Use each tool for what it does best: Calendar for meetings, Slack for communication, and Productive for planning, tasks, time, and project overview.
Keeping your calendar updated helps us coordinate across projects and teams. It should reflect meetings, remote work, planned absences and other commitments that affect your availability.
Add things in advance when you can, decline meetings you cannot attend, block focus time when needed, and remove anything that is no longer happening.
If something is already planned and visible in your calendar, you won’t need to announce it separately on Slack. Slack is helpful for acute changes, quick coordination and unexpected situations, not for rediscovering information that already exists elsewhere.
Productive is used for workflow bookings and absence registration, not for checking where people are or whether they are on holiday next Thursday. Your calendar should give others a clear picture of when you are away.
It also helps to add relevant colleagues’ calendars in Outlook, so availability is easy to check before creating the next calendar-shaped problem.
A useful calendar saves everyone a surprising amount of detective work.
At Make, clarity is about saying what we mean, setting direction and making things understandable – for clients, for teams and for each other. When things make sense, people can focus. And when people can focus, great work happens.
Clarity creates the mental, creative and strategic space for:
It’s both operational and human.
When things are unclear, energy drains away – people hesitate, second-guess, and work around each other. Clarity does the opposite. It aligns expectations, reduces friction and makes it easier to move forward together.
