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Effective task management is essential to completing any project successfully whether working solo or with a team. Central Desktop has several features that make the task management process much more efficient and convenient for individuals and teams.

1. Daily Task Planning
At the end of the work day, take the time to review the day's accomplishments, cross them off of your list and plan your work for the next day.

Central Desktop allows teams to keep all of the tasks for a particular project in a single location, giving all of the team members’ visibility into each other’s task list, so there is no reason to wonder who is doing what.

2. Identify Tasks
It's helpful to periodically do a 'brain dump' and make a list of all of the tasks that you must complete. Do a mental scan of all of your projects so that you can capture everything.

3. Limit tasks to a single action item
Break larger task down to their simplest form-- a single action item that can be completed in one sitting.

4. Prioritize
Give each task a priority. You can't complete them all in a day, and some tasks are contingent on the completion of a previous task.

5. Assign Due Dates
Once tasks are in their priority order assign due dates to them to help you track the status of a project against the project's major milestones.

The Calendar feature on Central Desktop allows individuals and teams to monitor events, tasks and milestones alongside other important dates to help keep things in perspective. The calendar also serves to remind team members when tasks are coming due.

6. Separate tasks into Categories
Establish a set of categories that correspond to the project's characteristics and assign certain tasks to the appropriate category.

7. Celebrate Important Project Milestones
Achieving important project milestones is a great excuse to celebrate the progress you are making on the overall project.

Using the milestones feature helps teams meet project deadlines because it provides a visual way to break complex projects into achievable tasks. Team members can see who owns each task and they can track when and how the completion of these tasks helps the team achieve important project milestones.

Central Desktop makes task management for teams virtually effortless so that they can focus their energies on actually getting the work done.

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The author, Tia Jones, is a freelance writer who contributes articles on collaboration software and project management for Central Desktop. For more information on how businesses can use collaboration software to increase productivity and improve project management visit http://www.CentralDesktop.com.

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