Coordinating a team to keep everyone up to date and progressing toward your business’s shared goals can pose a challenge. These innovative tools offer centralized spaces to keep the whole crew connected and collaborating, without all the extra back-and-forth.

The first step to collaboration? Keeping everyone in the loop. These apps facilitate streamlined communications without adding extra emails. Join group calls on the go, organize channels to keep project details all in one place, make shared logins accessible for the whole team, and forget taking notes in meetings—Otter can transcribe what was said and offer a quick summary that highlights the action items.

From ideation to execution, your team’s projects will come together more easily with the help of these apps that offer a shared workspace so you can map out concepts, collaborate on notes, track the status of each step, and create and assign to-dos. Try out Monday.com’s various project views—like the table view, Kanban, calendar, or timeline—to find the one that works best for your project.

Keep all your employees’ itineraries sorted with an app that organizes everyone’s shifts—and enables swapping when needed. Stay on top of international teammates’ schedules with a time zone converter, or simplify scheduling group meetings with Calendly’s intuitive on-the-go booking.