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Supercharge your Slack Productivity

By : Moshe Markovich
Book Image

Supercharge your Slack Productivity

By: Moshe Markovich

Overview of this book

Slack is an online communication tool that allows workplace teams to collaborate efficiently, effectively, and securely. It’s the leading channel-based messaging platform used by millions to align their teams, unify their systems, and drive their businesses forward. As a developer, you can use Slack to create tools such as bots that handle and maintain routine and time-consuming tasks. If you’re looking to set up a Slack workplace or build a Slack bot or app, this is the book for you. In this book, you’ll explore scenarios that show you how to set up a Slack workplace, build a Slack bot, or integrate your favorite tools. You’ll also learn how Slack can help you create a more collaborative, efficient, and coordinated work environment from any location. As you advance through the chapters, you'll find out how to manage your tasks and boost your business productivity by automating the trivial tasks. You'll also cover more advanced features such as using a Slack bot to complete tasks, including automating message responses and accessing personal reminders. By the end of this Slack book, you'll have learned how to use Slack effectively to communicate with your team and build bots and have gained a solid understanding of how the platform can help you to progress in your industry.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
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Section 1: Slack Overview
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Section 2: How to Use Third-Party Applications and Bots
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Section 3: How to Build Your Own Bots

Improving company culture with Slack

Company culture is crucial to growing a robust and successful team. Understanding the company's mission and its values (and how they come to life through action) places teams into a higher level of alignment for the roller coaster of growth ahead.

There's a reason you hear so much about thriving companies with a great culture, such as Google, and those that combust because of a negative one, such as Away. The bottom line is that company culture makes or breaks your business. In this section, we will look at how we can improve our company culture.

Why Slack is an optimal cultural tool

You don't need to drop everything right now to build out your vision and values, although, in time, it's not a bad idea to get them on paper. Culture can start simply by creating spaces that allow for open communication, entertaining encounters, and honest feedback.

Slack is an amazing and easy way to improve your company culture because...