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Track your progress, see what you’ve done 2008-05-07 20:56:58 When you’re managing your weekly priorities and getting things done, its good to look back over the week as it comes to an end, and over the last few weeks and see what you and your team have actually done. We’ve just added in simple progress
tracking on team members, so you can look over [...] Read more:Track
Staying on top of Contacts 2008-05-10 07:18:16 I remember a time when it was easy to stay in touch with everyone I wanted to, if I met someone interesting, I stayed in contact and kept naturally kept the communication going.
Can’t stay in touch with everyone
But nowadays this just isn’t possible, and above is just one stack of cards from the past [...] Read more:Contacts
PlanHQ on Business is Booming TV Show 2008-05-13 21:13:29 We did a small segment in a TV series in New Zealand last year called Business
is Booming which gives advice and tells stories of small businesses. We’ve only just got this video of the 3 minute segment on where businesses go wrong with business plans and how PlanHQ gets you to achieve your plans [...]
Reports Update - Our Plan and Our Progress 2008-05-16 01:19:14 We’ve just made some updates to PlanHQ reporting to make it easier to see your overall business plan and your progress against this plan.
Our Plan Tab
The our Plan Tab is a simple view of your strategy, your goals and your financial forecast across your whole business, or for any particular area.
Our Progress Tab
The Our Progress [...] Read more:Update
PlanHQ’s Method takes care of the madness 2008-05-18 18:09:40 An Article in Wellington’s Dominion Post talks about how PlanHQ helps teams work together on setting the businesses goals and making them happen.
Sailing the world and generating power 2008-05-18 20:01:17 I had the pleasure this weekend of sailing around the Wellington Harbour with captain Glenn Andert and his partner Pamela in the learjet that he’s been sailing for the last 3 years around the pacific between home #1 in California and his new home with Pamela at #2 - New Zealand.
(The bend in the windmill [...] Read more:Sailing
, generating
, power
Building Communities 2008-05-22 09:39:06 You, your business, you’re part of a bigger eco-system. You rely on having good peers, mentors and advisors, you always need good people, you need networks, and you need to be heard and talked about. And you have a whole lot that can help others around you.
So what is the fabric that weaves these needs [...] Read more:Building
, Communities
PlanHQ in sync with ical, google calendar and your iphone 2008-05-22 06:13:55 If you live by your calendar being with you everywhere, then you’ll know how much you need your Business Management and Getting things done tools like PlanHQ to play with your other calendars; on your computer, on the web and on your phone. If you’re not already using it, get your PlanHQ plan pushing out [...]
Koz at Railsconf 08 in Portland next week 2008-05-22 06:12:23 It’s that time of year again, and PlanHQ co-founder and CTO and Rails core team member Koz will be in Portland next week speaking at O’reilly Railsconf. If you’re in the Rails community you’ll know who Koz is, but if you’re looking at doing something with PlanHQ and in the area, then try and connect [...]
Getting a deal signed sealed and delivered 2008-05-28 04:40:48 I just got a email and photo from my good friend Tom Stokell who’s been working hard for the last year in the UK to secure the first deal for his business, which helps get more people cycling to work by getting businesses to challenge each other in a cycling to work competition. The program [...]
New Blog Design coming soon… 2008-06-02 23:46:19 We’ve been working on our blog strategy and design over the last while, as we get more of a focus on building communities, and 2 major things are going to happen. The first is getting a focus by cutting the blogs into 2; one for PlanHQ product and company related stuff, and the 2nd make [...]
Fitting in with Googles vision of the web office 2008-06-02 10:20:42 I’ve been fortunate enough to spend a little time over the past few days with Google Business Development Manager Tom Duterme, as he’s been chatting to and giving advice to a bunch of online companies at the XMedia Lab conference held in our home town in Silicon Welly and talking about what google looks for [...] Read more:Googles
, vision
, office
PlanHQ at Apple Developers Conference 2008-06-02 10:18:14 Jeremy is on his way to the AppleDevelopers
conference for next week, which should be great fun for him, if you’re around the conference, drop him a line jeremy at planhq dot com.
Although there’s still a few days to go, Steve Jobs won’t be announcing PlanHQ as Apple major partner, although I think if [...]
World Environment Day 2008-06-04 09:13:35 It’s WorldEnvironment
Day tomorrow, and our home base Wellington, New Zealand is this years host country and city. You’d hope this was an everyday thing really in our lives, but for now having a day marked for it is a chance to have a wakeup call and remind ourselves and the people around us [...]
