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LiveMinutes Raises $1.4M, Disrupts Productivity Space with Real-Time Collaboration Platform

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San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) July 23, 2013

LiveMinutes, the real-time team collaboration service, announced the closing of a $ 1.4M seed round led by Great Oaks VC and including notable investors like New World Ventures, Ali Rosenthal, and Sam Yagan. Unlike any other productivity app, LiveMinutes offers a single real-time collaboration platform that includes project management, document editing, and web conferencing.

“LiveMinutes adds real-time collaboration to Evernote’s business collaboration features,” says Rafe Needleman, Evernote’s Director of Developer Relations. “It lets colleagues edit notes in real-time, host conference calls, and save everything back on Evernote to get the most of Evernote. LiveMinutes makes teamwork better for their users and ours.”

LiveMinutes users create a workspace in the app, invite their colleagues, and start collaborating on a project, either asynchronously by leaving comments, or synchronously by launching a conference call. Typical use cases include small start-ups, cross-functional projects in large enterprises, freelancers, and distributed teams working on digital content.

“Our team members are located around the world and are constantly traveling, making real-time communication and productivity a real challenge,” says Starbucks VP Nicolas Bernadi. “We use LiveMinutes to stay in perfect synch. I love their concept of workspace, where we keep project content centralized, edit it in real-time, and send notifications to all stakeholders.”

As a pure HTML5 platform, LiveMinutes runs in any browser with no installation. Teams can start a conference call from their browser, Skype, or even get called on their mobile phone. “Modern teams keep their to-do lists in Basecamp, files on Google Docs, and calls on Skype. LiveMinutes is rewriting enterprise collaboration into a single layer that integrates with great platforms like Evernote or DropBox,” says Kemal El Moujahid, Co-Founder & CEO.

LiveMinutes is backed by leading investors, including Great Oaks VC (backers of Trulia, OkCupid). “I love investing in disruptive companies. Once companies try LiveMinutes they will never go back to plain old screen sharing, web conferencing or tracking changes,” says Sam Yagan, a LiveMinutes board member.







Executive Leadership Training – Productivity Through Effective Delegation

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Executive Leadership Training is in dire need of some fundamental approaches to increasing productivity . Most executive development today is high level and focuses on technical specialties or strategic planning, communications, marketing, etc. What is missing in most cases are fundamental skills and techniques to manage people more effectively. Delivering better project and assignment execution is the Core Competency most needed and often over-looked.

The essential executive skills for faster project execution and increased employee productivity are a result of “Soft Skills” such as delegation. Planning an important project or assignment, delegating the actions effectively and tracking progress to create “Velocity of Execution” for managing people to execute projects and assignments is the key. “Delegation” is the least emphasized and the most important of the soft-skills. Executives and successful managers are assumed to have proficiency in these soft-skills. Most have never received core skill development and have picked things up along the line. This leaves many with gaps in skill and technique that could add to their effectiveness if filled. But in reality this just doesn’t happen. A successful company should not leave soft-skill development to chance.Consider these questions; Where do you get this important leadership training and manager development? What are the key skills and techniques for effective delegation of work? How do you learn to avoid the pitfalls and obstacles to effective delegation? Why are these questions so important? It’s simple. Today’s business and industry organizations place a high value on Executives who can get results through effective time management of important projects and assignments.

Executive mastery of specific soft-skills such as communicating delegation assignments and “Visual Delegation” can have very important impact on effectiveness. Here is a list of just some of these skills and techniques;

1. Visual Delegation skills. 2. Simple, quick and effective assignment tracking 3. The What-When & How procedure.There are a number of related and unique soft-skills that are capable of very significant productivity gains. These skills and techniques and tools for effective delegation are covered in the Management By Delegation program. The lesson for companies and executive development is this; if your Company has a desire to improve the skill and performance of executives managing important projects and assignments through a team of people, need to take responsibility for providing the leadership training needed. Your executives and key managers can’t reach their full potential using the same skills they have today…it just won’t happen.

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FranklinCovey is a global leader in effectiveness training, productivity tools, leadership, productivity, time management , leadership training , executive leadership training , strategy execution, and assessment services for organizations and individuals. FranklinCovey helps companies achieve greatness by unleashing the power of their work forces to focus and execute on top business priorities. Clients include multinationals, mid-sized and small, as well as numerous government entities and educational institutions. Organizations and individuals access FranklinCovey products and services through corporate training and consulting, licensed client facilitators, one-on-one coaching, public workshops and http://www.franklincovey.com.au/

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