bit of an insight again, of course
This video is sponsored by Doist
But again, I'm a user of twist and todoist to list for six years now
And I just wanted to share this video as a good starting point to the rest of the week. Also this week guys
We're releasing all the features of Twist
We're doing a deep dive into it and also doing a feature on how to connect Todoist with Twist
So guys I really hope you benefited from this video. Let me know in the comments what your thoughts are about twist and slack
it'd be great to hear because obviously those are the two main players in the space right now and
Also, feel free to chat about how the way you communicate in the comments. It'd be really great to hear and every guys
Thank you so much for stopping by today. Make sure to hit the like button subscribe and do comment below
I'll see you guys very very soon Cheers