{"id":11413,"date":"2015-12-28T12:18:03","date_gmt":"2015-12-28T10:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.hubgets.com\/?p=11413"},"modified":"2016-12-28T18:17:55","modified_gmt":"2016-12-28T16:17:55","slug":"keeping-team-focused-is-no-secret","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hubgets.com\/blog\/keeping-team-focused-is-no-secret\/","title":{"rendered":"Keeping Your Team Focused Is No Secret &#8211; Meet Topics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every team has its own needs. Take the software industry for example. One team is coding, another is testing, while others are cooking up a marketing campaign. We know from experience that these simply don&#8217;t mix. That&#8217;s why it&#8217;s so useful to use Topics to keep your teams&#8217; communication and collaboration focused on what matters.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_12690\" style=\"width: 860px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12690\" class=\"wp-image-12690 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hubgets.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Keeping-Your-Team-Focused-Is-No-Secret-?-Meet-Topics.jpg\" alt=\"Meet Topics | Hubgets\" width=\"850\" height=\"445\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-12690\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image credits: www.saddlespace.org<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We designed Topics in Hubgets out of our own need to keep the teams focused. Topics can be as open as you want them to be. For things interesting for the entire team a public Topic can be started. Users can leave the discussion at any time or join in as they like. For other subjects that concern only a group of people, create private Topics and invite only selected teammates. Projects can instantly be handled by those involved, while the rest of the communication channels remain open for the entire organization.<\/p>\n<p>We use Topics for things like:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Discussions on projects<\/strong> &#8211; The team assigned on a project is able to discuss about every step of the way and push down the number of meetings and work interruptions.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Reports<\/strong> &#8211; OK, your team has a report. Coffee, coffee, coffee!!! Now go create a Topic so that you won&#8217;t need a meeting for everything you have in that report?:P<\/li>\n<li><strong>HR affairs<\/strong> &#8211; There is a training only some of your teammates should attend. You&#8217;re that thoughtful team player and don&#8217;t want to push everybody. Just open a Topic and select the interested people only.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Birthday preparations<\/strong> &#8211; We&#8217;re always discussing what kind of gift the party girl\/boy would want. With Hubgets, this process has become very collaborative &#8211; create a Topic without inviting <em>the one<\/em>, chat (a lot!) about what to get, then wait for the cookies \ud83d\ude00<\/li>\n<li><strong>Inside-team chatting<\/strong> &#8211; When you want to speak with your entire team, create a team Topic. And this is how <em>SQA daemons<\/em> and <em>Sales angels<\/em> have risen in our Topics feed&#8230;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Knowledge sharing<\/strong> &#8211; The backend team wants to share its knowledge with other devel and SQA teams to make the process smoother. And now we have a Topic called <em>Backend technical questions<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Marketing campaigns<\/strong> &#8211; When marketing wants help from Customer Service and Sales, they open a Topic. No, I won&#8217;t tell you the Topic name in this case, or else they&#8217;ll hunt me down forever &#x1f608;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hubgets.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Topics-screenshot.jpg\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-11422 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hubgets.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Topics-screenshot.jpg\" alt=\"Topic: Transportation to work\" width=\"866\" height=\"866\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hubgets.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Topics-screenshot.jpg 866w, https:\/\/www.hubgets.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Topics-screenshot-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.hubgets.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Topics-screenshot-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hubgets.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Topics-screenshot-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 866px) 100vw, 866px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Topics offer the ability to use tags to stay organized. 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