6 ways to increase team productivity with Infogram

Productivity doesn’t come easy. In fact, according to the Voucher Cloud survey, the average employee is only productive for around 2 hours and 53 minutes in an 8-hour working day.

Even if your team is determined to get the job done on time, there are other factors besides motivation that strongly influence productivity. Imagine: You have to create an infographic for an article, but you don’t have the graphic design skills to get it done in time, or you need to create a presentation with the latest business stats, but you’re having trouble selecting the right charts. Perhaps your team needs to work on the same project, but you’re having technical difficulties with sharing information. These situations not only cause stress but also reduce your productivity.

While many factors contribute to productivity, the tools you use have a great impact on your workflow. You want technology to automate repetitive processes, improve collaboration, and fill in knowledge gaps. For example, if you’re publishing a news article with an infographic on environmental politics, you don’t want to spend time learning graphic design to create an eye-catching visual. You want to focus on the content and use data visualization tools to create visual content. That’s where Infogram can help you. 

Keep reading to discover 6 ways Infogram can increase your team’s productivity. 

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#1 Increase productivity with a team plan
#2 Collaborate in real time
#3 Select or create templates
#4 Import data in no time
#5 Find anything with a click of a button
#6 Download and share projects 

How to increase productivity

#1 Increase team productivity with a team plan

Productivity in a team highly depends on effective collaboration. If multiple people work on the same project or towards the same goal, transparent communication and collaboration are crucial. Whether each person is responsible for a specific task within a project or you’re all working together on the same tasks, you need to adopt effective collaboration strategies that come with supportive tools. 

Imagine: You need to create a presentation on the latest marketing or sales stats. Instead of each team member sending in their stats or creating different slides or charts, they can easily collaborate in one space. With Infogram, you can enable this feature by signing up for a Team or Enterprise account. 

With Infogram’s team plan, you can have multiple people in your company or organization collaborating on infographics, presentations, reports, and other data visualization projects. Furthermore, you can create more than one team, like marketing, sales, and graphic design, and define different access levels for team members according to each person’s needs. It will ease the collaboration process across teams and members. 

If you have specific brand guidelines, you can create team templates, so all created content aligns with established design guidelines.

#2 Collaborate in real time

Sometimes, you can’t do it all alone. There are multiple people involved in a project, and you need someone from the sales team to fill in the blanks on your business report, informative infographic, or any other project.

Instead of emailing back and forth, you can simply collaborate in real-time. With the real-time collaboration feature, share projects with multiple team members and see who is editing what in your project. This feature saves precious time and increases team productivity. 

The real-time collaboration feature is available in the Infogram team’s plan, and it’s one of the best ways to increase work productivity in your team.

#3 Select or create templates

Graphic design is not everyone’s forte. If you’re creating an infographic, you don’t need design skills to make it look visually appealing. Also, spending hours learning and trying to figure out the best color scheme for your projects can drain your energy and reduce productivity. 

That is why pre-designed templates are great when time is of the essence. Anyone in your team can create beautiful data visualizations without prior graphic design knowledge. 

On Infogram, there’s a great selection of infographics, presentations, reports, social media posts, dashboards, and many other templates your team can use. Let’s say you’re having a team get-together, and you’d like to create an e-invite – select one of the poster designs and just edit the content! Or, if your team is working on educational articles where infographics would come in handy, choose from a great range of infographic templates and simply edit the content. 

Also, you can create templates according to your brand design guidelines and use them whenever needed (available for Enterprise and Team accounts). 

With this option, you’ll increase team productivity while saving time and resources when creating eye-catching content.

Explore all templates here!

#4 Import data in no time

Have you ever struggled with exporting and importing data? It’s difficult enough to find and scan over a massive data file. That’s why fast and easy data integrations are crucial. The last thing you want is to manually enter your data to create a simple chart. 

Thankfully, you don’t need to worry about transferring a large data file to Infogram. There are multiple data integration options. You can upload an xls, xlsx, or cvs file or choose to add a file from Google Drive, Dropbox, JSON, MySQL, Oracle, and many other sources. In a matter of seconds, you’ll have your data imported into your data viz project. 

Fast and easy data integrations will increase productivity and enable you to better organize your time.

#5 Find anything with a click of a button

In today’s information-abundant digital environment, it’s becoming more difficult to find exactly what you need. Have you ever spent hours and hours finding the right image for your blog post or the right visual for an infographic? Even if you do find the right image, there are still copyright laws, and most likely you’ll need to purchase it to use it. 

Luckily, Infogram has an extensive content library with images, video covers, stickers, GIFs, headers, and much more that you can use for whatever projects you have in mind. Whether that’s a sticker in an infographic for a news article, an image in a presentation for investors, a video cover for a social media post, or anything else – Infogram has it all. 

With the search function, you can browse visual content. The one-stop library is an essential feature that helps increase team productivity and create stunning projects.

#6 Download and share projects

Once your team has created a project, they’re ready to share it with the world. But what if they’re not sure how to integrate it into the blog? Or what if you’re having trouble sharing it with other team members? 

Sometimes, embedding an infographic into different CMS or sharing them on social or other platforms can be challenging. You don’t want to spend time trying to figure out how to embed it on WordPress or elsewhere, especially if time is of the essence. 

With Infogram’s download and share options, you’ll have no trouble sharing your projects across different websites and platforms. Once your project is ready, download a version that works for you – PNG, JPG, PDF, ZIP, or other. Or, you can share it via a link, embed it, or even create a tracking link to track your project’s performance (such as views, engagements, demographics, and other metrics). 

The wide range of options will ensure that you and your team stay productive and waste no time with technicalities.  

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Today’s digital environment is saturated with different types of tools and information, so it’s difficult to recognize what saves time versus what wastes it. Understanding your team’s needs is crucial when choosing the right tools to help you save time, increase productivity, and improve workflow.

When it comes to data visualizations, some people need inspiration and ideas while others need endless possibilities and great data integration options. Whatever your requirements are, explore how Infogram can help you with creating the best projects in an easy-to-understand yet comprehensive manner.

Check out Infogram’s plans to get a better overview of options and explore the possibilities on Infogram’s template library.

Interested in discovering how Infogram can enhance your team’s work? Join a brief Zoom session with our Infogram representative to explore key features, get answers to your questions, and understand how we can assist. It’s quick, informative, and just like a coffee break chat. Schedule your call now!