Asana: Connecting with Your Team’s Character(s)
Character Defined
Character can be defined as:
One of the aspects that make up a person
A way of distinguishes items into categories
An individual represented in a story
Moral excellence
A magical symbol or emblem
And more! Not all of these are relevant to the discussion here but at the core of all of these definitions is the elements that make up, in most cases, a person - a who (Merriam-webster, n.d.).
Earlier in this blog series I introduced you to Charlie and Cricket who were collaborating on a “Crossing the Road” project. They also appeared in a post about creating project charters with Notion. Since they decided early on to keep it simple and mostly communicate over Microsoft Teams, they haven’t appeared in the rest of the series given their focus on, well, their project!
While they were working on their project, I was thinking about my who, my team, and what they would wants as characters in our digital collaboration narrative.
I’m continuing to explore, but I think the who of a project is best handled by Asana.
What I particularly like about Asana is the ability to message your team in several different ways without even leaving the program.
Asana has a library of tutorial videos on their website, including one that details many of the different ways you can communicate with the characters on your team. I’ll also include some screenshots from the video. Below the text of the video is a tip list of ways to use their features (Asana, n.d.).
Asana doesn’t just take care of the who, but they also have robust options for all the different narrative elements such as an overview section for the theme as discussed in the post about Notion, different ways to view your tasks and timelines as discussed in the post about Microsoft Planner, and plotting tools like Trello’s Kanban style boards as well as other views.
I took a lot of notes while exploring Asana, and I set up a personal account to try out many of their features, but I have not had the chance to use it with my team. That will be my next goal!
Perhaps I should set up a project in Asana to do so . . .
References
Asana. (n.d.). Team communication software for remote and hybrid work • asana. Asana. Retrieved October 7, 2022, from https://asana.com/uses/team-communication
Definition of character. (n.d.). Retrieved October 7, 2022, from https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/character
How to Asana: Improving team communication. (n.d.). Asana Academy. Retrieved October 7, 2022, from https://academy.asana.com/improving-team-communication/401403
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