Private Goals now available in PlanHQ 2008-06-04 03:18:47 We’ve made PlanHQ relatively open to your team by default, to encourage a culture of transparency and accountability, where everyone knows whats going on and gets on with making it happen. As more medium sized or larger small businesses come on board, we’ve continued to put in additional security so that managers can let all [...] Read more:Private
, Goals
, available
Managers and Staff Member Security Roles in PlanHQ 2008-06-04 02:55:58 We’ve simplified the security roles in PlanHQ so you can get your whole team involved and limit who sees what that when you add a team member you can make them either:
Manager: Has unrestricted access. They can view and manage all the company data, including financials, others private goals and reports
StaffMember
s: Restricted access - [...] Read more:Managers
Achieving Goals Regularly 2008-06-09 05:11:28 Its one thing to get things done and eat through your action or task lists, but it really feels good when all that work leads to achieving a goal.
Achieving Goals
Regularly
Goals can be set at many different levels, in PlanHQ some people set their long term strategic goals, but most set short and medium term [...]
How to Achieve Goals in 5 Steps 2008-07-04 01:47:43 1. Visualize life on the other side
If you want to achieve a goal, you’ve got to really see and feel the way life will be when its achieved. Goals
define a point where things clearly change, a point in time where you know you’ll be able to do things differently because of the platform [...]
Achieving Goals Regularly 2008-06-09 05:11:28 Its one thing to get things done and eat through your action or task lists, but it really feels good when all that work leads to achieving a goal.
Achieving Goals
Regularly
Goals can be set at many different levels, in PlanHQ some people set their long term strategic goals, but most set short and medium term [...]
New Make it Happen Blog Design Live 2008-07-14 23:32:07 Been a little quite on blogging for the last few weeks, not due to lack of action thats for sure, awesome things happening across the business, been in a business TV show, heaps of new features at the request of customers and plenty of new happy customers on board. If you’ve popped into the site [...]
Building a Virtual Team and a Green Business 2008-07-28 07:03:52 There are huge advantages of running your business virtually. When you build your business around people and outcomes, instead of an office, you focus on making your business very transparent, goal focused and systematic, so you get some amazing benefits.
Its easy to plug new people into the team and get them productive
You’re lightweight (low cost [...] Read more:Green
, Building
, Business
Organising Your Email Communication Around Goals and Action 2008-07-28 05:55:21 We all get overloaded with email, its so easy to send a message, that often all we do is drown each other in fragmented communication, but then we’ve all got to find the action in the message and make stuff happen!
The best emails are ones that drive action and outcomes, so in PlanHQ we keep [...] Read more:Organising
, Email
, Goals
, Action
Super Quick Action Re-sheduling 2008-07-28 05:55:04 As you and your team move through your week and month ahead, you re-prioritize and re-schedule as new opportunities arise, your focus becomes clearer, and you get a feel for how much you’ll still be able to do by the weeks end, so your productivity and management tools need to make this process super [...] Read more:Action
, Super
, Quick
Start-Up TV and helping Start-Ups 2008-07-28 05:52:26 Starting businesses is a massive challenge, and there’s a few things you learn that help you stay on the path to success. Having a plan and achieving goals, building up experiences and sharing in those of others.
PlanHQ already helps plenty of Start-Ups, entrepreneurs flesh their plan out and keep their team on track and achieve [...] Read more:Start
Making it a killer month 2008-07-27 17:26:46 Once you start to become a master of your week and you’re managing your weekly workload as a team, you want to get a better handle in whats happening in detail for the month ahead, so can make it a killer month.
We’ve made it easy for you and your team to track your weekly progress, [...]
Your company Plan and Automating Progress Reporting 2008-08-11 23:48:03 We’ve got some major changes in the pipeline to the way you view your company
plan and generate automate, progress reports against this plan. This is something up and coming that we want your input on, so let us know your thoughts.
Here are the initial design concepts we’ve done. (click on them to zoom). We’ve [...] Read more:Automating
, Reporting
PlanHQ Roadmap - Have your say 2008-08-11 23:17:32 PlanHQ Roadmap
We get a lot f feedback from customers and we continue to tune PlanHQ to be super useful for achieving goals. We’ve recently added a section to this blog called Product Roadmap.
We’ll be posting what major product goals we have coming up and whats recently been achieved. We also make lots of little tweaks, [...]
Search your plan 2008-09-25 04:20:19 This week we’ve gone live with a new feature for PlanHQ that allows you to search within your plan for any text in a goal, action item or the name of a file upload (including comments and updates on these). Several of you have asked for this, to help you find things inside your busy [...] Read more:Search
PlanHQ makes achieving Business Plans easier 2008-09-21 19:21:33 ReadWriteWeb did a brilliant review of PlanHQ 4 weeks ago about how PlanHQ makesachieving
your business plans easier. We’ve had a lot of activity and signups from this review, I could comment, but best you just check it our for yourself!
Read Write Web PlanHQ Read more:Business
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