Google Docs drives collaboration among team members, you can communicate, discuss more ideas and edit files together via Google Document.
If you are a person who runs projects with a team from different locations or time zones, and your time is almost occupied by busy communication flow from Gmail or Chat. It might bring about information overload leading to miscommunication and frustration. Would it be better if you find a solution tool, the document driven method, where your team members can discuss, and collaborate within one place?
We would recommend Google Docs, the usual famous online document where your team can build, share ideas and make decisions together. As mentioned, you can experience the concept of document driven collaboration where discussions are started from a document so the team can conduct through comments mutually. Just start Google Docs as usual, you can initiate with a brief document. It can be an outline, a proposal, a meeting minute, or even a list of topics/questions.
*The above picture shows a created draft of Meeting Minute via Google Docs.
Moreover, you can share the document to relevant team members (e.g., colleagues, supervisor, subordinators, etc) to begin the discussion. The specific message can be added to notify recipients the topic or related content for better understanding.
*You can share documents with other team members.
Once the document is shared, your team can conduct discussion through comment by using a separate comment thread for each point of discussion. This method is effective when you have several issues as the team can be able to reply to their individual comments.
*While reviewing files, The team can make comments and assign comments to other members.
In case the discussion can’t be resolved in comment, you can invite specific participants to join Google Meet discussing more detail from the document. Simply click on the camera icon, and ask team members to join Meet easily. After all issues are settled, you can resolve all pending comments and update your documents.
*You can call a meeting with a team directly from Google Docs.
Google Docs streamlines collaboration through documents. Team members can brainstorm, share and edit files together in real time. They are able to use comments including join Meet directly from documents to resolve any issues. It can keep things and all tasks moving, expanding richer collaboration.
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